Carey Mulligan reveals she lip-synced with Britney Spears for a scene – Daily Mail

Carey Mulligan has revealed she ticked one off the ‘bucket list’ by lip-syncing with Britney Spears in her new movie, Promising Young Woman. 

The actress, 35, explained she performed alongside the pop princess, 39, to a Paris Hilton song in a ‘fun’ scene’ for her latest ‘dark’ cinematic offering. 

Speaking on Friday night’s forthcoming episode of The Graham Norton Show, Carey says: ‘It’s so good to be in a film that is so dark, but fun at the same time.

‘Britney Spears is in it and there is a whole scene where we lip sync to Paris Hilton – a bucket list thing for me!’

The mother-of-two called the film ‘hard to describe’ but added that the script was the ‘best’ she had read. 

She says: ‘It is the best script I had read. It is amazing and it’s so many things – romantic comedy, thriller, revenge road movie. It’s really hard to describe.

‘It’s full of comedians – I am the only person who’s not funny in the whole thing and on the third day of filming, I was like, “Is this your life all the time, just laughing? What have I been doing? Just terribly sad films!” It was great and I had so much fun.’    

Carey looked glamorous on the show wearing an elegant black dress with puff sleeves and high neck, with a piece cut out across her chest to amplify her petite frame. 

She styled her blonde shoulder-length hair in effortless waves, adding a pink lip to highlight her features.  

Carey’s upcoming film was premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival last year, and members of the audience erupted in anger. 

Promising Young Woman, released in the UK shortly, dares to suggest a very uncomfortable truth – that women are just as violent, ruthless and full of rage as men. 

Already hotly tipped for an Oscar, the film has been described as ‘Thelma & Louise for the #MeToo generation’, after the 1991 road movie which showed two women taking the law into their own hands following a sex attack. 

Promising Young Woman is written and directed by society beauty Emerald Fennell, who was the talented nurse Patsy Mount in the BBC’s Call The Midwife and plays Camilla Parker Bowles in the latest controversial series of Netflix’s The Crown.

The film features Cassie, played by Mulligan, a 30-year-old medical school dropout on a mission to avenge her best friend’s rape and subsequent suicide. 

By day, she has a dead-end job in a cafe but at night, in various bars and clubs, she pretends to be intoxicated to pick up men who see her as an easy target. 

They soon learn differently, as Cassie callously dispenses her own rough justice.

Also on Friday’s episode of The Graham Norton Show is James Norton talking about his new film Nowhere Special, in which he plays a dying father preparing his young son for a life without him. 

Neil Patrick Harris, who joins Graham from Long Island, promotes his ‘gut wrenching and emotional’ new 80s serial It’s a Sin.  

Another star joins the show remotely, as Camille Cottin video called from Paris to chat about season four of her hit TV show Call My Agent.  

Footballer-turned-pundit Ian Wright also features in the line-up, and talks about his new podcast Ian Wright’s Everyday People.