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Article: Life lessons captured on film
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 28, 2009
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ARTS: HOLLYWOOD LORE is full of stories of stars who were
discovered in unusual places. Lana Turner was supposedly spotted in
a soda shop; Harrison Ford got his break making cabinets for George
Lucas. English actress Carey Mulligan, however, owes her
professional career to a school talk by the actor and Oscar-winning
screenwriter Julian Fellowes, writes ANNA CAREY
"Julian gave a talk at my school when I was 17 aboutGosford
Parkand winning an Oscar," says Mulligan, who is now 24. "I met him
after that very briefly and said I wanted to be an actor and he
said, 'go and marry a lawyer'. So that," she adds dryly, "was
brilliant. Very helpful."
Later, however, Fellowes offered Mulligan some more ...