OHMYGOSSIP — Carey Mulligan was so “excited to work alongside her friend of ten years” Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘Wildlife’.
The 33-year-old actress plays Jeanette Brinson, a woman who struggles to cope when her husband Jerry (Gyllenhaal) leaves to fight a forest fire, in the Paul Dano directed flick and she admits it was a great thrill to get to shoot a movie with her pal.
Speaking on The Empire Film Podcast, Mulligan said: “You meet this sort of this classic American family and it seems like a dutiful 50s housewife and their sweet son. Then the husband leaves to fight this forest fire and she starts to unravel and you kind of, page to page, don’t know what direction she’s going to go in, and that was quite exciting to play.
“I love that you’re seeing someone really f***ing everything up because, we just don’t see that in women on screen, we just see great saintly dutiful women doing the right thing, and it’s just not true.
“We were in the set of our house – where a lot of the film was shot – and it felt like we were rehearsing the night before we shot the scene and all that, we kind of just had to wing it, which is fine!
“Jake and I have known each other for 10 years and so we kind of knew how to work together and we had a little bit of night-before rehearsal when we got there.”
The ‘Great Gatsby’ star – who has three-year-old daughter Evelyn with her musician husband Marcus Mumford – confessed that working with actor-turned-director Dano on his first project was nerve-wracking and “intimidating” at first.
Mulligan added: “It was different for me and I was kind of nervous from the beginning and I was sort of intimidated by his work. His work is so instinctive and he’s really honest and everything he does is honest and truthful. There is a scene where Jake goes to go and fight the fire and we have this enormous row and we took a day to shoot it. We got half way through and we got a bit stuck, and he identified it immediately and sort of fixed the problem, where I think maybe a director who didn’t understand the process may have pushed it or tried to approach it in a different way.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Nadine Coyle still believes Girls Aloud will reunite “when the time is right”.
The 33-year-old singer – who recently admitted she never had a friendship with her bandmates – isn’t in contact with Cheryl, Nicola Roberts, Sarah Harding or Kimberley Walsh at the moment and though it’s been five years since they went their separate ways, she believes they’ll get on stage together again one day in the future.
She said: “I would never say never to that particular scenario – it would just have to mean that everything is right. I’m sure that at some point, whenever the time is right, we’ll make something happen.”
Explaining her lapsed relationships with the other girls, Nadine claims she finds it hard to find the time to make contact with the rest of the ‘Biology’ hitmakers.
Speaking to Closer magazine, she said: “It’s difficult enough to see your own friends and family and do the world you need to do, you know without widening that too much.”
But the ‘Insatiable’ singer doesn’t have any hard feelings towards her former bandmates and will always defend them.
She said: “I would never let anyone say anything bad about the girls – you just wish the best for everybody and that they’re happy.
“I’m very supportive of all of them and everything they do – all of their ventures, whether it be music or acting or motherhood. In general, I wish them all the happiness.”
Nadine previously claimed the rest of the group disliked her because she was always given more vocals.
She said: “A thing that did cause stress in the band was the fact that I was given more lines and the girls didn’t like Brian [Higgins, Girls Aloud collaborator and the mastermind behind pop production team Xenomania] as a result of it.
“They didn’t like the label as a result of it, and they didn’t like me as a result of it. So it was just circumstances which were out of my control: I didn’t decide who sang what. But I love my life and I just get on with it.”
Kimberley – who just this week refuted Nadine’s claims the fivesome didn’t get along – previously teased that the ‘Call The Shots’ hitmakers could reform in 2022 to mark the 20th anniversary of their creation on TV talent show ‘Popstars: The Rivals’.
She said: “It may be something that will happen in the future – maybe for the 20th. If the planets collided and it was the right time, then definitely.”

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