London: Actress Carey Mulligan says she was in tears after filming an attempted suicide scene for her new movie Shame.
The 26-year-old plays the troubled younger sister of a sex addict portrayed by Michael Fassbender in the film, reported Contactmusic.
Mulligan said she originally wasn’t affected by the controversial scene, in which her character tries to slash her wrists, but was later devastated at how hopeless her character felt.
“I was sitting there and this fake blood was pumping out of my arms and I was in this completely hopeless state with a kitchen knife next to me. And it was horrible, it was really horrible and I wasn’t expecting it, it was a complete surprise, and I felt awful.
“I felt devastated and I felt so sad. And I’m fine. I’m great and well adjusted and everything’s cool, but just the idea of being that helpless and that lonely, it was just really sad. I got into the taxi at the end of the day and I couldn’t stop crying,” Mulligan said.
The actress also explained she was initially against doing a fully frontal nude scene in the film but came to understand it was necessary for the role.
“I’ve never, never been naked in a film before; I’ve been topless once or twice, but always in sort of very innocent ways. And I’ve always been sort of staunchly feminist about it, I’ve never relished the idea of doing it, and never if it was inappropriate or gratuitous in any way.
“But I just felt it was absolutely right; that’s exactly who she was.” (PTI)
