Carey Mulligan: ‘Anyone who says awards don’t matter is 100 per cent lying’

In a private suite on the first floor of a swish central London hotel, right next to an ornate sofa, Carey Mulligan is emulating an ungainly physical stance that she calls “mid-squat”. She did it first at last year’s Bafta awards, when her name was announced, incorrectly it eventually transpired, as the winner of the best actress gong for her role in the #MeToo drama She Said. You didn’t see it, of course, because the gaffe was cut from the BBC broadcast, but the 38-year-old Maestro star recreates it today, in between snorts and chuckles, as the comedy highlight of the night. She remembers mostly being frozen to the spot, not quite standing and not quite sitting, while her agent beside her mouthed the