Carey Mulligan insisted on watching 'Wicked' alone at first
Carey Mulligan refused to watch 'Wicked' with her husband and children at first.
The 39-year-old actress and her Mumford and Sons lead singer spouse, Marcus Mumford, 38, have three children together - Evelyn, nine, Wilfred, seven, and a baby daughter whose name and sex have not been publicly revealed - and Carey wanted to see the musical fantasy film first because she was "very excited" but wanted to determine if the children would find it boring.
Carey told Ed Gamble, 39, and James Acaster, 40, on the 'Off Menu' podcast: "I went to 'Wicked' on my own, and Marcus took the children because I wanted to experience it without my children.
"I don't want to be sitting there thinking like, is this scary, or is this boring to them?
"So, I went on with my friends."
Carey "loved" the Jon M. Chu adaptation of the hit musical, which tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, and stars Cynthia Erivo, 38, as the film's protagonist, Elphaba, and Ariana Grande, 31, as the Good Witch of the North, Glinda.
And she eventually took her kids to watch movie too, but she made sure to take them each in turn.
'The Ballad of Wallis Island' star said: "I then took them separately to see it, to be fair.
"But I wanted the first time because I was very excited about 'Wicked', and I loved it."
Carey also revealed how she has given food nicknames, based on how one of her and Marcus' children pronounces them.
Asked by comedian Ed if she had anything from her family that she calls "weird things", 'The Great Gatsby' actress revealed: "Well, just because of the children, sausages became ooze ooze. just because one of them couldn't say it."
"You know, it's where all the nicknames come from. It's you just - they can't say it. So, they make up their own things."
Carey and Marcus welcomed their youngest daughter in 2023, and she said that year the tot is a "10 out of 10 so far".
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the Variety Power of Women Los Angeles gala on November 16, 2023, she said: "Oh, she's great. Great. Good baby, 10 out of 10, so far. We'll see how long that lasts."
And Carey was "very happy" when fellow actress Emily Blunt, 42, who has Hazel, 11, and Violet, eight, with her husband John Krasinski, 45, "stole" her baby for "a good 20 minutes" to cuddle her.
She quipped: "She stole my baby for a good 20 minutes, and I was very happy with that."
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