In 2013, Baz Luhrmann brought his adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel, “The Great Gatsby,” to the big screen. For the high society epic, he cast Leonardo DiCaprio as the titular character and put Carey Mulligan alongside him as Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby’s love interest. Narrating the film as Nick Carraway was Tobey Maguire, one of DiCaprio’s closest friends whom he had worked with before in the 1993 film, “This Boy’s Life.”
The British actor had some apprehension about working with two men who appeared to be so close but she was pleasantly surprised by their conduct on set. “Initially, I thought it was going to be a bit of a boys club, but they weren’t like that at all,” Mulligan told Entertainment Tonight. “They were so sweet and so involving, and so hard working … so serious, very conscientious, but so fun and silly at the same time,
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Mulligan and DiCaprio had to kiss on screen, which she also had reservations about. However, she eventually became very comfortable with the act. “It’s funny because when you’re actually doing it — as a 12-year-old I probably would have been like, ‘What is the 27-year-old [version of myself] doing?’ It’s actually weird, sort of awkward, kissing someone for the first time, and then it’s just run of the mill,” she said.
