In new rape-revenge film Promising Young Woman, Carey Mulligan flexes her chameleonic acting abilities with an array of striking beauty transformations.
How Promising Young Woman Uses Bold, Candy-Colored Beauty to Further Its Powerful Message
Carey Mulligan is no stranger to transformation. But in Promising Young Woman, a new rape-revenge film from Fleabag season 2 showrunner Emerald Fennell, the English actress flexes her chameleonic acting abilities with an array of striking beauty nuances.
In the twisted thriller, which evocatively takes on sexual assault in the post-#MeToo era, Mulligan plays Cassie, the film’s “promising young woman,” who dropped out of medical school after her best friend’s brutal rape and is dealing with her trauma by seeking out vengeance on evil men (most fervently those hiding beneath the “nice guy” facade). During a typical act of vengeance, Cassie, who lives with her parents and has a barista job at a bubblegum pink coffee shop by day, transforms herself at night, playing to the male gaze and baiting predators before flipping the switch and, quite literally, catching them with their pants down.
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Lauren Valenti
