Carey Mulligan Was 'So Lucky' to Make Film Debut in 'Magical' "Pride & Prejudice" 20 Years Ago Victoria EdelNovember 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM 0 Moviestore/Shutterstock; Aliah Anderson/Getty Carey Mulligan in 'Pride & Prejudice' (left); Carey Mulligan in 2024 (right) Carey Mulligan opened up about making Pride & Prejudice, which was her film debut Mulligan played Kitty Bennet, the secondyoungest Bennet sister Mulligan explained that making the movie felt "magical" and "majestic" Not every actress gets to make their film debut in one of the most beloved movies of the last two decades.
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Victoria EdelNovember 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Carey Mulligan opened up about making Pride & Prejudice, which was her film debut
Mulligan played Kitty Bennet, the second-youngest Bennet sister
Mulligan explained that making the movie felt "magical" and "majestic"
Not every actress gets to make their film debut in one of the most beloved movies of the last two decades. Not every actress is Carey Mulligan.
Mulligan reflected on the 20th anniversary of Pride & Prejudice, which hit theaters in the U.S. on Nov. 23, 2005, in a video posted by Letterboxd on Nov. 10. Mulligan, now 40, played Kitty Bennet in the film, the fourth of the five Bennet sisters alongside Rosamund Pike as Jane, Keira Knightley as Elizabeth, Talulah Riley as Mary and Jena Malone as the youngest, Lydia. Donald Sutherland and Brenda Blethyn played Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.
"I was so lucky to get that job," the actress said. "I think that's what always comes back to me is, we talk about luck a lot in this job, and it is so true that if you just — there's a little twist of fate, that means you happen to be in the right room at the right time. And getting to be part of that was what gave me a career."
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Jena Malone (left) and Carey Mulligan in 'Pride & Prejudice'
She also called her castmates "so dear to me." Mulligan reunited with both Pike and Knightley in the years after; Pike had a supporting role in Mulligan's breakout, 2009's An Education, and Mulligan reunited with Knightley in 2010's Never Let Me Go.
Mulligan called Pride & Prejudice "a big first job out of the gate," but said she was "so protected" because she was a "small part of a big machine." Kitty is one of the smaller roles in the film (though still an indelible part of the Bennet family). She said she particularly relished getting to learn from her more seasoned castmates.
"So I feel incredibly lucky to have started in that place where I could sort of be in the shadows, but witness brilliance around me," she said. "There was so much heart in it," she said, calling out director Joe Wright for creating "a real sense of family."
"I remember Joe took us to the house with the sisters, and we spent a day just playing hide-and-seek and sardines in the house to try to make it feel like it was our house," she said. "And there was so much done to make it feel like we had kind of ownership of the story, or of these characters."
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From left: Jena Malone, Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike, Brenda Blethyn, Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley in 'Pride & Prejudice'
"And the experience was just like, it was a cast of people between the age of 18 and 25," she said, "just getting to live together in various hotels in the British countryside for a summer. It was magical."
It was so magical, in fact, that Mulligan was shocked when she got her next job. "Why isn't it as fun?" she thought. "I was so confused. I thought all films forever were just going to be completely glorious. But it was."
"We were all young and excited about the job and just loved each other and were having so much fun," she said. "And it's a timeless story. It's so romantic."
Pride & Prejudice also starred Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy, Simon Woods as Mr. Bingley, Rupert Friend as Mr. Wickham, Tom Hollander as Mr. Collins, Claudie Blakley as Charlotte Lucas, Kelly Reilly as Caroline Bingley and Judi Dench as Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
Pride & Prejudice was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $120 million worldwide, though some nitpicked at the film for not being entirely accurate to Jane Austen's original book. It was also the first major adaptation after the widely beloved 1995 BBC miniseries, which starred Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth as Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, respectively.
Netflix announced its own miniseries adaptation this year, starring Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden and Olivia Colman.
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