Here are the two covers for Carey Mulligan’s appearance as Elle UK’s January cover girl. The photos are by David Slijper. I think the images are very striking, and I love my girl and everything, but something about the angle and the hair is aging her. I don’t hate it though – Carey is one of those Cate Blanchett-types who can play anything from teenager to 50 years old. Speaking of Carey looking old-ish, that’s kind of what the cover interview is about. Carey describes an incident where a doctor (!) told her that she should Botox. For. Real.

At just 25, Carey Mulligan is one of Hollywood’s freshest-faced stars. Yet the British actress was told to get Botox in order to look more youthful, she has disclosed.

Of her visit to a Los Angeles dermatologist, Mulligan recalled: “I said, ‘I have some lines here under my eye and they’re annoying, what can you do?’ He looked at my face and said, ‘We’ll just drop some Botox in here and here…’.

“I said, ‘What the —-? I’m only 25, are you joking?’ So I can’t move my face? Isn’t that, well, the antithesis of what I’m trying to do as an actress? Only in LA would someone try and give you Botox when you’re 25 years old.”

The star of An Education has won plaudits for her quirky style but claims to feel “intensely uncomfortable” on the red carpet.

“I’ve never felt like a sexy person. I’ve always felt like a sensible person. I’ve always felt absurd wearing anything revealing,” she told Elle magazine.

The actress also confided that she loathes her much-copied gamine hairstyle. “I hate my hair. After An Education, I had a small part in Michael Mann’s film Public Enemies and he wanted me to dye it white blonde, and it wrecked my hair. Literally, ruined it. It was falling apart, fried. So I had to cut it off. I cried.”

Although tipped to land a second Oscar nomination for Never Let Me Go, Mulligan admitted to disappointment at missing out on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the forthcoming Stieg Larsson adaptation. “I auditioned for it but I didn’t get the part,” she said, adding that watching another actress play the part would be “agony”.

[From The Telegraph]

The old saying in Hollywood is that you should never tell what roles you passed on (or what size a man‘s dong is), but I think saying what parts you auditioned for and lost is fine. It actually makes me like her even more thinking that she’s so emotionally invested in roles she only auditioned for.

As for the Botox thing – WTF, doctors? She’s cute as a button, she can move her face, and she’s a great little actress. Not all actresses have to come from The Starlet Starter Kit. Dumbasses.

To see video from Carey’s Elle UK shoot, go here.

Elle UK covers courtesy of The Fashion Spot.