Carey Mulligan has admitted that she didn’t think her husband Marcus Mumford was ‘boyfriend material’ when they first met as children.
The actress, 38, revealed exactly what she thought of the singer, 36, when they met for the first time at camp when she was just 12 years old and he was aged 10.
She confessed that although she thought he was the ‘kindest person’ she’d ever met, she also wrote in her diary at the time that he ‘definitely wasn’t boyfriend material’.
Speaking on the Smartless podcast, she hilariously explained: ‘I wrote in my diary that he was the nicest, the kindest person I’d ever met and I gave him 9 1/2 out of 10.’
‘I also wrote in my diary that he definitely wasn’t boyfriend material. I mean not that I’d ever had a boyfriend at that time. But I decided that he was not it,’ she added.
Carey Mulligan has admitted that she didn’t think her husband Marcus Mumford (pictured in May 2022) was ‘boyfriend material’ when they first met as children
The actress, 38, revealed exactly what she thought of the singer, 36, (pictured in May 2012) when they met for the first time at camp when she was just 12 years old and he was aged 10
Though they never dated in their teenage years, Carey remained in contact with Marcus after camp and they were pen pals for a few years before losing touch.
However, they later got back in touch as adults when they added each other on Facebook, prompting them to met up again when Carey was 24.
She shared: ‘What’s weird is that we also not long after we met again as adults, we both worked on the Cohen Brothers movie Inside Llewyn Davis and were both independently hired.’
The couple became engaged in 2011 after only dating for five months, and tied the knot in an English countryside wedding in Somerset one year later in April 2012.
They now share children Evelyn, eight, and Wilfred, five, and Carey confirmed in October that they had welcomed their third child – a baby daughter.
The Promising Young Woman actress revealed the happy news in Vogue’s November cover story.
‘Here I am, ready for Vogue,’ she joked. ‘I’m going to change [the baby], and then we’re going to find Mum another shirt.’
Carey recently opened up about her newborn daughter, whose name she has not yet revealed, gushing that she was giving her a ’10 out of 10 so far’.
Speaking to ‘Entertainment Tonight’ at the Variety Power of Women Los Angeles gala last month, she said: ‘Oh, she’s great. Great. Good baby, 10 out of 10, so far. We’ll see how long that lasts.’
Elsewhere, the star also recently opened up about balancing her successful career and raising her family during an interview with Vanity Fair.
After getting back in touch as adults, the couple (pictured in April 2021) became engaged in 2011 after only dating for five months, and tied the knot in an English countryside wedding
They now share children Evelyn, eight, and Wilfred, five, and Carey confirmed in October that they had welcomed their third child – a baby daughter
‘I think it also changes as they get older. It’s different now,’ Carey admitted when talking about how parenthood has ‘influenced’ her ‘career choices’ over the years.
‘When they’re tiny, they are sort of portable. Now mine are getting a bit older, it will become clearer what is and isn’t possible for us.’
She also reflected on how both she and her husband have the chance to pursue their passions for their career.
She said: ‘I’m so lucky, we’re both so lucky that at the moment we get to do jobs because we want to do them, not because we have to.’
‘And that’s such a luxury in life and in the world to be able to do that. I think it’s sort of very obvious when it’s the right time to do something and not, whereas I think I probably debated more in the past. I feel very cut and dry.’
