Carey Mulligan on Going Ballistic in ‘Beef’

When Carey Mulligan was preparing for her role in Beef, she had some feedback about the insults. The second season of the Netflix anthology series, which creator Lee Sung Jin describes as part Sopranos, part Ingmar Bergman, traffics in a dirty, delicious fight between Oscar Isaac’s country club manager Josh and his wife, Lindsay, played by Mulligan. But Mulligan was worried that some of the obscenities felt too American. “I wrote Sonny [Lee] a list of really awful British swear words — just all the shit things that we say to each other,” she says. “I was like, ‘I should definitely call someone a cunt.’ ”   When Carey Mulligan was preparing for her role in Beef, she had some feedback about the insults. The second season of the Netflix anthology series, which creator Lee Sung Jin describes as part Sopranos, part Ingmar Bergman, traffics in a dirty, delicious fight between Oscar Isaac’s country club manager Josh and his wife, Lindsay, played by Mulligan. But Mulligan was worried that some of the obscenities felt too American. “I wrote Sonny [Lee] a list of really awful British swear words — just all the shit things that we say to each other,” she says. “I was like, ‘I should definitely call someone a cunt.’ ”