Actress Carey Mulligan reveals she buys tons of tickets to her OWN movies

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 16:19 EST, 18 September 2010


An Education star Carey Mulligan has shared a lesson in desperation. She has admitted to buying loads of tickets - to her own movies.

The actress revealed that she regularly snaps up scores of seats to her films to increase theatre sales.

Mulligan, 25, was on Live with Regis & Kelly when she made her astonishing admission.

Carey Mulligan

Sneaky tactics: Carey Mulligan admitted on Live with Regis & Kelly that she buys up tickets to her own movies to boost box office. She told stand in Anderson Cooper that she'll go and buy over 30 tickets for her own film.

'I go and buy, like 30. It's mainly just to try and bump up the box office.'

The British actress who stars in the upcoming Wall Street sequel says she also hangs around outside the cinema queue to persuade film goers to see her flick.

Carey was on the US daytime talk show to promote her other new movie Never Let Me Go which stars fellow Brit Keira Knightley.

Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan

Never Let Me Go: Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley star in the new movie that sees their family's past come back to haunt them

The starlet has seen her career skyrocket since her film debut in Pride & Prejudice.

But she seems to be anxious about holding on to her success by going so far as to beg people to see her movie instead of the one they maybe planned on watching.

She told Kelly: 'I went last night and stood outside with my friend and we watched people go in and then we would go up to people and say, 'What are you going to see?''

'And they'd be like, 'Oh, Never Let Me Go'.

'And I'd be like, 'Oh, it's awesome'.'

Carey Mulligan

Hassle: Carey also admitted to asking movie goers in the queue at the cinema what film they're going to see and persuades them to go and see her flick instead.

The blonde beauty also revealed that she always landed male roles as an actress in school productions.

Carey revealed: 'I've always had this low voice and I was kind of a tomboy. I had an older brother and hung out with his friends.

'I always played drunks or men but I always thought the male roles were more dramatic.'

Never Let Me Go opens in US cinemas on October 1.

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