Carey Mulligan just revealed how she made a huge scene at the train station while getting distracted by a Taylor Swift music moment recently.
The Promising Young Woman actress, 35, told a story about a very embarrassing moment she had while trying to hand-deliver presents to friends during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday night.
Carey, who looked radiant in white, said things went awry after she got a little too distracted by Swift’s music during a recent outing.
Fearless: Carey Mulligan explained how she had an embarrassing moment at the train station while listening to Taylor Swift’s music during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night
‘It was one of those kid-free moments where I had, like, a latte, and I was listening to music, and I was listening to Taylor Swift, and I was like, “Tis the damn season,” and I was so in my little zone,’ the mother-of-two told Jimmy.
Remembering she was in public, Carey decided it was time to disinfect.
‘Like a very conscientious person, I realized I should sanitize—because COVID,’ she explained. ‘And so I sort of reached into my pocket to get the sanitizer out. And as I was sanitizing my hand, I saw this sort of motion out the corner of my eye.’
‘And then [I] turned, with music still blaring, to see my suitcase in the middle of the train tracks and it had just sort of rolled on,’ she went on to say.
‘Tis the season: ‘It was one of those kid-free moments where I had, like, a latte, and I was listening to music, and I was listening to Taylor Swift, and I was like, “Tis the damn season,” and I was so in my little zone,’ the mother-of-two told Jimmy
Whoops! But when she got too into the music and distracted while getting hand sanitizer, Mulligan’s suitcase full of gifts for friends rolled away
And that wasn’t even the worst of it.
‘And my coffee was down there, as well. For somehow, in my panic, I’d sort of thrown my coffee…then this sort of station master man came along and I said like, “I can just get it. There’s, like, 10 minutes ’til the train comes.” And he’s like, “No, you can’t just get it. You can’t just walk onto a train track and try and retrieve a suitcase.”‘
They ended up bringing in serious help to fix the situation.
‘So anyway, it ended up being like seven guys in hi-vis jackets, and they made an announcement and the whole train station is looking at me because they knew it was my fault that the train was delayed, and I wanted to be asked to just swallow me up. [I was] thankfully in my big face mask just hiding,’ she went on with a laugh.
Embarrassing: Carey said it took a full seven men in ‘hi-vis jackets’ to retrieve her things
Creative connection: Carey’s husband Marcus Mumford worked on Taylor’s new album evermore. The pair are seen in May 2012 above
Carey has a special connection to Taylor’s new album evermore.
Her husband Marcus Mumford collaborated with the pop star on the song cowboy like me.
Talking about the collaboration last month ahead of evermore’s surprise release, a music insider told The Sun: ‘Taylor is a long-time fan of Mumford & Sons and has done covers of their songs over the years.’
‘Their sound really resonates with her so the fact they’ve been in the studio together actually makes total sense. Taylor’s become mates with Marcus and Carey so it’s just the next step, naturally, to work together, particularly as her recent sound is so much closer to the music Marcus is used to making.’