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Carey Mulligan Jokes About Being Flustered Meeting Brad Pitt: 'I Didn't Know How to Talk to Him'

Carey Mulligan joked that she felt starstruck meeting Brad Pitt at the 2024 Santa Barbara Film Festival. "I'd never met him before and I walked into the green room and he was in there and I didn't know how to talk to him, so I didn't," she said, noting that they eventually spoke at their seats.

While Mulligan, 38, spoke with Extra at the 2024 Oscarsnominees luncheon on Monday, the Maestro star noted that she was thrown off when she ran into Pitt, 60, at the 2024 Santa Barbara Film Festival last Thursday. The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star complimented both Cooper and Mulligan's performances — the latter plays Bernstein's wife Felicia Montealegre in the movie — as "alive, kinetic and so natural" in one scene in particular. Both Jake Gyllenhaal and Chris Hemsworth in recent years have described awkwardly greeting the Se7en star the first time they were introduced.

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