BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Why Carey feels like a million dollars: Actress never had to care so much about her appearance than in The Great Gatsby
/li> 0 shares 0 comments A million dollars: Carey Mulligan plays the selfish golden girl Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Carey Mulligan was draped in precious gems worth millions of pounds during the making of The Great Gatsby film — and a security guard watched her every move. ‘I would be doing a scene, wearing these fabulous jewels from Tiffany’s worth many, many millions,’ Carey told me, during an exclusive interview at the Plaza Hotel in New York. ‘There’d be diamond bracelets on each arm, and diamond earrings, and rings, and strings of pearls around my neck. And I could see this guy in the corner watching me intently, in case I ran off with anything.’ In Baz Luhrmann’s sumptuous new 3D screen version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age literary classic, Carey plays the selfish golden girl Daisy Buchanan. Daisy embarks on a dangerous love affair, under the nose of her husband, with ridiculously wealthy Jay Gatsby, played by Leonardo Di