Carey Mulligan decided her husband Marcus Mumford “wasn't boyfriend material” when they met at a summer camp as kids.
During Monday's episode of the SmartLess podcast, the British actress recalled how she became friends and close friends with the Mumford & Sons singer after meeting at a camp when she was 12 and he was 10.
Co-host Sean Hayes asked if they were “hooking up” at the time and the Maestro star revealed that she had high praise for Marcus in her diary but didn't think he would work as a romantic partner.
“We didn't, but I wrote in my journal that he was the nicest person I'd ever met and gave him a 9 1/2 out of 10,” she shared. “I also wrote in my journal that he definitely wasn't boy material. Not that I ever had a boyfriend at the time, but I decided he wasn't the one.”
Carey, 38, and Marcus, 36, were pen pals for a few years before losing touch. They briefly reconnected on Facebook and she attended one of the band's first folk concerts when she was 19.
“I went to a Laura Marling concert when I was 19 and Mumford & Sons were the support act, it was one of their first gigs and when he came out I remember thinking, 'Oh my God, I knew a man. called Mumford, I went to camp with …'' he recalled. “But he was so tall and when I met him he was tiny.”
They finally met as adults when the Promising Young Woman actress was around 24, and then worked together on the 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis.
“If we hadn't met as adults in Nashville, that's how we ended up meeting, we would have met on this job because we were both hired independently of each other to do it because he did the music and I did the acting. she explained.
Carrey and Marcus married in 2012, just weeks after the film wrapped production, and have three children together.
