A single episode of Trial and Retribution produced three Oscar contenders, with two of this year’s top British nominees first meeting for a fight scene.
Promising Young Woman director Emerald Fennell and Carey Mulligan sat down to watch their debut performance together while filming the critically acclaimed thriller.
The pair – now 35 but 18 at the time – played schoolfriends who had an altercation in a club before Carey’s character came to a grisly end in a 2006 episode of Lynda La Plante’s crime drama.
A young Michael Fassbender was a prosecutor. “It was my first on-screen fight,” laughs Carey, adding that in her youth, she expected the brief role to be life-changing: “I remember thinking: ‘Am I going to be able to get on the Tube
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