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Read an excerpt from an interview with Carey Mulligan, actress in the film adaptation of An Education at

British sensation Carey Mulligan is a poised, fearless and inventive 23-year-old actress. In Danish director Lone Scherfig’s An Education, set in 1961 London, Mulligan plays Jenny, a sophisticated, if somewhat dreamy 16-year-old schoolgirl who finds herself irrevocably succumbing to the mysterious charms of a Jewish aesthete (sharply played by Peter Sarsgaard).

It’s a bravura performance that manages to be both emotionally charged and sharply unsentimental. Mulligan’s quick, emotional alertness and sexual precocity is staggering. In the film, she plays the part of a young Francophile. The novelist Nick Hornby adapted the story from the memoir of journalist Lynn Barber, and it has the free, spontaneous momentum of early French New Wave films...