Not every Carey Mulligan movie begins with a Charli XCX song, but maybe more of them should. When Promising Young Woman deploys the 2017 pop bop Boys in its opening moments, it's the first sign you're about to get something from Mulligan that you're not used to: namely, a contemporary setting.

"I know that for a cinema audience, I'm just constantly in period costume," Mulligan says, shrugging her shoulders in an oversize red sweater.