carey mulligan back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: so much to talk about. that film but also look at this, everywhere i look, there you are -- vogue magazine, ravishing carey lligan is the season's most romantic movie and then the "wall street journal." but mostly on broadway "skylight." david hare said about you if i was starting a national theater with an acting company like olivier had i'd start around her. that would be a nice adventure, wouldn't it? >> that would be such a good adventure. i'd do it with david if he asked. >> rose: what is it about david that would want would make you want to do it with him? >> he's just an extraordinary writer and just a wonderful person. we've had the privilege of getting to spend a lot of time with him on the plane. he was down during rehearsals and previews. he's brilliant. he's very much the writer on the project. we're working with stephen, too. he's just so gifted. >> rose: what i love about him is the curiosity he has for the things that he wants the to do whether politics in the middle east or whether it's male-female relationships or all of that. >> yes. >> rose: curiosity seems very contemporary to me. >> yea