Carey Mulligan didn't want her role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps to be 'redundant'.
The actress takes on the role of Gordon Gekko's daughter in Oliver Stone's sequel to the eighties classic and she wanted her role to be important to the film rather than being the token girlfriend.
Speaking at the Toronto Film Festival she said: "The challenge was to try and make the girlfriend role in a Hollywood film effective and not just redundant.
"I think a lot of the time, through no fault of the actress, the girlfriend can be marginalised and just an accessory to the plot. I thought there was something to play there, and more than just the girlfriend."
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the Oscar nominee's first major American role and she admits that she enjoyed walking onto set each day intimidated by Stone and leading man Michael Douglas.
"I kind of wanted to be in a big boy's film and be intimidated. There were other roles going on in England that I was kind of involved in, but there was nothing going on that I would wake up in the morning and go, "oh, s**t, how am I going to do this?
"That was sort of exciting. I did want to be one of the few women in a big, masculine film. And it was fun."
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