Carey Mulligan seems to have the power of persuasion as she convinced director Nicolas Winding Refn to change the race of the lead character so she could take on the role.
The actress was keen to work with Refn after being a big fan of his work and was desperate to work with him on his new movie Drive.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times the actress said: "My agent said, 'It's a Latina woman in her late 20s, and you should just read it.'
"So I went and met [Refn], trying to persuade him that he should let me do it."
And Mulligan has revealed that she is keen to take on a whole host of different roles and believes some time away from work has allowed her to decide on the kind of work that she wants to do.
"I didn't work from 'Wall Street' [wrapping] until about a month and a half ago.
"It's funny, because the whole awards thing took me up until March, so it sort of felt like I was working even though I wasn't.
"I feel a little bit less afraid of everything. Taking the year off was great in terms of figuring out what kind of stuff I wanted to do. [I'm] trying not to repeat myself and trying to find different characters."
Mulligan will be back on the big screen in the new year with Never Let Me Go, which has been met by the critics on the festival circuit.
The movie is an adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro and sees her star alongside Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield.
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