She said, ”Justin did everything he could to make me feel more at ease when I had to sing. He was really helpful on the set and that made it much less painful. I’ll never be a singer, and singing still terrifies me, even though I can fake it. At least I was able to spend some time in the studio with Justin working with [producer] T Bone Burnett for a month, so by the time I had to sing in front of the camera it was less of an ordeal.”
Carey – who is married to Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford – found it hard singing in Shame because she had to perform live.
She recalled to Psychologies magazine: ”Singing in Shame was much more stressful because I had to do it in one take and the camera was directly in front of me. Also, the director, Steve McQueen, want to do it all live. That made it a much more emotional kind of performance, whereas in Llewyn, we were mimicking folk singers of the time so it was more light-hearted. Singing is still not my thing though. I’ve always been nervous singing in front of people and I don’t think that’s ever going to change.”