It wasn’t love at first sight.
Carey Mulligan admitted she didn’t think her husband, Marcus Mumford, was “boyfriend material” when they first met as pre-teens/
The “Never Let Me Go” star got candid about her first impression of the Mumford and Sons singer during Monday’s episode of the “Smartless” podcast with hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett.
“We were friends when we were kids. We went to camp together,” the actress said, explaining Mumford was 10 and she was 12 when they met.
Mulligan, now 38, was asked whether she hooked up with the “I Will Wait” crooner at camp, to which she confessed she wasn’t attracted to him in that way.
“We didn’t but I wrote in my diary that he was the nicest, the kindest person I’d ever met and I gave him 9 1/2 out of 10,” she said.
“I also wrote in my diary that he definitely wasn’t boyfriend material. Not that I’d ever had a boyfriend at that time. But I decided that he was not it.”
But time made the “Great Gatsby” star’s heart grow fonder as she always found her way back to Mumford, now 36, throughout the years.
“We were pen pals for a couple of years, then we lost touch [and] then the internet happened,” Mulligan continued.
The duo managed to find each other on Facebook and briefly reconnected until they both decided to deactivate their accounts.
It wasn’t until the actress was 24 years old that they once again reconnected and decided to get together in person.
At that point, Mulligan quipped they “probably should get married” after years of “destiny” bringing them back together.
Mumford proposed to the British actress in 2011, and the two were wed by April of the following year.
They later went on to welcome their daughter, Evelyn, 8, in September 2015, and their son, Wilfred, 6, in August 2017.
The “Drive” star secretly gave birth to their third child earlier this year.
While Mulligan announced the news in an interview with Vogue published in October, she didn’t disclose the bundle of joy’s sex or name.
The couple are notoriously quiet about their personal lives and tend to keep their kids out of the spotlight.
