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"   Photo: Getty Images  Inside Llewyn Davis will be known for a handful of things: It&amp;#039;s said to be one of directors Joel and Ethan Coen&amp;#039;s finest films, it won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival this year, and it includes a rock-star cast made up of Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund, and John Goodman. There are also appearances from Alex Karpovsky and Adam Driver of HBO&amp;#039;s Girls. The plot is centered around Isaac&amp;#039;s character, an aspiring folk singer who refuses to abandon his dreams. The talented yet penniless and homeless artist leaves for Chicago on a surreal road trip with a junkie jazz musician (Goodman) and a driver/poet (Hedlund). The film will also be known as the movie that tapped Timberlake to play a musician\u2014but not like one we&amp;#039;re used to seeing him as since he takes on folky tunes. He plays Isaac&amp;#039;s affable best friend who is surreptitiously sleeping with his wife (Mulligan). Expect him to croon songs produced by T-Bone Burnett and Marcus Mumford (of Mumford &amp;amp;amp; Sons and also Mulligan&amp;#039;s hubby!). When we caught up with the cast at Inside Llewyn Davis&amp;#039; New York Film Festival premiere, Mulligan (looking lovely in Alexander McQueen) opened up about working with the pop icon. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s such a good actor and obviously he can sing, which helps,&amp;quot; she enthused. &amp;quot;He can hold a tune! I can absolutely, one thousand percent say I&amp;#039;ll never be a singer.&amp;quot; For the record, the actress does a grand job performing a Peter, Paul and Mary-ish song with Timberlake and Isaac. In addition to being JT&amp;#039;s love interest, Mulligan&amp;#039;s character is a hilariously enraged beatnik in early 1960s Greenwich Village. &amp;quot;I hope I&amp;#039;m not like my character\u2014she&amp;#039;s horrible!&amp;quot; said Mulligan. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re meeting her at a very difficult time in her life, so she&amp;#039;s not particularly pleasant. That&amp;#039;s what I loved about her; she&amp;#039;s as far away from me as anyone I&amp;#039;ve gotten to play before.&amp;quot; While Hedlund didn&amp;#039;t get to film any scenes with Timberlake and Mulligan, they did get to celebrate in Cannes together. &amp;quot;We went to Cannes and it was fantastic for all of us, because we all got to hang out,&amp;quot; Hedlund revealed. Did he hit the casinos? &amp;quot;Not this time but last year [for On the Road], I did. It was my favorite part of the trip\u2014I won, just playing black and red on the roulette.&amp;quot; Well, he&amp;#039;s part of a winning film, which you can catch at NYFF on October 5 and 11 and nationally at theaters come December 6. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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