The actress reveals that the real challenge during the filming of 'The Girl on the Train' was hiding the pregnancy from its director
Talking to Emily Blunt is not talking to a star. It's talking to a mother. "I've gotten used to the zoo and I wouldn't back down for the world," she assures this British girl with a timid air and easy smile. The zoo she refers to includes her two daughters, Violeta, just over three months old, and Hazel, two years old. Her husband is also stellar: John Krasinski, whom she married at George Clooney's residence on Lake Como (Italy). Family aside, the actress has a career in which there is no genre that she can resist.
She to date she has succeeded in everything. From his American debut in a comedy like The Devil Wears Prada (2006) to his work on the action drama Sicario (2015), Blunt has sung in Into the Woods (2015) and shadowed Tom Cruise in Edge of the Woods. tomorrow(2014). About her last work as an alcoholic Rachel with memory problems that she plays in The Girl on the Train, there are already rumors of a possible Oscar nomination. But she prefers to continue talking about her family. "The real challenge of this film was to hide that she was pregnant," she says.
Blunt's mind during filming was preoccupied with hiding her condition from the director in order to play the role she wanted. “I found out she was pregnant a week before we started shooting in October and I didn't tell her until January, when she started showing up. I'm sorry, Tate [Taylor]! ”, She apologizes to herself after the fact. With her slender physique, even now it seems impossible to think that she gave birth just a few months ago.
She goes beyond false humility with that British correctness that she exudes even though she already has American citizenship. Blunt, 33, landed the leading role in the film against all odds, amid a sea of criticism among readers of this best seller (15 million copies sold worldwide) who considered her too pretty for the worked. She knew what to tell them; to them, to the writer Paula Hawkins and her director. “It's true that I'm lucky enough to be able to choose what I want to play,” she admits, “but I also did it because it seems like we only accept a certain type of woman as the lead in our movies. In movies, women have to be nice, pretty, or smart to star in a successful film. And I am interested in other things. Like Rachel in The Girl on the Train, ”she sums up. “In addition, I am becoming more and more picky about what I want because with such small children it is difficult to organize. Any working mother knows that."
The new Mary Poppins
She doesn't stop. She is already preparing for her next job, something as different as the role of Mary Poppins in the remake of the Walt Disney classic directed by Rob Marshall. As she says herself, a breath of fresh air. “I have my own Irish Mary Poppins, Tina, who helps me with my children,” she explains, taking the conversation back to her family.
But the filming of Mary Poppins Returns will allow Blunt to return to his native London. Settled in the Big Apple for a few years, she missed British pubs and fish & chips. But what she misses the most is her family. “When we get together we are good at playing guessing movies. We are the loudest,” she says. Her father is the lawyer Oliver Blunt; her mother, Joana, a teacher and actress, and she has a sister, Felicity, who works as a literary agent and with whom she played matchmaker, introducing her to fellow actor Stanley Tucci, now her brother-in-law. She also shares a profession with her brother Sebastián. An admirer like many others of Julie Andrews, actress who immortalized the character of P.L.Travers, Blunt received the news that she would be the new magical nanny with a mixture of "joy and horror". But someone who became an actress as a way to overcome her stutter isn't afraid of having to say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: “I'll just have to find my own voice.”
