Biography : Exclusive Interview With Emily Blunt @LAX airport

Exclusive Interview With Emily Blunt @LAX airport

Personal Details
Full name: Emily Olivia Leah Blunt
Born on: 23 February 1983
Place in: London, England, UK
Professions: Actress
Years active: 2003–present
Spouse: John Krasinski
Relatives: Crispin Blunt (uncle)

Emily Blunt makes a call on her cell phone as she arrives at LAX airport on Friday (June 24) in Los Angeles.

The 28-year-old English actress is back in town after spending time in Michigan to film her latest project, Five Year Engagement. Emily filmed a kissing scene with Jason Segel during a night shoot earlier in the month.

It was announced earlier in the week that Emily’s hubby, John Krasinski, will be teaming up with Aaron Sorkin to create a miniseries about the Chateau Marmont!

Exclusive Interview With Emily Blunt @LAX airport

You worked a lot on your dance moves for this film.
I did work quite a lot on the moves. It was interesting to start out because I never had any previous dance experience. It was terrifying and really embarrassing to do something every day that you're horrible at and you're surrounded by brilliant dancers. I think when I first came in they were all looking at me like, "Oh, here's some actress who thinks she can do what we do" and they were tough on me. It was tough love and I think that is what I needed. It's extraordinary because when you get through the first month - I had about eight weeks solid dancing before I started shooting. But when you get over that first month it starts to feel more organic and doesn't feel so alien. But the training is an endurance test. These dancers are athletes.

It is like a sport.
It really is. They train for eight or nine hours a day sometimes and I only did two or three hours with them every day with two hours in the gym and I was on a diet. It was miserable because I love to eat, so for me that was the hardest part.

Exclusive Interview With Emily Blunt @LAX airport

What interested you in the script?
I felt like it was a fresh take on a romance and a love story. I thought the dialogue between the two people felt alive and not like I'd seen in another movie. It had sort of a contemporary, unique feel, and I also liked the female role. She wasn't a pushover, she wasn't simply the reactionary part to the male lead. I have no interest in playing the girlfriend roles. I really liked the character - I thought she was forthright, independent and complex. There was something really enigmatic about the character and [I liked] the challenge of being a dancer. Matt was also a huge draw for me. I've watched him for years and adored everything that he does.

Let's talk about the dialogue. The two characters are not afraid of the feelings that they have, but they don't postpone their lives for love like in many Hollywood movies. That brings a lot of chemistry between the two of them, how did you create that? Is that something you talked about beforehand?
We talked about it and it was important for us to find a chemistry that represented a secret language between two people. I think that's what people have when they're in love, it's like a weird secret language and a connection that goes back years before they actually meet. I do believe in that. Honestly, chemistry with a co-star is a very ethereal, strange thing. You either have it or you don't and thank God we did. Apparently people seem to like it and I think with Matt a lot of our chemistry came from humour. We genuinely like each other. He makes me pee my pants laughing. I think that that really helped us out because we are very similar, we find the same things funny and we think and work in the same way. I think all of those [things] contributed to us being able to find something that felt real. Within a scene we'd improvised, we threw lines at each other to try to make the other one laugh. George was actually very open about that, so we'd stretch these scenes so they didn't feel stale. But chemistry as a whole is a hard thing to pin down and box in because you really have it or you don't.

Exclusive Interview With Emily Blunt @LAX airport

How much of the bathroom scene when you first met was improvised?
We really worked on that scene a lot. We spent all day on it, to be honest. It morphed into different things throughout the day. We'd start out with it being completely scripted and as the day wore on we started to feel like we were getting a bit stale with it, so we would throw in new ideas. The great thing about having George as a writer is he's very capable of rewriting something quickly. He's not threatened by it. "Yeah, try it, but maybe say it like this." He's a smart, eloquent guy, so he's able to capture what we're trying to say in a more succinct way, but a lot of the stuff in the bathroom and on the bus was improvised.

Have you ever crashed a wedding in real life?
No. I would never want to. A lot of weddings are boring.

Was it explained enough in the movie?
No, I don't think so, but who cares? I think she just felt like it. She's one of these spontaneous, reckless people and I think they wanted to create the most unlikely situation romantically [for these two people] - to actually fall for someone in a men's bathroom, which I guarantee stinks of urine, is pretty fun. I think it was more to create a backdrop that's surreal.

Do you think you're in charge of your own life? Do you think destiny rules it?
I'd like to think that I'm in control of everything and I think to a certain extent the choices you make can very much determine the path that you're on. You have to be instinctive about these things and make smart choices for yourself. And probably bad ones along the way too, in order to make the smarter choices eventually. But on the other hand I feel like I've had these very strange, somewhat magical occurrences that even if they seemed negative at the time, have been the right thing to have happened in order to send me off on a path less travelled that I would never imagined being on. Looking back, one of the reasons that I'm doing this job is because my older sister is very bright and brilliant. She's a year and a half older than me and she got into one of the top schools in England - Westminster. It's an amazing school and very hard to get into. I wanted to be like her, so I was desperate to get into it too. I didn't get in. I remember reeling around the kitchen despairingly like, "Oh, this is terrible! I can't believe I didn't get it!" My mom was upset for me obviously, but she felt there was a reason for it. So I went to my second choice school, which happened to have a great drama department which Westminster didn't. They had a play that went to the Edinburgh Festival, and the head of drama asked if I wanted to be in it. At that point I really didn't want to be an actress but [figured] I'd earn some money, and I got an agent from that. Now I'm doing this.

Exclusive Interview With Emily Blunt @LAX airport

How old were you then?
Sixteen.
Have you ever had an instant attraction to somebody like you do in this film? Have you fallen in love?
Do you mean when you first meet someone? I think it depends on the person. I don't feel I've ever been in the experience of being led by the head. I'm probably a hopeless romantic in that way. I'm not sure if I quite believe in love at first sight, because someone can look amazing, but then they could be [dumb], so that ruins it; now I'm out of love. I believe in an instantaneous connection, I believe your heart skips a beat; I believe that is very unique. But Matt was saying that he saw his wife from across the bar and bang! The lights changed, and he was like, "That's it." So he's probably more of a romantic than me because he believes in love at first sight.

You're more pragmatic.
[laughs] Cynical! But I do believe after a few sentences you're like, "Oh, great."

Did you feel like that with John [Krasinski]?
I would say it was a very instantaneous connection.
How did your body adapt to your training, and have you retained any of that knowledge since?
I don't think so, thanks to pizza. We shot the dance scenes over four intensive days. Everyone had ice packs, and the physio was there clicking everybody back into shape. It was like a war scene with all these dancers laid out on the floor because it was exhausting. It was four full days of dance and I've never been so drained in my life. But at the same time, when it was over, I cried and cried saying goodbye to them because we'd gone on this accelerated journey of doing the most intimidating thing that I've ever had to do. They were so sweet to me at the end and said such lovely things. I was like a mess. For me, it was really hard to say goodbye to those guys.

Why don't you continue that?
Because I can't. That's like a full-time job. It was a full-time job for a while. I had no life.

As an actor, is it frustrating to delve into something and absorb things, then move on to the next thing?
That's the fun of it for me. I love that immersion for a while and then you say goodbye. Initially I found it hard. When I was a bit younger I had his idealistic notion that we're all going to stay pals and see each other all the time and it doesn't happen. But that's okay too. You always see people again. Sometimes you're lucky enough to take somebody away from the experience and that's amazing, but what you're talking about is the experience as a whole. I love that. I love to delve into a world that is very new, then you say goodbye at the end. You ball it up and store it away and always have the experience with you, but yet you've got to leave room for more. I think that's what I like about being an actress, the morphing and shape shifting, in many different ways through the people that you meet, the job that you do and the parts that you do. I like the unknown and find that thrilling.

Do you think about the public's perception of how you portray yourself off-screen?
I think you're aware of it otherwise I'd be coming in here drunk in my pajamas. You've got to care a little bit. To be honest, I think all actors hide a little bit because you have to. It's a surreal environment.

As an actress you're choosing very good movies lately. How much do you choose the roles that you play? This one's fantastic.
This is something that I very much went after.

What do you think happens to these two characters after the movie ends?
I think they choose love. Maybe she'll end up teaching six-year-olds, but maybe that's wonderful, too. I think they will choose what makes them happiest ultimately and it's usually to be with that person. For me, I would always choose love.

Do you think you have more of a fan base than your husband?
Oh no, John does.

Your fan base is more loyal because it's the one you created with The Devil Wears Prada. There a lot of teens that are dying to watch this movie.
Definitely people who watched The Devil Wears Prada have been very loyal. It's the movie that people talk to me most about, that and The Young Victoria.

What are you doing next?
The next movie I'm doing is called Looper with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis with Rian Johnson directing. It's really amazing, and I can't wait to start. I start in a couple of weeks thus my blonde hair.

Biography

The one of the famous celebrities Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is an English actress. Blunt's first major film role came in the British drama My Summer of Love (2004). She then comes into view in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) for which she was chosen for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She has since come into view in a number of American and British productions, counting Charlie Wilson's War (2007), The Young Victoria (2009), The Wolfman (2010), Wild Target (2010), and The Adjustment Bureau (2011).

Awards and Nominations

BAFTA Awards (Won: 0, Year: - & Nominations: 1, Year: 2007 )
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2007	Nominated	BAFTA Film Award	Best Actress in a Supporting Role For The Devil Wears Prada (2006).
Costume Designers Guild Awards (Won:1 , Year: 2010 & Nominations: 0, Year: - )
2010	Won	President's Award
Evening Standard British Film Awards (Won: 1, Year: 2005 & Nominations: 0, Year: - )
2005	Won	Evening Standard British Film Award	Most Promising Newcomer For: My Summer of Love (2004). Shared with: Natalie Press
Golden Globes, USA (Won: 1, Year: 2007 & Nominations: 2, Year: 2007, 2010 )
2007	Won	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television For: Gideon's Daughter (2005) (TV).
Motovun Film Festival (Won: 1, Year: 2005 & Nominations: 0, Year: - )
2005	Won	Special Mention	For: My Summer of Love (2004). Shared with: Natalie Press

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