Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt
Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is an English actress. She made her professional debut in The Royal Family, for which she was named Best Newcomer by Evening Standard. Her screen debut came with the 2003 television film Boudica, and her performance in the 2004 drama film My Summer of Love, gained her the Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Her performance in the television film Gideon's Daughtergained her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series,...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth23 February 1983
CityLondon, England
I really look for asking myself that question, "Oh my God, how am I going to do this?" That's what I aspire to every time I take on a new role.
I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.
The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.
I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.
People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.
With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.
When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?
Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.
I'm kind of effectively bipolar.
The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.
It's always better just to do work that you're really proud of and work that you enjoy because really all you have are the choices you make and that's it and who knows after that. I think that's what I love in acting.