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 do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.
I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.
There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.
I think a lot of people want to, at some point in their life, be someone else, run away and escape, in some way. We [actors] do get to do it. We have a job that allows for that. We have an outlet for it.
I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.
I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.
My objective is that I don't try to do the same thing. I try not to emulate something I've done before. And, I'm a real people watcher, so I like trying to play characters that are as diverse from each other as possible, simply because it's more fun for me, actually.
I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.
As long as everyone is playing for the scene or the movie, rather than themselves, then you're going to have something really good.
As long as everyone is playing for the scene or the movie, rather than themselves, then you're going to have something really good.
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.
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?
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?