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
A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.
Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.
It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.
If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.
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.
People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.
I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it [in Into the Woods]. ...I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people.
When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
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.
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.
I'm Sudafed-ed up, but it's alright because I'm having to do this rather sultry scene, so maybe it's OK that my voice is three octaves lower.
So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about it. Because, you know, I'm not around girls like that. The friends I have in the business, I'm always really happy for them. I think we're always happy for each other. That sounds crap, but it's true.
It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.