Emily Blunt Clarifies Story About Tom Cruise Giving Her Advice: 'Still Something We Laugh About'

Photo: Noam Galai/Getty; Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis/Getty Emily Bluntis setting the record straight about her story aboutTom Cruise. In an interview with theSmartLesspodcast Monday,Blunt shared a conversation she had with Cruisewhen they were filming 2014’sEdge of Tomorrow.She said she had difficulty getting through a shoot and Cruise told her, “' ‘Come on, stop being such a pussy, OK?’ " “And I did laugh, and then we got through it,” Blunt said of Cruise’s comment....

March 15, 2025 · 2 min · 410 words · Eric Underwood

Emily Blunt Is 'Bored' by Scripts Specifying a 'Strong Female Lead': 'Makes Me Roll My Eyes'

Emily Blunt.Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage Emily Bluntis all about playing complex characters — not ticking off a list of stereotype checkboxes. The Englishactress, 39, said in a recent interview withThe Telegraphthat she instantly checks out and is “bored” when she comes across a script specifying a “strong female lead.” “It’s the worst thing ever when you open a script and read the words, ‘strong female lead,’ " said Blunt. “That makes me roll my eyes —I’m already out....

March 15, 2025 · 2 min · 379 words · Jessica Roberson

Emily Blunt Is 'Hell-Bent' on Revenge in Amazon's 'The English' Costarring 'Twilight' 's Chaske Spencer

Emily Bluntis bringingThe Englishto America. “It’s just something about this country,” Blunt’s character says in the mysterioustrailer. Ahead of the show’s premiere, Blunt tells PEOPLE her character “arrives looking like the feminine ideal, dressed in a bonnet and a pink dress, kind of like Alice arriving in the Wild, Wild West,” she said. “She enters this very sort of masculine, brutal world, and she’s seeking vengeance for her son’s death.”...

March 15, 2025 · 3 min · 562 words · Omar Hatfield

Emily Blunt Opens Up About the 'Shocking' Way Acting Impacted Her Childhood Stutter

Emily Blunt.Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty for American Institute for StutteringEmily Bluntis continuing an important conversation.Speaking with PEOPLE Monday at theAmerican Institute for Stuttering’s 2022Freeing Voices, Changing Lives Galain New York City, the 39-year-old actress — who hosted the event — said she thinks it’s “important” for her to keep “speaking openly about” having a stutter, “a disability people don’t know much about.“And “in some ways” for her personally, Blunt said, acting “was a sort of invitation intospeaking fluently for one of the first times,” she said, even if it didn’t “cure” her stuttering, per se (“Once you are a stutterer, you will always be a stutterer,” she said in a speech)....

March 15, 2025 · 8 min · 1617 words · Gabrielle Snyder

Emily Blunt Reveals Tough Advice Tom Cruise Gave Her on 'Edge of Tomorrow' Set: 'We Got Through It'

Photo: Photo Image Press/Shutterstock, Daniele Venturelli/WireImageEmily Bluntsays she relied on some words of advice fromTom Cruiseto help her through her difficult time making 2014’sEdge of Tomorrow.During Blunt’s appearance on theSmartLesspodcast Monday, the 39-year-old actress told cohostsJason Bateman,Will ArnettandSean Hayesthat Cruise told her to “stop being such a pussy” when she grew stressed while filming their Doug Liman-directed action film.“We had to wear these enormous suits, which I think would’ve been great if we had CGI’d them, but we wanted to do it in a tactile way,” Blunt said during the podcast, noting “there was nothing cozy about these suits....

March 15, 2025 · 7 min · 1281 words · Jody Bowman

Emily Blunt Says Brother-in-Law Stanley Tucci Is 'Shocked' by His Sex Symbol Status

Photo: Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagicEmily Bluntis related to a sex symbol.The Golden Globe winner, 39, opened up about seeing brother-in-lawStanley Tuccievolve into theheartthrob he’s recently becomein his 60s as she appeared Thursday onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert.“Can you believe that?He’s a sex symbol now,” Blunt raved.“I think he’s shocked,” Blunt added, althoughColbert, 58, suggested otherwise: “Really? He doesn’t act like he is. He acts like, ‘Finally they’ve noticed!’ “Blunt said, “It’s amazing that it took a sort of irreverent video on Instagram that my sister told him to post and then he became a sex symbol....

March 15, 2025 · 6 min · 1255 words · Rebecca Friedman

Emily Blunt Says Her Daughters Are 'So Happy' She Got to Work with Ryan Gosling: He's 'It for Them'

Emily Blunt at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.Photo:Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Emily Bluntis officially a cool mom to her kids. On Sunday’s episode ofSunday Sitdown with Willie Geist, the actress, 40, shared that her two daughters Violet, 7, and Hazel, 9, who she shares with husbandJohn Krasinski, can’t believe she got to work withRyan Goslingni her upcoming movieThe Fall Guyafter seeing the actor star as Ken inBarbie....

March 15, 2025 · 3 min · 431 words · Rachel Richards

Emily Blunt Says Her Parents Are Going to the Oscars with Her — Here’s Why It Will Be Extra Special for Her Dad (Exclusive)

Emily Bluntis making the Oscars a family affair and says she plans to bring husbandJohn Krasinskiand her parents to the show. “I’m going to bring John and I’m hoping my parents, who are sort of angling for it,” says Blunt who is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role inOppenheimer.“It’s my dad’s birthday that weekend!” While her two young daughters won’t be at the show, she says they’ll be cheering her on from home....

March 15, 2025 · 2 min · 240 words · Russell Flores

Emily Blunt Says She Feels 'Lighter Than Air' as She Turns 41 After Her First Oscar Nomination (Exclusive)

Happy birthday,Emily Blunt! TheOppenheimeractress, who turns 41 on Friday, recently opened up to PEOPLE about how she’s feeling at this stage in her life, in the wake of her first-everAcademy Awardnomination. “I feel like I’ve been lighter than air the last couple of weeks. I feel so happy,” Blunt says in an interview for PEOPLE’s annual Oscar portfolio, when asked about the recognition. “I don’t know if I’ve had much time to let it sink in....

March 15, 2025 · 2 min · 353 words · Grant Hudson

Emily Blunt Says She Learned About Her Oscar Nomination 'Directly After Picking Up My Dog's Poop'

Emily Blunt during a discussion aboutOppenheimer(2023) at The 92nd Street Y in New York City on Feb. 6, 2024.Photo:Gary Gershoff/Getty Gary Gershoff/Getty Emily Blunt’s got the scoop! TheOppenheimeractress, 40, reflected on earning her first-everOscarnomination during an interview for theHappy Sad Confusedpodcast at The 92nd Street Y in N.Y.C. on Tuesday, recalling the everyday, relatable chore she had just finished doing when she heard the “magical” news. She added that her husband and fellow actorJohn Krasinski"had a really good cry, as well" as they learned she’d nabbed a Best Supporting Actress nod for her role inOppenheimer....

March 15, 2025 · 2 min · 392 words · Justin Mcguire

Emily Blunt Says She Was ‘Dressing Like a Teenage Boy’ Before Starring inThe Devil Wears Prada

Emily Blunt admitted that she needed some major fashion help prior to booking her role in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’.Photo:Unique Nicole/WireImage, Barry Wetcher/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock Unique Nicole/WireImage, Barry Wetcher/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock Andy Sachs wasn’t the only person who learned a thing or two about fashion inThe Devil Wears Prada. Emily Blunt— who playedMeryl Streep’s brisk know-it-all assistant in the 2006 film alongsideAnne Hathway’s Andy — admitted that she picked up quite a lot of industry knowledge during her time on set....

March 15, 2025 · 4 min · 667 words · Rachel Daniels

Emily Blunt Says theDevil Wears PradaCast Is ‘All Good’ with No Sequel: ‘Things Should Be Cherished'

Emily Blunt in “The Devil Wears Prada”.Photo:Barry Wetcher/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock Barry Wetcher/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock Emily Bluntand the rest ofThe Devil Wears Pradacast is ready to close the chapter onRunway. During an interview for theHappy Sad Confusedpodcast at The 92nd Street Y, New York, theOppenheimerstar, 40, said there’s “never” been real momentum at creating a sequel to the hit 2006 movie. TheOscar nomineetold host Josh Horowitz that the cast is “good” without making a sequel....

March 15, 2025 · 3 min · 484 words · Linda Martin

Emily Blunt Says Tom Cruise Was 'Such a Doll to Me' onEdge of TomorrowSet: 'I Loved Him'

Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise.Photo:Amanda Edwards/Getty; JC Olivera/GettyEmily Bluntis singingTom Cruise’s praises.On Thursday, Blunt, 40, appeared at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles for amoderated conversationwith filmmaker Rob Marshall, whom Blunt has worked with on 2014’sInto the Woodsand 2018’sMary Poppins Returns.At one point during the wide-ranging conversation, Marshall turned Blunt’s attention to her time working with Cruise, 61, onEdge of Tomorrow.The two costarred in the 2014 science-fiction action movie as a pair of soldiers involved in a war between humanity and an alien race in the near future who discover that Cruise’s character has gained the ability to relive moments in time....

March 15, 2025 · 7 min · 1424 words · Amanda Wagner