Emily Blunt covers the latest issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK, mostly to promote her role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Emily is a dual American and British citizen now, even though she only sought American citizenship for tax reasons. Years ago, she seemed pretty bummed about becoming an American, although thankfully, her publicist convinced her to stop talking about it so much. I bring this up because Blunt does make some references to her American life and you can tell that she still misses living in England. Also: Emily is 40 years old now and still working a lot, which she’s happy about… and then in the same breath, she talks about how she’s taking a year off. Some highlights:
Americans don’t get British innuendos: “I was just talking to a friend last night about our love affair with The Great British Bake Off. It’s the irreverence of it – you’d never get away with some of the innuendos over here.”
She’s been a naturalized American citizen for eight years: She admits to being “seduced by America’s great qualities… I have to be, right? My husband’s American, my children are American… That’s three of my favourite people in the world.” A stint living in LA left her pining for London, but in Brooklyn she found the sense of community she had been missing. “I feel very at home here. It’s like a village within New York, with all the spontaneity combined with the reality of being in a big city.” So many of her close friends live nearby, she adds, that “it’s almost like being on Sesame Street!”
Playing Kitty Oppenheimer, the frustrated wife: “She wasn’t an easy woman – she definitely didn’t conform to the 1950s housewife ideal, and yet she found herself confined to an ironing board in Mexico’s Los Alamos, which must have driven her mad… I found her so interesting to play, because she was a great scientist herself, but limited by the era she lived in. A lot of women a few generations ahead of me weren’t allowed the juggle of a career and children – there was an expectation they should choose, and if they did choose their career, they were frowned upon. Even now, I see women in their seventies whose whole identity has been caught up in motherhood, and then once that’s done, there’s this sense of, well, who am I and how do I reclaim myself?”
Mixed feelings on the streaming era: “Of course I’m hugely supportive of streaming, but when it first became part of the ecosystem, I was afraid we were losing the sense of event and ceremony – that thing of going out and putting your phone down and getting immersed in a world with a roomful of strangers. I’m very nostalgic about [cinema], because I have so many distinct memories of it from my upbringing.”
She’s not obsessed with her status: “When I see myself up on a billboard, I have this complete dissociation with it… I’m like, who’s that? And I can see my children doing the same – they might say, oh, there’s Mama, but it’s not exciting for them. What’s exciting for them is when I can pick them up from school and take them swimming.”
She’s never away from her kids for more than a fortnight. “Because even though they’re hardy, and they’re used to this strange life, it’s still rough on them when I have to go away.”
Taking the rest of the year off: “There are cornerstones of the girls’ day that I don’t want to compromise on – like, will you wake me up, take me to school, pick me up and put me to bed? And I just want to be able to say, yes, yes, yes. It’s such an exhale for me to be able to do that.”
The industry isn’t always kind to women: “My toes curl when people tell me, ‘My daughter wants to be an actress.’ I want to say, don’t do it! Because it’s a hard industry and it can be very disappointing. A lot of people tell you not to take things personally – but it’s completely personal, especially when you’re being judged on how you look. So you just have to endure that side of things.”
Equal pay: “Ambition is healthy – it shouldn’t be seen as a negative thing. It’s about knowing your worth and what you bring to a project, and never apologising for doing well.”
Turning 40: “I’m sure at some point it’s going to catch up with me, the burn of my forties, but I don’t feel it yet. It may be because I’ve stepped into a position of self-generating, so it feels like I’ve got control – I’m not just waiting for the next thing to come along.”
While this is not Blunt’s fault and it doesn’t fall on her shoulders, I hate when people within Hollywood are like “why aren’t people going to movie theaters?!?” Because it’s crazy expensive and it’s not the same as it was when people my age and Blunt’s age were in our teens. Back then, you could buy a movie ticket for less than five dollars. There was a dollar movie theater close by. The theatrical-chain monopoly has done more to destroy the theater-going experience more than anything. As for Americans not being able to pull off the “irreverence” of the Great British Bake-Offs innuendos… lord. It’s just sex jokes about baking.
Cover & IG courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar UK.
She’s tedious.
Yep!
Not sure who she’s kidding. Many Americans (including myself) get the innuendo/jokes from the Great British Baking Show/Bake-Off. And we have plenty of innuendo on this side of the pond. She is tedious.
I agree Tedious is the perfect description for EB.
The only movie of hers I’ve enjoyed was the Die Another Day movie with Tom Cruise.
She was believable as a badass military officer.
It had great special effects and watching Tom Cruise be terrified, then getting killed repeatedly was enjoyable. It was an interesting well done action flick.
But, EB and her Hubby JK are both very bland to me.
We did have to see and then buy Mary Poppins 2 bc, kids.
It was fine but nothing on the original classic.
All of that so-called innuendo she’s praising is just adolescent bathroom humor. It’s not that we Americans don’t get it the jokes, it’s that we don’t understand the repressed culture that gives rise to them. Teenage snickering about sex. Yawn.
Okay, so she might be tedious. I’m going to play the Devil Wears Prada advocate. What if the article didn’t come out as interviewed (I’m thinking how The Cut’s interview was oddly not Meghan sounding). EB’s breakout role was in The Devil Wears Prada. Written by an American. Full of innuendos. Her brother-in-law is Stanley Tucci. An American. Also, in The Devil Wears Prada. (pretty sure that’s how Stanley met & married Emily’s sister Felicity). Who, in interviews and as characters in American movies, has spoken countless innuendos.
She sounds absolutely tone deaf in this article. Two of the three people that seduced her to America’s best qualities are her children? That’s just freakin odd. She’s been around enough Americans to know we absolutely get innuendo. We get sarcasm too and are quite skilled at both. This is some nonsense.
IF this is all her, then shame on her. If, it was an edidorial decision. WhY? A Brit being happy in the US?
I like going to the movie theater and I remember the dollar movie theater. I was 16 able to drive and get to the town next to me to see them. Gas was cheap too. Now I do watch a lot of streaming which is nice but going to the movie theater for me is just so much better.
On Thursday, I listened to the movie guy, talking about new movies that were coming up in theatres around Austra. A couple were for kids to take in the last few days of school holidays .and he said it would cost an absolute bomb if you have to buy tickets for2, 3 or more children Apparently , a ticket is $25 but I am assuming that’s for an adult. $25! I remember when $25 thought you two adults tickets, a big bucket of popcorn and 2 Choc tops , and possibly even a big cup of drink to share! How much is it to see a movie in the theatre in the US these days?
@Annakist: I would say the average adult evening ticket price is US$15 for just a normal no-frills suburban theater. Closer to $20 for high-traffic theaters, brand-new popular movies, or for a decent seat in theaters that charge extra for better seats. There are theaters that offer “better” experiences with comfy chairs, drink services, etc but I’m not counting those since in IMO you do get something for extra money there. Concessions, even just a popcorn and a coke, will easily double (or more) the price.
It wasn’t that long ago (2000s) that my town had a second-run theater where you could pay $3-5 to sit on a living-room type couch with your BFF or your sweetie and see a recent movie, with beers and pizza delivery to your seat. I was there once or twice a week in grad school! It closed down long before the pandemic, a victim of streaming I guess. That was the last era in which I saw movies with any kind of regularity.
More recently, intra- and “post”- pandemic, groups of friends have started renting a theater for a “private showing.” With 30-40 people you can see a first-run movie for something like $8 a head, and you can limit the guest list to people who will wear masks or not bring kids or whatever you prefer. It’s a popular whole-class kids’ bday party event too. That’s how I saw the new Top Gun and Wakanda Forever and probably how I’ll see Barbie. Sadly, I can’t really foresee going to a movie the old-fashioned way again.
Yep, we get the innuendos, Emily! Maybe there is a difference between what’s censored and what’s not, but we get the soggy bottom jokes!
“you’d never get away with some of the innuendos over here.”
I’m pretty sure she’s commenting on the conservative norms of TV & movies in American culture, not that we wouldn’t get them. Similarly, people can swear on panel shows and TV in the UK but it gets bleeped out here.
I wouldn’t call Two and a Half Men light on innuendo, or Will and Grace, or pick from a whole list of sitcoms. And nothing gets bleeped on premium cable and streaming. The thing is that British Bake Off is incredibly tame – the most daring they get is to start adolescent giggling when anyone says the word “nuts.”
My eyes hurt from rolling back so hard. She needs to take time away from movies simply so that I can stop being irritated by her.
Darling, you’re surrounded by your wealthy peers in Brooklyn – that’s your village. Same as it would be anywhere you lived. 🙄
I’m so annoyed by these stars coming to the US and having massive success (the financial success that could not be replicated in England alone) and then constantly criticizing this country. Yes, there’s a lot to fix, but those of us that love it need you spoiled brats to leave.
Right? Nobody forced you to become a citizen or live here. You can leave. AND to do it just for tax purposes seems like a pretty privileged thing to do. Nauseating. Zero self-awareness.
As her people used to say to Meghan, if you don’t like here, you can go back to the US!
What’s keeping her in the US? she can go back to her country and enjoy their putrid press!
But, but, but, she’s SEDUCED by America’s Great Qualities!! Namely, the American tax system and that her husband and children are American citizens. What more does she need to know about the US?
vs – hard agree. Go back to your QUEEN and KING and putrid press!
As for Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy sounds fantastic, and Nolan’s writing based on “American Prometheus” also sounds awesome. But casting tedious Emily Blunt as the German-born Communist scientist Kitty Oppenheimer? Please.
For that reason alone I’ll wait to see the movie on streaming. Meanwhile, I’ll re-read “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!” and check out “American Prometheus” from library.
Are you kidding me? I was just thinking the same thing about her too. As to the “tax purposes” thing, to gloat about that when many people from across the southern boarder or the Carribean would love to get 1/2 the opportunity to become citizens with the ease that she apparently did, is just in bad taste. Then, to seemingly try to erase whatever she said in the past about her feelings about American citizenship by saying that there were now some American things she liked, like her husband and children (wow, big deal!) is just so transparent and self-involved.
The only thing I knew about her before was that she was on The Devil Wears Prada, but since she dyed her hair blond and lost enough weight to pass for Jennifer Lawrence to put her career into, I guess, Kate Winslet territory, she really is hard to take.
You nailed it. She looks exactly like Jennifer Lawrence especially with the,fillers giving her face a more rounded outline.
@Chic – meanwhile, Jennifer Lawrence has ceased looking like herself and looks like someone else entirely. It’s a game of musical faces!
She’s also, frankly, taking the jobs away from American actresses who actually want to live here and don’t make a point of complaining about it? Kitty Oppenheimer was an American scientist. There are plenty of very talented American actresses who could have played that role, who maybe needed a break-through, or just a break. But it went to Emily. I think Florence Pugh’s character is American too.
I am fine with people coming here from other countries to seek success, and attaining it. That’s the dream, right? I’m all for it. But then don’t grouse about how you’d rather be elsewhere. She’s done very, very well for herself in this country so maybe she should STFO about how she doesn’t like anything here except Brooklyn and her husband and kids.
This is… not a real problem. People from all over the world play characters from other parts of the world. American actresses are doing just fine.
I’m sorry Annel, this is a few steps off of sounding borderline xenophobic. Just because EB is British doesn’t mean the stench of “these foreigners are stealing jobs from good ol’ Americans” isn’t visible.
I am an immigrant who moved to the UK and have a job that many Brits would want to have. I’m very happy to be here, but does that mean I shouldn’t point out the UK’s many flaws and how much I miss the home I will probably never go back to? Should I shut up and be grateful for the opportunity, else be told to go home to my own country?
I think this interview is awkwardly worded and a lot of EB’s comments don’t land where she probably wants them to – she comes across as a bit air-headed but there’s nothing bad enough to warrant this kind of response. I think some people have extrapolated some of her comments to be honest.
I also miss the cinema.
My dad told me stories on going when he was a kid to see Tarzan and westerns back when movies were like a dime. And it was the memory of his childhood.
I remember going as a kid, but it was still and event. And we had the dollar theater. I remember going to a drive-in a few times. We went to go see the animated Disney the Little Mermaid and my mom still snuck in snacks because she thought they were over priced.
Now, there haven’t been as many movies that I’m excited enough to see in the theater. And it’s $15 for each ticket. Plus another $20+ for snacks.
My boyfriend does want to go to the theater to see Oppenheimer. That’s been the first one in a while.
@Kristin Actually now that everyone is saying only gay people an play gay, or Jewish people can play Jewish I think we should stick up for American actors and say only American people should play American. I’m sick of all these Brit’s like Emily and Australians like Margot Robbie playing American. Or this Cillian Irish guy playing another American. She will never cease to not bug me especially now she’s a blonde. Shes right that she’s worked enough in the last few years and should stay home with her nine and five year olds. You don’t get that time back either Emily.
Well if you are serious about that, then please no Americans or Brits playing people from all over the world anymore.
Too funny about Bake Off – we all get the “nudge, nudge wink, wink”. Whatever, another actor talking…
Here, even our local indie theater is $16.50 a ticket
We get it, we just don’t find it funny.
Does Emily go to the cinema or does she have a home theatre? People need to start asking actors that question when they start moaning about people not going to the cinema anymore.
This!! Great point.
That’s an excellent point. One of the things that stops me and Mr Tea going to the cinema is the appalling behaviour of the cinema goers. Yakking on their cell phones, talking to each other, getting up constantly to get more food. We also don’t like sitting in a cinema that has not been cleaned and we are surrounded by popcorn and discarded tortilla chips. Not only do we not need all of that, we don’t want to pay $25 for the “pleasure”.
If there’s some thing that we really want to see, we wait for it to be streamed, or we buy the DVD or Blu-ray. That’s often cheaper than the two of us going to the cinema. And we get to watch it as often as we like. And we can lend it to family
So true! Sometimes I scroll through luxury real estate listings and I’m always in awe of those home theatres. I’ve even seen ones where they have a separate room with a popcorn maker and giant jars of candy. I mean, if I had one of those in my house, I’d never leave.
One of the best fund raisers I have been to in a long time was a replicated drive in movie night. It was so much fun. The charity involved set up a huge movie screen in the parking lot of a large business, and the sound was over our car radios. At the front of the parking lot, instead of a concession stand, there were great food trucks. It was a family event so parents brought their children, some even ready for bed. They brought their cars full of quilts and pillows and everyone snuggled down to watch a children’s movie. It was so much fun and my grandchildren were able to experience the fun of a drive-in movie.
I miss drive in movie theaters. We often went as a family as it was affordable. And we were always dressed for bed because we fell asleep on the way home. I would have loved for my children to have the drive in experience but alas, all the drive ins were closed down for development. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
My childhood was all about our local Drive In! Our side of the block backed up to the Drive In property, and each house had an easement in cooperation with the owner. We each had an actual speaker set up ( like you’d place in your car window) and we all built viewing decks. This was late 60s/late 70s.We’d have friends and family over all summer… when Star Wars came out??? Wow!!! We’d walk over and get movie popcorn and snacks- my brother and I still talk about it. Best childhood memory…
My town still has its drive in theater, 2 movies for 11 bucks, bring in your own food, intermission to go to the bathroom and check out their snack bar. My only complaint is I live in NY so its only open May to October.
Oh this sounds like tremendous fun.
My town offers up a movie night once a month—everyone piles into a largest parking lot in the middle of our small shopping district and the city projects a classic film on the back wall of a two-story building. Lawn chairs, folding loungers, kiddos in wagons—all enjoying whatever munchies from home or sold by local vendors. Everyone behaves, too. It’s such a treat.
I’m wavering about seeing Oppenheimer in the theatre. Tickets start at $20, plus I admit that every time I’m in a movie house, I look around to see if there is anyone acting suspicious—lots of guns in my state.
I don’t know if they still do it, but the city of Ashland, Oregon would hold movie nights in Lithia Park in the summers. They’d show silent movies! Those were so much fun. I remember The Black Pirate, with Douglas Fairbanks. That’s the one where he zooms down a ship’s sail with a dagger. Wowzers! My other strong memory of that is getting bit to h*ll & gone by mosquitoes, as the park is set alongside Lithia Creek.
I was never a movie theater person I was always the one who could wait till I can watch them at home, but I do love a drive-in movies. Cinema in the Park is also something I’ve been loving for years to do in the summer it’s so fun.
I came from a large family and we didn’t have money, but we did get to go to the drive-in once in a while. I have such good memories of those movies. We would be in pajamas (until we got older). Mom always made sure we had lots of popcorn. Those really were good times, and I’m sorry that kids today don’t have that.
I am surprised that she is only 40.
I thought she was 45-46.
Same age as Princess of Wales and frankly looks a ton better than Kate.
She’s always read as “older” to me, even though she’s only two years older than me. I remember being 26 and shocked that she was only 28…at the time I thought she was in her mid thirties, at least. Even though she came up later, she always seemed much older than peers like Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel.
Ugh, she always has the most sour look on her face.
I adore Noel’s remarks on the baking show – he is hilarious, but the rest of them are tedious.
John Krasinski was good as affable Jim on The Office but he’s a terrible dramatic actor. I’ve tried to watch his Jack Ryan stuff but he just wanders around looking constipated. These two make a good couple.
She’s admitted she has resting b*tch face, it’s not deliberate.
I just find her so supercilious, and it’s like she’s rubbing her Englishness in everyone’s face.
Jaded, I think that’s her British culture. If there’s one thing that’s become evident to me, it’s that the British tend to look down on Americans. This is never going to go over well with Americans. According to her, Americans are unable to understand inuendo. Seriously?
@Saucy&Sassy — Having spent a lot of time in England, I agree, and I’m Canadian but often was referred to as a “colonial”. I’d say “we stopped being colonials in 1867″…SMH.
Mexico?! Los Alamos is in New Mexico which became a state in 1912. I wonder if this is the ignorance of the writer? Blunt was in Sicario part of which was filmed in NM, also another film with Amy Adams. My friend’s son’s house in Albuquerque was featured in that movie. AA and EB played forensic cleaners, y’know those people who clean up buildings after violent crimes.
It’s a typo. She says New Mexico in the article.
@Beech: I spotted that, too! I see from @Twin Falls that was a typo. I wasn’t sure, because when I worked in New Mexico (four months), so many of my co-workers told me they’d have friends say they want to visit & do they need a passport? It’s New Mexico! It’s a State!
@Beech: was that Sunshine Cleaners? I loved that movie!
Just here to say- man, did we love our dollar theatre in college. Early 90s, saw lots of great movies for a dollar. Including Jurassic park.
Yep. I so miss dollar theaters and drive-ins. Saw so many great movies for a dollar and the entire family could go for the price of one regular theater admission.
“Mexico’s Los Alamos”?! Los Alamos is in New Mexico which became a state in 1912. This better be ignorance on the part of the writer as Blunt filmed parts of two films in NM. Sicario was one, the other, a film that disappeared upon release, with Amy Adams. My friend’s son’s Albuquerque house was used in filming for three days. Mexico, Los Alamos, smh.
She is insufferable. We are in an economic crisis manufactured by greedy corporations who refuse to pay workers a living wage (minimum $23 per hour) but who have no problem paying millions to their executives who don’t actually do anything. Hollywood and movie theaters are some of the worst who exploit workers.
Meanwhile, workers are working for low pay and many of them have multiple jobs which doesn’t leave a lot of time for frivolous things like buying an expensive movie ticket and spending hours (traveling to/from the theater, standing in line to get a ticket, standing in line to get into the theater, watching previews, watching a movie) just to watch a film.
And don’t get me started on the ableism of her attitude. Many people have physical issues that make theater going problematic (at best) and now with a gorram pandemic many people are rightfully concerned about airborne germs. A lot of us don’t want to risk getting sick (from any germs) just to “experience” a movie in a theater. Add in how audience behavior has radically changed to a level of obnoxiousness that makes watching a movie in the theater as insufferable as Emily is.
Streaming is cheaper, easier, and more convenient. All industries change and she and Hollywood need to accept that and really take an honest look at the business model.
But sure, the audience is the problem.
Maybe Ms. Well Paid Actor Married To Another Well Paid Actor (and good for them!) should reflect on the real reason why people don’t go to movie theaters.
Also, when was the last time Emily set foot in a movie theater?
Also, the jokes on GBBO are stupid. It’s like there are two shows combined into one: One show is bakers competing to win and one show is comedians telling stupid innuendo jokes (which are obvious to anyone over 14 years old).
Ugh.
Given that Indiana Jones and M:I 7 are proving disappointments box-office wise, it ain’t the audiences at fault. 😛 How much more proof do studios need that audiences are tired of endlessly recycled IP? Something innovative needs to be done soon, for between the strikes, this news, high prices, and theaters still struggling, the whole industry could easily collapse from inertia.
My husband and I treated ourselves to the last Indy movie. One of our first dates was Raiders. We’ve been married 36 years.
We benefited from senior prices, but it was still close to $40 for 2. It was one of the new leather recliner type, and we ordered food/drinks as date afternoon. That was another $60.
Emily. It’s a splurge.
I do like those recliner seats! Alas, the town I live in now doesn’t have those in the theaters.
Gawd.
Blunt is such a good actress and I want to like her but she’s making it really, really difficult.
Em, we don’t laugh at the jokes on GBBO because they’re not funny. She thinks Americans don’t laugh because we don’t get it? 🙄
Like I said about Brian Cox, if Emily is so unhappy with living in the US then she should move to another country that she will be happy in. She has the money to live anywhere in the world why be so miserable? At the end of the day, this was a discussion she and her husband should have had before getting married and having kids.
Her attitude makes me wonder if she and Brian Cox don’t share other views as well.
Agree Coco! Also I feel bad for the lovely Brooklyn-ites who have to be among these elites snobs. I remember when Brooklyn was supposed to be a diverse, working class area. Now it seems it’s where all the snobs who hate the rest of America live.
She plays Cillian Murphy’s wife in the movie? To me, they look like brother and sister. Weird casting.
My birthday is coming and I’ll be spending my annual cinema allowance at Barbie instead. Although my movie club usually gifts me free popcorn for my birthday, I rarely go these days because it’s so frigging expensive now. Like a lot of you, I remember the dollar theaters and I used to go to them all the time. Hell, when I first moved to NYC in the mid-naughts, I could still buy a movie ticket for $8. Now it’s like $18. For one person!
I do miss the drive-in experience. In high school, there was still one in our area, and my friends and I would all cram into the bed of a truck and watch. That, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show were cornerstones of my high school experience.
I live in Los Angeles, where we still have a lot of great movie theatres. We’ve been going to the Alamo to see movies, and there’s something about the communal experience that is visceral and gives me joy (much like live music).
I don’t find comments tedious. Americans have a deeply self-centric view of our country and the world. And I think it’s perfectly normal to have some regret about not living in the country of your birth. It’s part of immigrant identity, and she’s an immigrant. She’s seeing her children grow up without the touchstones and culture she grew up in, and she has some regret about it.
Plus, Los Angeles is hard. It’s hard to build community here. Everything is so far, and you have to battle so much traffic, and there’s an awareness of celebrity here that doesn’t happen as much in other places. I mean, I have close friends who I won’t see for years because they live on the wrong side of the 405, and life is just really busy. It’s hard to understand unless you live here.
I miss going to the movies also. There were so many different types of movies out, and on Christmas Day evening, we would all go to the movies. COVID happened, and with the cost, it has to be worth it, but there’s not as much to see from a variation standpoint. And that began happening before COVID. I couldn’t care less about comic book movies unless it’s Spiderman. I’ve gone to big comic book franchise movies because of my family, though. But getting out and meeting up with friends for movies we want to see as opposed to my significant other was also a treat. I miss the communal experience. I get what she’s saying. I will start doing it more when I can find movies I want to see and support. I’ve gone to a few since the pandemic.
Certainly the US may have its issues but there is one truth that can’t be denied by this very wealthy actress.
If you are an American, you are a citizen, if you are British, you are a subject.
No, we’re UK citizens, not subjects. (There’s a small number of people who are British subjects but it’s less than 40,000 people, who were all born before 1949.)
I’m super surprised at the vitriol she’s getting for having a fondness for her home country and thinking that parts of living there are better than living here. People make these comparisons all of the time when they move from one place to another, even just from one neighborhood to a different one in the same city.
Right?!? The if you don’t like it here get out of our country is It’s so extra and very right wing conservative.
Like I shared in my comments I appreciate her vulnerability and her sweet words about Duchess Meghan in a different interview.
Totally agree. If she was an actress from India or Kenya or Japan saying these things, I don’t think anyone would mind so much? It’s her home country; of course she’s going to miss it.
Totally agree. If she was an actress from India or Kenya or Japan saying these things, I don’t think anyone would mind so much? It’s her home country; of course she’s going to miss it.
People have to move for work opportunities all the time. I moved from one place in California to another at one point, and the work was mostly great, and I had some friends and a little community. Still, that place never felt like home.
If I’d met someone from there who was unable to move back or didn’t want to move back, I would have had to make the same choice.
It’s not so much what she said as the fact that she says it (or some variation on it) in every single interview.
She’s spent around a decade moaning about it.
Someone upthread called her tedious. I concur.
It doesn’t stop being her home country though, she lived there for a long time, and she still has family there. It’s weird to put some kind of time limit on talking about where you’re from. The idea that she should just shut up and be more grateful to be in the U.S. is kind of gross.
As a New Mexican I need to correct that Los Alamos (where this film was shot and took place) is in New Mexico, not Mexico. Not sure what’s up with that typo but we are actually a beautiful and diverse state and not part of Mexico lol! She seems fine I guess. What’s up with all these Brits hating on America except for Brooklyn?! I’m sure Brooklyn is great but we have so much beauty and diversity all over if you look.
I appreciate her vulnerability about moving here and really missing home. I’ve always liked Emily and appreciate how sweet she was about Duchess Meghan in a separate interview.
I am a proud American. Let’s not pretend it’s so f!cking fabulous living here. Roe v. Wade snatched away. Affirmative Action snatched away. That Trash Trump was ever elected president? Some of y’all need to chill.
I know plenty of Americans who look down on other Americans.
The idea of a line up and one’s place in a line up is baked in to our unconscious from an early age.
No one is saying that the US is perfect or even close, but she has been complaining about it for over 8 plus years it’s getting old and like I and others have said if she is so miserable she has the money to move to wherever will make her happy.
Hell, even unhappy Americans that have the money or can move out of the U.S. do and find happiness elsewhere.
Also should we talk about rich people like Emily and Brian Cox moving to Brooklyn helping to gentrify it and pushing the mostly black and other out.
I’m an Emily Blunt fan. I think she gets a rough ride here on Celebitchy. I do recall her comments about watching the Trump/Biden debates on the evening that she recieved her American citizenship and that it made her pause and question the decision. It was a joke on a late night show that fell flat. Truth be told, I would have had the same misgivings. The debates were insanity.
I’m a Canadian. As your neighbour I read about your SCC decisions on access to abortion, Trump’s election, the Jan 6 insurrection, mass shootings, anti lqbt policies and Black Lives matter issues. It’s a lot to process, digest. I’m hoping that Emily Blunt tries to steer clear of these topics in the future as magazine interviews and late night talk shows are not the greatest forum.
She’s sharing and being vulnerable. Hardly like Brian Cox but you see what you want.
@ girl_ninja
How is it different?
Brian complains about how much he hates living an American for years.
Emily complains about how much he hates living in America for years.
So in your eyes Emily has been being “ vulnerable” for years while Brian’s is just an ass???
Or are you not seeing that it’s the same because she was sweet to Duchess Meghan.
@ girl_ninja
How is it different?
Brian Cox – Spends years complaining about how much he hates living in America.
Emily – Spends years complaining about how much she hates living in America.
So for you, Emily sent years is being “vulnerable” while Brain is just a jerk???
@ Ms single malt
Her complaints date back before 2015 and I don’t think any care about a joke about the Trump/Biden debates. I’m also not sure what you’re being Canadian and living in Canada has to do with anything.
How is it different?
Brian Cox – Spends years complaining about how much he hates living in America.
Emily – Spends years complaining about how much she hates living in America.
So for you, Emily sent years is being “vulnerable” while Brain is just a jerk???
Her complaints go back before 2015 and I don’t think any care about a joke about the Trump/Biden debates. I’m also not sure what your being Canadian and living in Canada has to do with anything.
DP 😌
I used to really enjoy going to the movies at the local theater. It was fun, and a weekly activity/treat.
But the cost, + the cost of treats, the surround sound is far too loud in general and I recall watching John Wick in a packed theater with my fingers in my ears due to the noise.
In addition to the fact that most folks have no manners now. Talking, texting, phone ringing, feet up on the seats in front, etc. It is just too expensive and too much aggro.
Not even Keanu can get me into a theater now.
I am streaming only since the original JW, which has to be 8+ years ago.
I know Emily is PR for Oppenheimer but I find Rosamund Pike a more interesting British actor.
It’s not just even the cost of a ticket, but sound mixing used to be less overpowering.
You could actually hear the dialogue and there were even quiet or almost silent parts in movies. Nowadays every single millisecond must have wisecracking dialogue or overpowering noise or music. So I have to watch everything with subtitles and the subtitled movie offering is abysmal.
I looked up Barbie movie and only 2 of the 3 cinemas within 30 minutes drive offer it for 1!!! single screening out of almost 100 during the next 2 weeks and of course both are exactly the same time.
I might have to wait again for streaming rental.
At least Dungeons and Dragons had a few subtitled offerings.
Yeah, I hear you on the inability to understand dialogue that film makers rushed through in filming hoping to be able to resurrect it post-production. I’ve read that AMC Theaters had been using open captioning at certain showings. But you can also get closed captioning on smartphone from iPhone App Store and Google Play. Have never used it myself so I can’t vouch for it. Hope it helps. https://playbill.com/article/theatre-accessibility-smartphone-app-galapro-acquired-by-the-shubert-organization
Thanks
I live in the Uk and there is a website to look up subtitled screenings. Normally Vue offers one at least once a week, but I couldnt see any, only AD (audio described).
I’m normally ok with theatre plays as you can hear the dialogue quite well. if I do go and see a musical (very rarely), they often have at least one subtitled show at my local one.
but if you watch a movie from 20 years ago and now. it’s such a difference, especially Marvel type ones. Sooooo Much Noise
Humor, innuendo, sarcasm, irony, etc. ALL take a lot of context. Any kind of humor famously doesn’t travel well because of all the cultural knowledge/familiarity it takes to appreciate. So it’s b.s. that Americans don’t “get” innuendo. I’m sure there’s plenty of American innuendo that the British wouldn’t get because it’s not in their wheelhouse. So this just comes off as English snobbishness about the American intellect that, frankly, is boorish, IMO. Also, she no longer looks like herself. No innuendo there–just direct observation.
A nit but an important one I think given the topic — Los Alamos is in New Mexico, US, not Mexico. I hope she knew that but she should have esp for this project…
Since she’s taking a year off, I’m hoping she takes time off from the fillers, too, and starts looking like herself again.
I 100% agree with one of the above commenters.To me, Americans playing American roles is about the authenticity. You go back to 80s and early 90s movies and Americans played Americans and it seems more real and iconic. The demographic has definitely changed now and in many shows there’s more diversity in the cast than before. I love when there is a diverse cast and I think Disney, Amazon and Netflix are trying to do more shows like this. Some of the hottest Gen-Zers for example are Zendaya, Olivia Rodrigo and Jenna Ortega. All diverse.
No one complains when James Bond needs to be from the UK or the Harry Potter Kids needs to also be from the UK. Which I agree it’s more authentic . But at the same time, love having a diverse cast from people all over the world playing themselves instead of having to fake a US accent.
With that said, re Emily Blunt she’s just a typical Brit who is condescending to Americans . I remembered Rachel Weisz had some condescending things to say about Americans during one of the Late night shows- a stereotype she recalls that Americans aren’t smart . Or another Brit actor, forgot who exactly , saying they have to tone down the script because Americans will never understand. It’s Nothing new and that’s why more Americans are just getting sour of their arrogance. One day, we’ll take away the goodwill welcome mat that the Brits have been enjoying for Years 😀.