Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling spent much of the past fortnight promoting The Fall Guy, a big-budget action-comedy. The production cost $130 million… and the film opened with $25 million domestically, and $36.9 million internationally. I find that respectable and the film will probably make a tidy profit, all told. But these days, studios expect to make up their costs on the opening weekend, so these numbers are not being well-received. I do wonder if it’s a promotional issue though – would you say that Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt really got out there and hustled like crazy for the film? I’m not sure. Anyway, here’s a leftover interview from Emily – she appeared on The Howard Stern Show last week, and she spoke about the difference between having chemistry on-screen versus off-screen.

Emily Blunt is getting candid about what happens when an actor doesn’t quite mesh with a castmate — especially filming romantic scenes. During an appearance on The Howard Stern Show on April 30, the British actress, 41, opened up about how she builds chemistry with her fellow actors for each of her movies. She revealed to host Howard Stern that on multiple occasions, “I’ve had chemistry with people I haven’t liked.”

When Stern, 70, came right out and asked her, “Who?” Blunt responded simply, “I’m not gonna tell you.”

“I have had chemistry with people who… I have not had a good time working with them,” she said, still refusing to reveal any names. “Sometimes it’s a strange thing. Sometimes you could have a rapport that’s really effortless, but it doesn’t translate onscreen. Chemistry is this strange thing. It’s an ethereal thing that you can’t really bottle up and buy or sell. It’s like there or it’s not. It’s just easier when you have a natural rapport with someone.”

Blunt also spoke about some tactics she uses to find chemistry with a costar when there isn’t much — such as attempting to find something she likes about her fellow actor in order to try and create a better rapport on camera.

“I’ve got to find something I love about everybody. I have to find something … Even if it’s one thing,” she told Stern. “It might be that they have a nice laugh or I like how they speak to people. They’re polite. I mean, it might be something random,” she continued. “But find something you love about that person or something you love about them as the character and then kind of lean into that.”

Despite her attempts to spark chemistry between her and her romantic counterpart’s characters, Blunt said that some moments on set have been downright gross.

“Have you wanted to throw up?” Stern asked Blunt about kissing a fellow actor on set, to which she replied: “Absolutely. Absolutely. I wouldn’t say it’s sort of extreme loathing, but I’ve definitely not enjoyed some of it,” she added.

[From People]

I don’t even think of Emily as an actress known for being a romantic lead or known for having chemistry with her costars. She absolutely has chemistry with actors off-screen, out in the real world, but she’s right that it doesn’t always translate on-screen. Like, she and Cillian Murphy had nothing between them in Oppenheimer and that really took me out of the film for a moment – they seemed so poorly matched and SHE seemed so miscast. She’s absolutely right about actors having hot chemistry on screen when they don’t get along in real life too, that happens all the time.

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