These are photos of Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at the London photocall for Edge of Tomorrow. Emily is wearing a flirty, slightly retro Oscar de La Renta dress. Tom is wearing the sportiest sport coat of all time and some super shiny lifts. They’re both ready for this tour, but Tom is taking a back seat to Emily so far. Maybe that was part of the deal. Emily gets to be in a huge, potentially blockbuster action movie, but she’s the one doing the interviews.

Tom hasn’t said a word to the media in months, which is just as well. Last year was an utter disaster for his media image. He squirmed through deposition-gate, and his former publicist dished the dirt. Tom’s trying to present an image of a reticent, mysterious movie star. We know better. I also don’t know if Emily can sell this movie on her own. She’s perfectly charming, but she’s not a big star. We’ll see how this goes in a few weeks.

Emily sat down with the Telegraph. The interview is decent, but my favorite part is where the journo brings up something snarky Emily said about Tom Cruise movies a few years ago. Emily tried to deny saying anything bad, but then the journo whipped out a hard copy of an old interview. Ouch:

The moment of truth: A few years ago Emily Blunt said that she would rather do badly paid theatre for the rest of her life than ever accept a role “as a spear carrier in a Tom Cruise movie.” On the eve of the opening of her new sci-fi action flick Edge of Tomorrow with, er, Tom Cruise, I remind her of this statement. “I never said that! What an awful thing to say.” I pull out the newspaper clipping (an interview in The Telegraph in 2005) and she roars with laughter. “That is so funny. Well, at least I’m not a spear carrier.”

She’s normal: “I don’t feel I lead a glamorous life. Most of the people we’re friends with are people you can just hang out with. You should have seen us this morning. It was … well, not chaos, but like everyone else in the morning with a small baby. [John Krasinski] is the diaper king. We’re both hands-on all the time.”

She always hated her last name: “Because we all know what it rhymes with. But my English agent at the time said, ‘Don’t, it’s so memorable.’ Every male actor I work with always ends up just calling me ‘Blunt’.”

Working with Tom: “We laughed a lot. That’s the wonderful thing about Tom: he doesn’t take himself that seriously and he is very self-effacing. He couldn’t care less what people think about him — that’s quite refreshing. I was aware that it was going to be so challenging and so physically hard, and I was programmed into thinking it was going to be a bit ‘boys’ club’, but I’ve never been on a film as collaborative as this — everyone was so encouraging, and I was consistently emboldened to speak up and to disagree. I learnt this really lethal martial art called Krav Maga — it’s the Israeli martial art. You use your elbows, knees and teeth.”

Getting back into shape after baby: “I got back on the rower this morning for the first time [since Hazel was born]. I only managed five minutes. And I managed to squeeze on my jeans for the first time today too.”

She wants more kids: “I’m from a big family and John is one of three so I think we definitely would [have more]. [Ojai] is such an escape. We have land and space and beautiful trees and the air is clean.”

The paparazzi: “They’re outside our house every day in LA, but don’t want to pay for the petrol to come here. Also we don’t tend to leave the house much — so they could wait for days. They followed [John] to the gym and one guy was driving really dangerously, rushing red lights. So John was like, ‘I’m going to take a picture of his car.’ He got out and the guy was going, ‘Hey John, how ya doing, man?’ And then he saw John take a picture of his licence plate and he turned instantly aggressive: ‘You f— c—, what’s your problem, man?’ John just started laughing — that’s the hilarity of what they do, as soon as you turn a camera on them they are paranoid, angry and openly aggressive.”

She & John wills stay in the states: “Our lives are here, all our friends are here. I [do] miss the irreverence of the British.”

[From Telegraph]

Hahaha. Emily really got called out for dissing Tom movies, but she recovered well. That must have been super embarrassing for her, and I do give her credit for making it through the rest of the interview. Some actors would have cut the talk short or at least taken a break.

I’ve included photos of Tom and Emily entering the Chiltern Firehouse restaurant in London last week. Tom looks awkward, but at least it’s not another sex club.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Pacific Coast News & WENN