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15 Fascinating Facts About Emily Blunt, Because We All Love Her So Much

Emily Blunt Trivia

15 Fascinating Facts About Emily Blunt, Because We All Love Her So Much

Emily Blunt Trivia
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Let us count the ways that Emily Blunt is an absolute icon. She's an award-winning actress, her marriage to John Krasinski is total couple goals, she's starred in a wide variety of movies alongside Hollywood legends, and she never fails to look fantastic on the red carpet! And, of course, her most recent project is an iconic role all on its own: taking over the role of the most famous nanny in pop culture in Mary Poppins Returns.

Blunt likes to keep her day-to-day life out of the spotlight — she famously avoids social media — but she's told plenty of fun stories in interviews over the years. Read through to check out some of the most interesting, funniest, and most honest revelations about Blunt, from Blunt herself!

Although Blunt was born in the UK, she became a naturalized citizen of the US in 2015 and holds dual citizenship. As a child, Blunt worked through a stutter, which actually increased her interest in performing. "It started quite young, because it was the only tool I had to speak properly. I was that kid, upstairs in my room, trying out stuff in the mirror. But I'd never tell anyone about it." Blunt's first professional role came at age 18, when she played Dame Judi Dench's granddaughter in the play The Royal Family.
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  • Although Blunt was born in the UK, she became a naturalized citizen of the US in 2015 and holds dual citizenship.
  • As a child, Blunt worked through a stutter, which actually increased her interest in performing. "It started quite young, because it was the only tool I had to speak properly. I was that kid, upstairs in my room, trying out stuff in the mirror. But I'd never tell anyone about it."
  • Blunt's first professional role came at age 18, when she played Dame Judi Dench's granddaughter in the play The Royal Family.
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Ever the versatile performer, Blunt has a knack for mimicry and impressions! Blunt prefers Brooklyn, where she and her family currently live, to Los Angeles, preferring the feeling of "brushing past strangers on the street" in "a vibrant, bustling city where you don't feel isolated." If she weren't acting, Blunt says she'd flip houses for a living if she could. "It would be my dream just to flip houses. I adore renovating. I love working with different materials and coming up with a different story for each room. I am Pinterest-mad."
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  • Ever the versatile performer, Blunt has a knack for mimicry and impressions!
  • Blunt prefers Brooklyn, where she and her family currently live, to Los Angeles, preferring the feeling of "brushing past strangers on the street" in "a vibrant, bustling city where you don't feel isolated."
  • If she weren't acting, Blunt says she'd flip houses for a living if she could. "It would be my dream just to flip houses. I adore renovating. I love working with different materials and coming up with a different story for each room. I am Pinterest-mad."
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She met husband John Krasinski in 2008 and they married in 2010. The couple have two daughters: Hazel (born 2014) and Violet (born 2016) Despite working in Hollywood at the same time, Krasinski and Blunt never worked together on a project until 2018's hit thriller A Quiet Place, wanting to keep their careers separate. Their first date? A casual pizza night, plus something Blunt calls "so precious, I don't want to talk about it."
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  • She met husband John Krasinski in 2008 and they married in 2010.
  • The couple have two daughters: Hazel (born 2014) and Violet (born 2016)
  • Despite working in Hollywood at the same time, Krasinski and Blunt never worked together on a project until 2018's hit thriller A Quiet Place, wanting to keep their careers separate.
  • Their first date? A casual pizza night, plus something Blunt calls "so precious, I don't want to talk about it."
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The costar Blunt has worked with the most? That would be none other than Meryl Streep, who has costarred with Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada, Into The Woods, and Mary Poppins Returns. Mary Poppins Returns also marks her reunion with Into The Woods director Rob Marshall. Blunt's biggest challenge working on these musicals was "the dancing, probably!"
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  • The costar Blunt has worked with the most? That would be none other than Meryl Streep, who has costarred with Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada, Into The Woods, and Mary Poppins Returns.
  • Mary Poppins Returns also marks her reunion with Into The Woods director Rob Marshall.
  • Blunt's biggest challenge working on these musicals was "the dancing, probably!"
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To avoid accidentally copying Julie Andrews's version of Mary Poppins, Blunt based her interpretation on the P.L. Travers novels, as well as the 1940s screwball comedy His Girl Friday. "[Mary Poppins] thinks she's better than everyone – which she is... I think the pace at which she speaks and the way in which she speaks is a way to hold people at arm's length and not over-sentimentalise moments." One of Blunt's favourite parts about filming Mary Poppins Returns was sharing a few off-camera moments with returning star Dick Van Dyke. "Between takes, he'd put his hand on my arm and sing, 'It's a jolly holiday with Mary'."
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  • To avoid accidentally copying Julie Andrews's version of Mary Poppins, Blunt based her interpretation on the P.L. Travers novels, as well as the 1940s screwball comedy His Girl Friday. "[Mary Poppins] thinks she's better than everyone – which she is... I think the pace at which she speaks and the way in which she speaks is a way to hold people at arm's length and not over-sentimentalise moments."
  • One of Blunt's favourite parts about filming Mary Poppins Returns was sharing a few off-camera moments with returning star Dick Van Dyke. "Between takes, he'd put his hand on my arm and sing, 'It's a jolly holiday with Mary'."
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