Over the years, Emily Blunt has earned herself enough recognition and praise through her outstanding performances across various genres. As Ryan Gosling likes to put it, she brings that “Blunt force” to her pieces, ensuring to leave an impression on her viewers. Perhaps this was the very reason why she earned her breakthrough within 3 years of her onscreen debut in the film industry.
This breakout in Hollywood came through the 2006 fan-favorite comedy-musical masterpiece The Devil Wears Prada. But the way she bagged this role was nothing short of iconic either. As it turns out, at the time of her audition, Blunt was met with a real-life emergency, though the actress seems to credit the same for making her icy performance seem all the more authentic.
Emily Blunt Credits Her Emergency for Scoring Her The Devil Wears Prada
In 2003, Emily Blunt made her official onscreen television debut with the action-war TV movie, Boudica. Within two years, she was scouted for the film Gideon’s Daughter, which won her the first Golden Globe of her star-studded career. But while that was that, her true breakthrough came through 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada – a film she feels was given to her due to her emergency.
As it turns out, back then, when she went to audition for the role, the Oppenheimer actress was in a hurry to catch a flight and was terribly stressed out about missing it. This urgency of the situation made Blunt’s already icy and mean audition as her character Emily Charlton even more contemptible. That said, the actress feels it may have helped her score the role.
In an appearance on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, she joked about the same, saying, “Maybe it helped that I was strait-jacketed with time concerns and clearly in a pretty amped-up state anyway, which lends itself to the desperation of that character.” Well, either way, it most certainly seems to have all worked out in her favor, considering how her performance won her a BAFTA and Golden Globe nomination.
Meanwhile, Emily Blunt in the Film Failed to Amuse Her Daughters
Of course, The Devil Wears Prada will forever be regarded as one of Blunt’s best performances to date, since it not only landed her her breakthrough in Hollywood, but even made her a nominee for some star-studded accolades. But when it comes to her young daughters’ opinion of her character in the film, the score may as well be considered incredibly low and critical.
Talking to Page Six at the 18th Annual American Institute for Stuttering gala, The Fall Guy actress confessed the same as she shared how her daughters Hazel, 10, and Violet, 7, reacted disappointingly to Blunt’s incredibly cold and icy version of Emily Charlton in the masterpiece. “They thought I was the meanest person they’ve ever met,” the actress said.
Well, we’re sure they thought that way because Blunt may as well not have been blunt-er than how she was in the Meryl Streep-starrer!
The Devil Wears Prada can currently be watched on Prime Video.
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