Emily Blunt- 'We only accept one type of woman in the cinema'

The actress reveals that the real challenge during the filming of 'The Girl on the Train' was hiding the pregnancy from her director

Talking to Emily Blunt isn't talking to a star. It's talking to a mother. "I've gotten used to the zoo and I wouldn't back down for the world," The zoo she refers to includes her two daughters, Violeta, just over three months old, and Hazel, two years old. Her husband is also stellar: John Krasinski, whom she married at George Clooney's residence in Lake Como (Italy). Family apart, the actress has a career in which there is no genre that she can resist.

She to date she has succeeded in everything. From his American debut in a comedy like The Devil Wears Prada (2006) to his work in the action drama Sicario (2015), Blunt has sung in Into the Woods (2015) and has shadowed Tom Cruise in Edge. of tomorrow (2014). About her latest work as an alcoholic Rachel with memory problems that she plays in The Girl on the Train there are already rumors of a possible Oscar nomination. But she prefers to continue talking about her family. "The real challenge of this movie was to hide that she was pregnant," she says.

Blunt's mind during filming was concerned with hiding her status from the director in order to perform the role she wanted. “I found out she was pregnant a week before we started shooting in October and didn't tell her until January, when she started to show. I'm sorry, Tate [Taylor]!” she apologizes to herself in hindsight. With her slim physique, even now it seems impossible to think that she gave birth a few months ago.

She exudes false humility with that British propriety that she exudes despite the fact that she already has American citizenship. Blunt, 33, landed the leading role in the film against all odds, amid a sea of criticism among readers of this bestseller (15 million copies sold worldwide) who considered her too beautiful for the worked. She knew what to tell them; them, the writer Paula Hawkins and her director. “It's true that I'm lucky enough to be able to choose what I want to play,” she acknowledges, “but I also did it because it seems that we only accept a certain type of woman as the lead in our films. In the cinema, women have to be nice, beautiful or ready to star in a successful film. And I am interested in other things. Like Rachel in The Girl on the Train”, she summarizes. “Furthermore, I am more and more picky about what I want because with such young children it is difficult to organize. Any working mother knows that.

She doesn't stop. She is already preparing for her next job, something as different as the role of Mary Poppins in the remake of the Walt Disney classic directed by Rob Marshall. As she says it, a breath of fresh air. “I have my own Irish Mary Poppins, Tina, who helps me with my children,” she explains, bringing the conversation back to her family.

But the filming of Mary Poppins Returns will allow Blunt to return to his native London. Living in the Big Apple for a few years, she missed British pubs and fish & chips. But what she misses the most is her family. “When we get together we are good at guessing movies. We are the loudest,” she says. Her father is attorney Oliver Blunt; her mother, Joana, a teacher and ex-actress, and she has a sister, Felicity, who works as a literary agent and with whom she played matchmaker introducing him to fellow actor Stanley Tucci, now her brother-in-law. With her brother Sebastian she also shares her profession. Admirer like many others of Julie Andrews, actress who immortalized the character of P.L. Travers, Blunt received the news that she would be the new magical nanny with a mixture of “joy and horror”. But someone who got into acting as a way to get over her stutter doesn't shy away from having to say supercalifragilisticoespialidoso: "I'll just have to find my own voice."