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• Emily Blunt The Hollywood Reporter Interview Video & Captures

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• Emily Blunt Films ‘N ‘The Young Victoria’ Interview Captures & Video

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• Associated Press Movie Review: ‘The Young Victoria’

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The first Queen Elizabeth has been the It Girl of the British monarchy in recent times in Hollywood. Queen Victoria now gets royal treatment with a fresh film biography starring Emily Blunt as the empire’s longest-reigning ruler in her early years.

“The Young Victoria” is good, old-fashioned period drama — not terribly lively, not terribly insightful, but rich in pageantry and fine moments of drama, the whole show hinging on a beguiling performance from Blunt.

We’ve see Blunt as a very modern (and often very funny) woman in “Sunshine Cleaning,” her scene-stealing turn in “The Devil Wears Prada” and other films.

She’s just as engaging as queen bee of the corset crowd, bringing endearing zest, impetuousness and imprudence to this woman who eventually would grow into a symbol of sober, imperious widowhood for much of her time on the throne.

Working from a crisp, straightforward screenplay by Julian Fellowes (“Gosford Park”), director Jean-Marc Vallee introduces Victoria at age 17, shortly before the death of her uncle, King William, (Jim Broadbent, pricelessly raving against the schemers jockeying for power in the coming succession of his niece).

Chief among the palace plotters are Victoria’s insufferable mother (Miranda Richardson) and her opportunistic counsel, Conroy (Mark Strong), who’s angling to be named regent while the heir-apparent grows into the job of queen.

As Victoria ascends to power, Blunt captures a nice balance of ambivalence and backbone, a teen raised in wallflower isolation taking her first lessons in absolute power — and recognizing that she’s got a knack for it.

These machinations are paralleled by ploys from afar as Victoria’s uncle, King Leopold of Belgium (Thomas Kretschmann), grooms his nephew and her cousin, Albert (Rupert Friend), to woo the future monarch.

If this were a fictional romance, Albert would be the unctuous pretender, a politically expedient candidate that the lady rejects in favor of true love with some dark horse suitor. • Continue Reading?

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• Emily Blunt: ‘Victoria loved sex’

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The Young Victoria star Emily Blunt has suggested that the monarch she plays in the movie “loved sex”.

The British actress, who secured a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the period drama, told Time Out that Queen Victoria made “highly sexed” diary entries.

She said: “I’ve done some Q&As where people have said, ‘Well, the reason that Victoria had so many children was because typhoid was very prevalent in that time’, and I’m like, ‘Or, she loved sex! Either one!’”

Blunt added that that she was surprised when first approached to play the longest-serving British monarch.

“I was like, ‘Really, guys? Really? Overweight old lady’,” she commented. “Nothing screams ‘Emily Blunt’ like Queen Victoria! But I started reading about her when she was younger, and it was sort of the polar opposite. She was so vivacious and had such a zealous approach to life. She was kind of rebellious.”

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• Emily Blunt takes a royal turn in The Young Victoria

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Emily Blunt lived in Vancouver for several years before moving away in 2008, but because those years were spent with her ex, CanCon crooner and die-hard Canucks fan Michael Bublé, she’s not keen to share any Vancouver memories.

In an interview with theGeorgia Straight in a downtown hotel room during the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, the 26-year-old British actor—best known for her role inThe Devil Wears Prada—explains, “I think when you move on from a chapter of your life, you just move on to the next one, so I’ve never been one to reminisce that much.”

In The Young Victoria, which opens Friday (December 18) in Vancouver, Blunt plays the title character in a story that begins just before Victoria became a teen queen at age 18. The film, a mix of love story, political intrigue, and family drama, was scripted by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and produced by the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson. It seems like the perfect BBC–sponsored costume drama—but the director was Quebec’s Jean-Marc Vallée, making for a totally out-of-left-field follow-up to his smash hit C.R.A.Z.Y.

“Jean-Marc created an atmospheric set that was really transporting,” Blunt says. “Just the way he had the set: he’d have music playing, but modern music… I think he wanted this to be a relatable film, and I think often period films can distance people, as they’re quite stuffy. So he was wonderful in that way.”

Blunt says the spark for the film came from Ferguson. “I think she had very much been within that world, so [she] understood it and understood the pressures of it—feeling like an outsider. I think she very much had a certain sympathy with [Prince] Albert, or empathy with Albert and what Albert went through by not being entitled. He was never allowed to be king and was constantly being usurped by his wife. But I think she [Ferguson] was really excited to have the idea and then hand it over to us.”

For Blunt, the excitement came from having the chance to play a character who not only ruled but defined her country. “I really was intrigued by seeing this side of Victoria which I’d never heard about, and I’d had no knowledge of. I was expecting the younger version to be similar to the older, which was sour-faced and po. But when I started reading about her, I was surprised by the joie de vivre that she had and the rebellious quality of her, and that she was strong and vivacious and loved to dance and party, loved to laugh and to eat. Obviously, I was really surprised, and hoped I could surprise other people.” • Continue Reading?

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• Emily Blunt’s crowning achievement

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The British actress’ royal turn as ‘The Young Victoria’ leaves her marveling at the power of love.

The diamond ring on Emily Blunt’s finger is so blinding, it appears she might have ransacked the Crown Jewels during her recent stint playing the teenage queen of England in her new movie “The Young Victoria.”

Wearing a skin-tight, black Roland Mouret mini-dress, long hair loose around her shoulders, Blunt, 26, described by her colleagues as “warm, friendly, funny and down-to-earth” enters the lounge of the Four Seasons Hotel looking cool and glamorous, more ’60s Mod than 19th century empress. It turns out her ring doesn’t come from the royal stash in the Tower of London, but courtesy of boyfriend John Krasinski (NBC’s “The Office”), who just asked her to marry him.

“What really resonated with me was how wonderful that commitment that they had to each other was, and how important that is,” the newly engaged Blunt says of Victoria and Albert, the famous royal couple who married in 1840 and loved each other ferociously. When Albert died suddenly at age 42, broken-hearted Victoria put on black to mourn him, never took it off and went on to become England’s longest-serving monarch at 63 years and seven months. “People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.” • Continue Reading?

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• Queen EB: Emily Blunt on “The Young Victoria”

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Emily Blunt quickly made a name for herself with a breakthrough supporting role inThe Devil Wears Prada (2006). Since then, she’s appeared in numerous films, including The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), andSunshine Cleaning (2008), garnering plenty of fans and critical attention. Now she takes on her largest role yet as the titular queen in The Young Victoria.
San Francisco Bay Guardian: How do you approach a role when you’re playing a historical figure?

Emily Blunt: Well, you want to do it justice, and factually of course, you want to remain as close to what you’ve researched. In a way there’s a challenge because it’s your take on her as well. And it’s not that I wanted to make her contemporary, but I wanted to have a fresher look on that period, so that I presented her as the girl rather than as the queen. Because I think that’s more relatable, and I think that people can understand being young and being in love and feeling overwhelmed, rather than a rather stiff portrayal of a monarch. Not many people can relate to that. What I loved about the script is that it allowed us so much room to explore the private side of her. The public side was such a performance, in a way. And that’s what I loved — I found it revealing and intimate, and I liked that.

SFBG: How familiar were you with Queen Victoria’s life before you took on the role?

EB: Like, really unfamiliar. I mean, I knew about her as being old and grizzled and sour-faced and repressed, and so I think it was exciting and enlightening for me to read the script. Because I knew nothing about when she was young and the vibrancy that she had and the strength of character. She was a rebel, really, for that time, very forward-thinking, a modern thinker. And passionate — loved intensely, hated intensely. So I think she sort of appeared to be a shell of a woman after Albert died, so I’m excited for people to see her. • Continue Reading?

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• Iesb Interview: Emily Blunt is The Young Victoria

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The Young Victoria is a drama that chronicles Queen Victoria’s ascension to the throne, focusing on the early turbulent years of her reign, and her legendary romance and marriage to Prince Albert.

In 1837, at the age of 17, Victoria (Emily Blunt) was the object of a royal power struggle. With her uncle, King William (Jim Broadbent) dying and Victoria in line for the throne, everyone is vying to win her favor. Coached to win her hand, Victoria’s handsome cousin, Albert (Rupert Friend), is invited to visit by her mother, The Duchess of Kent (Miranda Richardson), and the two quickly become friends.

Once King William dies and Victoria is crowned Queen of England, she embraces Lord Melbourne (Paul Bettany), the charming Prime Minister, as her sole advisor. Prince Albert returns to London to witness the coronation and, after their friendship deepens even further, Victoria invites him to marry her, and continued to rule with him until the end of his life.

At the film’s press day, actress Emily Blunt, who plays the title role, talked about what drew her to such an iconic British figure, as well as gave hints to what audiences can expect from her upcoming big-budget releases The Wolfman and Gulliver’s Travels.

Q: How did you first hear about The Young Victoria?

Emily: My agent sent me the script and I really fell in love with her and the script. I thought it was really rare, in that it wasn’t too arch and stiff. It seemed to be a very intimate portrait of a girl, rather than a queen. She was a girl who was under duress and huge pressure, and she was in love, so there was so much to play with and I knew it was such a rare find. I had to be quite pushy about getting them to cast me.

Q: Playing such an iconic character and being British yourself, does that add more pressure to your work?

Emily: Yes, because you want to do her justice, since she’s very much emblematic of our country, and everything that her and Albert did together, what they achieved and how much they did for education, social reform, architecture, the arts, the sciences and all of it. They did so much for the country. So, it’s important to try to show her in the best light you can, but also to create a real person and try not to approach her as the Queen.

I don’t know what it’s like to be the Queen of England. Hardly anyone does. But, at the end of the day, there’s a human side to everyone. She was a young girl who was in love for the first time, in a job where she felt completely intimidated and over her head, and a lot of people can relate to that. A lot of people remember what it’s like to be in love for the first time, and some people have come from a dysfunctional family. I feel like this film is actually about a dysfunctional family, at the end of the day. • Continue Reading?

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• Emily Blunt’s Feisty Romance!

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Emily’s advice to teens? “A young person can really accomplish a lot so go for it!”

Doncha just luv a good girltalk session? Actress Emily Blunt, who was so wonderful as Meryl Streep’s neurotic assistant in The Devil Wears Prada, is here with TeenHollywood to chat about playing a teen Queen Victoria in the romantic rebellion drama The Young Victoria. This cool period piece movie is totally relatable to teens today since, hey, nothing changes. If you are a teen, there are always adults trying to control you and shape you to their will! Right?

In school, you might have studied the Victorian Age (1837-1901) and seen pictures of England’s Queen Victoria as a chubby dowager always dressed in black mourning and with a weird doily thingie on her head.

Well, seems that, at the beginning of her reign, she was thin, feisty, hot to dance and meet a great guy and completely against being controlled by her family and other royals who were sure she couldn’t handle being queen and wanted to run her empire for her!

When Victoria met cute Prince Albert from Germany (played in the film by hot Rupert Friend), who was also rebelling against being told how to run his life, they clicked right away, were married for 20 years, had nine kids and by all accounts, were madly in love.

We’re talking with Emily about creating the little-known part of teen Victoria’s life, wearing heavy costumes (“the coronation cloak was like dragging a bear behind you!”) and crown jewelry, doing a scene in Victoria’s actual bed and how she and Rupert re-created the love affair of the age.

Picture fashionable Emily in small, diamond stud earrings, a black tunic dress with silver threads and sparkly stones over tights and very tall, black boots.

TeenHollywood: Emily, did you have to summon up your inner frustrated teen for this part? I think modern teens are going to strongly relate to the controlling adult thing in the movie.

Emily: I think so too. I think that (Victoria) had a more oppressive childhood than most people. It was so managed and handled and controlled. So I think that by the time she was able to kick off and be independent, she was ready to give everyone the finger who’d ever tried to bring her down. And I understand that!

There was no way she was going to relinquish any of that power when she’d been denied it for all of those years. But that’s to her credit. She had that steely resilience to hold on for that long; to know that she would be great and she would never be denied this independence. I think people will relate. I definitely remember being a teenager and how stubborn and reckless (I was) and the stupid decisions I made and how I thought I knew it all. • Continue Reading?

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• Emily Blunt’s take on Victoria is anything but fusty

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It might seem like a sizable leap from her scene-stealing role as a venomous fashion assistant in The Devil Wears Prada to portraying a stately sovereign in The Young Victoria. But as British actress Emily Blunt explains, this is no dry historical epic. Directed by French-Canadian Jean-Marc Vallée (and co-produced by the Duchess of York), the film is a humanizing love story about a ruler in the making. As 26-year-old Blunt explained during an interview in Toronto this fall – where her film closed the Toronto International Film Festival – this Victoria is feisty, robust and loves to go out dancing. [Watch the interview video here]

How did you land this role?

My agent got his hands on the script really early because he’s pushy and excellent, and called me and said I really want this for you, so I got in quite early, which was lucky. I knew it would be something a lot of people would be after. I went in, I met [producers] Graham King and Dennis [O'Sullivan] and was similarly pushy about wanting to do it, and that seemed to work. Maybe there was something incredibly royal about me demanding the role.

Why did you want it so badly?

Because I thought it was a rare period drama, essentially, because it was a more intimate take on her and Albert. I thought it captured the love and the passion in her life that nobody knows about – everyone has this preconception of her as being old and grizzled. And fat. And so I was like, I’d like to play the Victoria that’s in better shape. She loved to dance and she’d go horse-riding, she was robust and vivacious, and that’s a side people should know about.

Did it take a lot of study to nail down Victoria?

I did have to read a great deal about her. Her diaries were actually the most revealing to me. I got a sense of her voice. She’d talk ferociously about people if she hated them – she loved passionately and she hated passionately. She was emotional and emphatic. …I got a sense of the kind of feistiness and the rebellious nature of her.

Why do you think Jean-Marc Vallée, a French-Canadian, was chosen to direct this?

I think he was chosen mainly for his work in C.R.A.Z.Y., which was extraordinary. Visually and aesthetically, he’s quite dynamic and modern, and that’s what I think this film needed because the script was a modern approach to a historical love story, so you needed someone who was going to capture that and not hold anything in too much reverence. I think it would have been a different film if a British director had done it because there’s a sense to sort of covet what’s historically ours and protect it and shield it from being relatable or accessible. It’s supposed to be other-worldly, still. Jean-Marc just dove right in and said, “Be a rebel.” That’s what he said to me the first meeting and I thought, I love this guy.

He described you as “one of the boys.”

[Laughs.] There’s fewer female parts, so I inevitably end up working with men. This was definitely a very male set, but yes, I don’t feel like I’m someone who acts on my femininity much. I’d rather just have a good time with the guys, honestly.

What else is coming up for you?

So, The Wolfman‘s coming out, with Anthony [Hopkins] and Benicio [Del Toro], who are both just extraordinary and wacky. Tony just wants everyone to have a good time and he hates it if you get too serious. And Benicio just has this raw, animalistic instinct approach to everything. I think the film’s great. I think it’s going to be a very noble nod to those old classic horror films, without too much CGI.

The Young Victoria opens Friday at select theatres.

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