Emily Blunt’s big-screen fortunes have soared in the almost three years since her scene-stealing work in “The Devil Wears Prada.”
Her current turns – with Amy Adams in the sleeper hit “Sunshine Cleaning” and with John Malkovich in “The Great Buck Howard” – are just the start of a very Blunt year.
“The Young Victoria” premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February with 26-year-old Blunt as the legendary English monarch.“It’s an intimate, youthful side to a Victoria that people hadn’t been privy to before. Everyone knows about the sour-faced Victoria and the death of Albert,” she said in a telephone interview from her Los Angeles home.
“Nobody knows about the passion, the exuberance. It’s about a girl who’s young and in love, has a bad relationship with her mother and she’s in a job where she’s way over her head. That was my starting point.”
Come November, the British actress stars opposite Benicio Del Toro in “The Wolf Man.”
“I’m playing the person who’s trying to save Benicio from his lupine doom. I’m his love interest. It’s a rather taboo relationship, because I was engaged to his dead brother who got his guts ripped out by some strange beast – and that’s all I can say,” Blunt said.
Not exactly a horror fan (“I loathe slasher films and anything where blood is splattered across the camera”), Blunt was “drawn” to “The Wolf Man” by co-star Del Toro and “because there was something of Greek mythology about it. But it’s a horror movie at the core, let’s be honest.”
This summer she goes tiny to play a Lilliputian princess opposite Jack Black in a new “Gulliver’s Travels.”
“It’s the silliest thing in the world, but it will be really fun,” she predicted.
As for stardom and whether she follows Anne Hathaway and Amy Adams, “I tend not to pay attention to that side of things because it really isn’t anything to do with me,” she said.
“It’s so political, how people crunch numbers over actresses and people’s performances. I find it very strange and unsettling, so I’d rather not think about it. I’m just going to keep going the way that I’m going. And I don’t care if I’m regarded as a leading lady, a supporting actress or a character actress,” she said. “I don’t care as long as I’m doing work that I enjoy.”
DEVILISHLY TALENTED: Emily Blunt shines in 2009.
Source: Boston Herald
