Does Emily Blunt Know Her Lines From Her Most Famous Movies?

Variety

Emily Blunt tries to guess lines from some of her most well-known movies, such as 'The Devil Wears Prada,' 'A Quiet Place,' 'Oppenheimer,' and more.

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00:00 When we catch him, I want you to set me on fire.

00:03 Come on, what is that from?

00:06 When we catch who?

00:08 Is it like a TV thing?

00:11 Hi, I'm Emily Blunt and I'm going to guess some lines from my films.

00:14 Okay.

00:25 You went upstairs.

00:27 You went upstairs.

00:28 Oh my god, why didn't you just crawl into bed with her and ask for a bedtime story?

00:32 Devil Wears Prada.

00:33 You went upstairs.

00:37 You went upstairs.

00:38 Oh my god, why didn't you just climb into bed with her and ask for a bedtime story?

00:41 Okay.

00:42 I didn't know enough in any way about the fashion industry going into that movie.

00:47 I didn't quite realise how intense it was and friends of mine who've worked in the fashion

00:54 industry say that that film does manage to capture that.

00:59 But I think it was a bit of a voyage of discovery for me in every way,

01:03 like not just about the industry itself but about style and the art of it and how important it is.

01:08 I think I'd just been dressing like a teenage boy until that happened and I learnt a lot.

01:22 I know this because it's recent.

01:24 It's Oppenheimer.

01:25 For Oppenheimer, I prepared by reading the book that the movie was inspired by,

01:38 American Prometheus, which is like that.

01:41 But there were so many wonderful little snippets of her and indicators of what a startling force

01:49 she was as a person and how unusual in a way she was for the time, what a non-conformist she was.

01:55 She was pretty fierce and there were wonderful clues in that book

01:59 that unlocked the mystery of her for me.

02:03 I mean, I always felt that you are left with this feeling of ambiguity

02:07 as to, and it's probably due to Killian's sort of very mercurial, beautiful performance

02:14 that keeps you leaning in wondering what he feels about what he's created.

02:18 You really see the trauma in his character of what he's unleashed on the world

02:22 and how conflicted he probably is about it.

02:25 But what was interesting is when I read the script, I sort of

02:27 wasn't sure if he was truly atoning for his sins or if he was

02:35 sort of playing the martyr to try to absolve himself of it.

02:40 We're on the brink of adventure, children.

02:45 Don't spoil it.

02:46 Too many questions.

02:47 Mary Poppins.

02:50 We're on the brink of an adventure, children.

02:53 Don't spoil it with too many questions.

02:56 There's something about the buoyancy of the atmosphere that Rob Marshall creates.

03:00 I miss making musicals with Rob.

03:02 I mean, he gives you wings of confidence and freedom.

03:06 I think it's still really unnerving singing in front of people.

03:10 I had terror taking on the role of Mary Poppins.

03:12 I think that the fact that it had been played by somebody so iconic

03:16 and it was such an iconic role,

03:18 the pressure I probably put on myself to kind of carve out new space for myself

03:24 and make a different version of her, I think maybe that's the most scary part.

03:28 It's, um, there's only one movie I've had a crossbow in.

03:38 It's Five Year Engagement.

03:39 Wow, pulling that one out.

03:42 Hey, what is your crossbow doing on the kitchen table?

03:45 I was glued to Jason Segel for the entirety of that movie.

03:50 You know, it was a five-year engagement, so we were in it with each other.

03:54 I'm a little...

03:56 Ah, this scares me.

04:00 Okay, I'm a little rusty in the Puka Matuna dialect,

04:03 so I want you to translate what I say word for word.

04:06 This is Jungle Cruise.

04:08 I'm a little rusty in the Puka Matuna dialect,

04:11 so I want you to translate what I say word for word.

04:15 Okay.

04:15 That scene was so impossible to get through.

04:18 I mean, I've never claimed to speak Puka Matuna.

04:20 You'd have to take that up with Dwayne Johnson, who claims to speak Puka Matuna.

04:24 Hearing Dwayne Johnson speak Puka Matuna,

04:27 which he clearly was just making up on the spot,

04:30 I just remember Jack Whitehall and I just weeping with laughter.

04:35 I remember Jama, our director, going like,

04:38 "Guys, please, I literally don't even have a scene to cut."

04:41 It was impossible.

04:42 It was... that was one of the hardest days on set.

04:44 Who are we if we can't protect them?

04:48 We have to protect them.

04:49 Quiet, please.

04:50 Quiet, please, part one.

04:52 Yeah.

04:53 Because I said that to John when he was still alive.

04:56 I said, "Who are we if we can't protect them?"

04:58 And he said, "We have to protect them."

05:00 And I said, "We have to protect them."

05:01 And he said, "We have to protect them."

05:02 And I said that to John when he was still alive.

05:05 But...

05:05 Who are we if we can't protect them?

05:12 I mean, I love the freedom of the unspoken stuff between people.

05:17 I love it even in a regular movie.

05:18 It's sort of the more interesting parts of scenes,

05:21 is the space between people.

05:22 So I loved the challenge of it.

05:25 And you can communicate so much, you realize,

05:28 you know, without having to overword things.

05:31 Okay.

05:32 "All this power wasted on parties when there are far greater uses."

05:37 What is that from?

05:41 All this power wasted on parties.

05:43 Parties?

05:45 I'm not talking about political parties, are we?

05:48 What are we talking about?

05:49 What is that from?

05:51 What have I done?

05:54 Oh my God.

05:56 Oh, for God's sake.

06:00 My Little Pony the movie.

06:02 How did I not pull that out?

06:04 All this power wasted on parties.

06:07 My favorite pony is one I play.

06:10 Tempest. Is her name Tempest?

06:11 "Anything is possible because I'm not the girl I used to be."

06:29 Is it Young Victoria?

06:30 Is it some random one again?

06:33 "Anything is possible because I'm not the girl I used to be."

06:37 I don't know.

06:42 What is it?

06:43 "Anything is possible because I am not the girl I used to be."

06:48 Of course you read the book, you know,

06:51 and then you realize you're going to have to create your own version of what

06:55 people have loved about the character.

06:57 And also just that you've got an unreliable hero is kind of fun to play that

07:03 because you're kind of playing two things with that part.

07:05 You're playing the truth of what she's experiencing,

07:08 but also you need to remember what the audience are going through

07:11 and kind of thread that needle between truthful

07:14 and also trying to pull the wool over a bit.

07:16 It was fun.

07:17 "Come find me when you wake up,"

07:20 I say to Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow.

07:24 Or All You Need is Kill or Lived I Repeat.

07:27 It could be any of those titles.

07:29 I don't really know why it has so many titles.

07:31 "Rush, come find me when you wake up."

07:33 I mean, I don't think I'd really properly ever worked out before that movie.

07:41 I think I'd done what most people did in the gym,

07:45 which is sort of wander around checking their phone.

07:47 And I was unprepared for how hard that was going to be.

07:53 Like two workouts a day for three months.

07:56 And those exosuits were so heavy and so extreme.

08:00 But I kind of loved transforming like that for a part.

08:05 It was pretty cool.

08:07 I love working with Tom.

08:08 He's really joyful to work with because he's so excited about the process.

08:12 He's so passionate.

08:14 He was unbelievably generous to me.

08:17 And I felt challenged me and sort of tightened the screws on me

08:21 when it came to what I thought I could do physically.

08:24 And you know, he's got no problem jumping off buildings.

08:27 So you kind of have to join the party a bit.

08:30 "When we catch him, I want you to set me on fire."

08:38 "When we catch him, I want you to set me on fire."

08:44 Come on, what is that from?

08:49 "When we catch who?"

08:50 Is it like a TV thing?

08:53 Is it Boudicca?

08:55 Yes.

08:56 That was my first TV job.

09:00 Boudicca, Warrior Queen.

09:02 "When we catch him, I want you to set me on fire."

09:08 I remember it was in Romania.

09:10 It was the middle of winter.

09:13 I remember loving it.

09:15 Like, we were such a crew together staying in Bucharest, Romania.

09:21 And I remember the cold.

09:24 I remember the horse riding was really scary.

09:26 Sort of bareback horse riding in it.

09:28 Everyone covered in blue woad.

09:30 And I remember one really seedy nightclub that we went to.

09:36 I mean, I'm still in disbelief now that I get to do this job.

09:41 It is such a gift.

09:42 I just love it so much.

09:45 And in the beginning, I don't remember having sort of outlandish ambitions for myself.

09:52 I remember being thrilled at whatever gig I got.

09:56 So I still maybe disassociate a bit, like where I am now compared to where I started out.

10:02 But I'm grateful, I guess, for the journey.

10:06 [Music]

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