The Smashing Machine, intervista a Emily Blunt

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00:00Do you think that Dawn would love The Devil Wears Prada 2 or not?

00:05I think she is very excited about it. She told me she can't wait.

00:20Mark says that nothing feels like winning. He says that it's the best feeling ever. Do you agree

00:28with him? Well, I don't really. I think maybe it's in the losses in life that we learn a lot about

00:35ourselves. You know, I think you learn the most about what you can withstand. I think it feels

00:42good momentarily. I think winning is fleeting. I think losing is character building. And I think

00:48maybe that's a big message in the movie is don't let your need to win in life eclipse your need to

00:56look after yourself and be okay. I love that the movie could be also a great metaphor

01:02for today's America, because America, the American dream is like being invincible. But nowadays,

01:12we know that it's not anymore like that. So do you believe that as you were saying,

01:17feeling invincible could be a curse? Yeah, I think so. Because I guess the fall from grace

01:27would feel pretty dramatic, you know. And I think if you feel you're invincible, there will always be

01:35a tendency of Icarus flying too close to the sun. And I do believe that the film, you know, really

01:45explores fragility in human beings as opposed to invincibility. The invincibility is more like a

01:52front or what you broadcast to the world. But I don't think it's who we ultimately are. I feel that

02:00about Dawn that she might broadcast this formidable energy, but she's such a fragile, deeply wounded

02:08person who was so in need of love. So I think it's, I think that's what I love about it is that it sort

02:16of explores masculinity in a way to that's, that's not preachy, it just explores it and exposes it

02:24for what it really is, which is less a front, it's more the wholeness of someone.

02:29And one thing that athletes and actors have in common is trying to handle the pressure. How do

02:37you do that? It's not easy, I think. Yeah. Oh, my God. Sometimes, sometimes I don't feel like I

02:44handle it well. I'm not sure that I always breeze above it. I think I can also get snowed under by it

02:50and feel, yeah, and feel stressed by it. I tried to, I don't know, I tried to talk myself through

03:01situations where I'm starting to feel like short of breath and that it's a lot of pressure. I think

03:09I really tried to approach pressure as, it's not an unhealthy thing to deal with. I think it's okay.

03:18And then anything that's negative, I do try to let that be like white noise, you know,

03:24in the background that I know it's there and I know it exists, but it's how much I dip my

03:32head in and out of it, you know. I think that Dawn is fragile, as you were saying,

03:38and relies too much on Mark also because she doesn't have a dream or she doesn't have it anymore.

03:45So how important is in Europe, you know, to have a dream, even if maybe it won't ever realize it?

03:51Well, I think there was such an unhealthy codependency between Mark and Dawn and that

03:57he was controlling, she was codependent. So it was such a recipe for disaster in that way.

04:02I think it is vital to have your own dreams with purpose, because I think if your sense of self

04:13is wrapped up in how your partner might perceive you or love you, if your entire sense of self is

04:20about them, I think that that is, that will end up only isolating you as she found out, you know.

04:28But he, and Mark will attest to this, it wasn't just her decision, he quite liked it that way,

04:35you know, that worked for him, that she was always available to him whenever he deemed it fit, you know.

04:41And very quick, just a curiosity, do you think that Dawn would love The Devil Wears Prada 2 or not?

04:48I think she is very excited about it, yes. She told me, she can't wait.

04:54Me too. Thank you so much. Thank you. Great job. Bye.

04:59Thanks, Valentina.