Emily Blunt reveals which movie she did her most 'stressful' stunt in, and her answer may surprise some fans.
The Oscar-nominated actress may be surrounded by death-defying stunts in her latest film, The autumn manbut she recently told me that People magazine that her scariest stunt was actually in 2018 Mary Poppins returns.
“That entrance was very stressful for me,” she remembers of the scene.
Blunt, who took on the memorable role of Julie Andrews for Disney's musical sequel, explained that her character's entrance had to “start in the clouds and come all the way to the ground holding an umbrella. And I'm supposed to effortlessly walk into my close-up like it's nothing.”
The Oppenheimer star added: “I did three takes – and then I felt my tolerance go, 'Pfft!' And that was it. I was done.”
However, Blunt said she noticed that director Rob Marshall wanted to go for a fourth take, but she immediately stopped it.
“I did three takes and I could see Rob getting ready to do another one,” the actress recalled. “I was like, 'No, no, no, no, I'm done.' It was over.”
While Blunt is also a fight scene The autumn manwhere she stars opposite Ryan Gosling, some fans might have guessed that her scariest stunts would have been a sci-fi action movie Edge of tomorrow with Tom Cruise, but that wasn't the case.
'I put some wires in it Edge of tomorrow, which was probably more dangerous, because I spilled some,” she said. Her performance in the 2014 film also earned her a Critics Choice Award for Best Actress in an Action Film.