Emily Blunt appears fashionably cool on both the cover and inside the pages of “WSJ. Magazine” for this year’s May/June issue. However, the “Devil Wears Prada 2” star admits she’s decidedly uncool when it comes to social media, choosing to avoid it entirely.
Emily Blunt is Doing Just Fine Without Instagram, X, or TikTok
“I’m a big old dusty fart when it comes to the mystique of things. I believe in the removal from seeing the process and just enjoying the final thing without knowing too much about how it all materialized,” she explains. While the British-American actress avoids Instagram, her perspective is the complete opposite when it comes to the possibility of aliens living among us.
“It would be an arrogant thing to think we’re alone,” she tells “WSJ” reporter Lane Florsheim. Blunt’s next project release after the “Devil Wears Prada” sequel is “Disclosure Day,” which comes out this June and explores how people would react if they discovered extraterrestrials exist. Blunt is no stranger to films about the mysterious and otherworldly; the fourth installment of the popular “Quiet Place” franchise, “A Quiet Place Part III,” is scheduled to land in theaters in 2027.
Emily Blunt Reveals Her Personal “Ones” with ‘WSJ. Magazine’
In addition to her cover story interview, Blunt also participated in the magazine’s The One conversation series. She shared several personal favorites, including one sweet treat she enjoys every day—dark chocolate—and the one collaborator who could coax her out of pop music retirement: “Lin-Manuel Miranda,” Blunt answers without hesitation. She adds, “Can he just prize me out of this pop reclusivity? I think if anyone can, it’s Lin.”
When asked about the relationship that has taught her the most about herself, Blunt responds, “Sorry, John Krasinski, but it is our children.”
She continues, “You do go through this complete awakening when you have kids, and I know any parent will attest, and the challenge of it, the beauty of it, that’s sort of reclamation of maybe who you really are. And I don’t think anybody sees you as purely as your children do, or bringing you back to Earth like they do. So, I find that the most kaleidoscopic experience of my life.” Blunt and her husband, John Krasinski, share two daughters, Violet and Hazel.
The One Trip To or From Work Emily Blunt Will Never Forget
The couple famously starred together in “A Quiet Place” and “A Quiet Place Part II,” both of which Krasinski directed, wrote, and produced. To Blunt’s surprise and amusement, “WSJ.” asked her to recall her most unforgettable drive to and from work with her partner.
“I think he will never forget the first day when I’d left it rather till the last minute to go, ‘Do you know how to shoot a film?’ Because I don’t know how to shoot a film, so I’m just wondering if you know what you’re doing,” she begins. “And then, actually, the drive home was clearly like I’d had an awakening, seeing that this person who I thought I knew everything about had this sort of secret power. And it was really amazing seeing this whole other superpower that he had that I don’t think he even knew what he was capable of doing.”
Krasinski, whom she also describes to “WSJ.” as a “freak genius,” says people warned them their marriage wouldn’t last by the end of making “A Quiet Place.” Nearly two decades later, the talented duo is still going strong, with their 16th wedding anniversary taking place this summer.
