Those returning to theaters amid the box office reopening will be seeing a lot more of Blunt.
Emily Blunthas a cough.
She wouldn’t think twice about this, but times have, obviously, changed.
Emily Blunt in ‘A Quiet Place Part II.'.Jonny Cournoyer/Paramount Pictures
Then, unprompted, she clears the air.
“I don’t have COVID,” she insists.
“It’s amazing.
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in ‘Jungle Cruise’.Disney
When you have a cough now, people look at you like you have leprosy.
It’s like, ‘No, there are other viruses going around.'”
“Everyone has been very cautious to leave their bubbles,” the Golden Globe winner explains.
“That’s the confidence people need to win back.
It’s so unnatural for the human species to not want a sense of togetherness.”
The actress sees the vaccines as a light at the end of this seemingly endless tunnel.
There’s no appropriate way of doing things anymore.
It’s a little fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, which suits me more.
I think that feels quite exciting.
And they’re wildly different films."
(It will begin streaming on Paramount+ 45 days later.)
“We’ve all just been encouraged to not do that,” she explains.
“It’s really Millie and Cillian’s story,” Blunt affirms.
A Quiet PlaceandA Quiet Place Part IIfeel like family members at this point to Blunt and Krasinski.
“Our little crew, we’ve experienced so much together,” she says.
Krasinski is currently developing a spin-off concept to further expand the franchise.
Blunt doesn’t know yet if she’ll be involved with the project.
Returning forPart IIwas more about wanting Krasinski to direct again.
“I was never going to do it if he didn’t direct it,” she says.
So when it comes to the spin-off, it’s a waiting game at this point.
“I’ll just have to wait to see what direction they take.”
“It was such an ode to these films that pulled on my heartstrings innately,” she says.
“It’s the allure of travel, as well.
Wouldn’t that be nice to go somewhere completely exotic and mad and wild?”
Blunt will be traveling soon herself now that many Hollywood productions are restarting.
It was just extraordinary."
The thought of returning to a set is still somewhat worrisome.
It sparks the feelings of “Am I going to know how to act?”
And, yes, also feeling comfortable enough to cough if they need to cough.
