NEW YORK – Emily Blunt's arsenal of gifts is enviable. She makes a mean British beef roast and specializes in Italian cuisine. She's able to nimbly traverse Manhattan in "serious" red suede Christian Louboutin booties that can best be described as perilous.
But most of all, as her friends will tell you, she's a deft mimic and an ace at accents. Here's her uncannily precise imitation of a particularly memorable interview recently conducted at a film festival. Blunt's proper, crisp British accent vanishes as she assumes the guttural voice of the reporter in question. " 'What's the most amazing thing about John?' " she demands, before switching back to herself. "Oh, I don't really talk about that. 'Well, can you just be specific? Please be specific.' No, I won't."
The John in question is her husband, actor John Krasinski, whom she wed July 10, 2010, in a private ceremony. Blunt understands the interest in her personal life, but adroitly steers questions about her better half toward other topics. She won't tell you how they met because "that is so our story. People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff," she says. The two tend to not discuss each other in interviews.
"It wasn't a strategic decision. It's just how we are. I think it's the best way to be," says Blunt, 29. "I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure."
Instead, Blunt explores romantic entanglements of various natures in three films opening back-to-back this spring and summer. In Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, opening today, she's an unflappable, driven and focused London executive charged with opening a fishery in the desert.
On April 27, she's Jason Segel's betrothed, Violet, in the comedy The Five-Year Engagement, a whimsical, sweet look at the circuitous road one couple takes to the altar. In the June 15 IFC release Your Sister's Sister, she finds herself in a very unique sort of love triangle involving a grieving best friend (Mark Duplass) and a sibling (Rosemarie DeWitt) desperate to have a baby.
Oh, and that's her you see in the lush ads for Yves Saint Laurent's Opium, as the new face of the fragrance. "People are going to be like, 'Her again?' The films are different enough. But it's like an overload," Blunt quips.
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