Emily Blunt

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q193517: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Oppenheimer, which Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: My Summer of Love (2004); The Devil Wears Prada (2006); Gulliver's Travels (2010); The Adjustment Bureau (2011); Looper (2012); The Five-Year Engagement (2012); Edge of Tomorrow (2014); Sicario (2015); The Girl on the Train (2016); The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016); Mary Poppins Returns (2018); Oppenheimer (2023); A Quiet Place.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Groundhog Day (1993): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Edge of Tomorrow (2014), which they acted in: Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read). The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes.
    “Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Working Girl (1988): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Devil Wears Prada (2006), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read). Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them.
    “And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Top Gun: Maverick (2022): 1 line

  1. career (career) · through Edge of Tomorrow (2014), which they acted in: Edge of Tomorrow ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Edge cracked a new era of Cruise; Ethan Hunt and Maverick run on what he learned here.
    “That Maverick is really running on a lot of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (22) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Emily Blunt → Looper. Looper was when people started to say they liked her; Edge is where she is agreed to be a star.
    “Looper felt smart for using her so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:57:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Emily Blunt → The Devil Wears Prada. Prada plus My Summer of Love is how she was discovered and signed to a two-picture deal.
    “they're like, here's a discovery.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:58:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (5)

  1. what-if (what-if): Emily Blunt → Edge of Tomorrow. Blunt as a female Bond because of action credibility in Edge of Tomorrow and Sicario.
    “She's the biggest badass and you buy it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:18:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Emily Blunt → Iron Man 2. Fox kept Blunt in Gulliver's Travels instead of letting her be Black Widow in Iron Man 2 and the Avengers.
    “Then John Favreau was like, I want you to play Black Widow and Iron Man 2”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:58:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Emily Blunt → Get Him to the Greek. Blunt dropped out of Get Him to the Greek; Rose Byrne replaced her and entered the Apatow system, leaving Blunt in a middle zone until Edge.
    “They replaced her with Rose Byrne, who then gets properly fed into the Appatau system”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:59:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Emily Blunt → Captain America: The First Avenger. Marvel wanted a big rising British name for Peggy, first Emily Blunt and Keira Knightley, since the Steve actor seemed likely to be unknown.
    “This was another one where it was like, they really wanted Emily Blunt to do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:01:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (what-if): Scarlett Johansson → Emily Blunt. Black Widow was meant for Blunt, who passed because she was contracted to Gulliver's Travels.
    “But this was supposed to be Emily Blunt, and she passes because they had her contractually obligated to make golfers travels.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:55:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Emily Blunt: Blunt lost Black Widow because Fox made her do Gulliver's Travels, and Rose Byrne took the Get Him to the Greek role.
    “Fox goes, no, no, no, nah, nah.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:58:55 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Emily Blunt: Blunt's Smartlist story: she cried the first time in the suit and Cruise said 'come on, stop being a pussy'; it was a joke and went viral.
    “stop being a pussy, okay?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:03:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)