Emily Blunt: 'It's about human beings and how they're affected by a crisis'

Emily Blunt: 'It's about human beings and how they're affected by a crisis'

By Aaron Hicklin

Emily Blunt: ‘It’s about how far you’d go to protect your children. It turns out, you’d go a really long way.’ Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

Now postponed because of coronavirus, A Quiet Place 2 explores a world untethered by fear. Its star discusses parenthood, in film and real life, and her terror of doing SNL.

Emily Blunt and her husband, John Krasinski, devised a rigorous self-care regime when the pair were making A Quiet Place, 2017’s harrowing self-isolation horror hit.

“I always say that Macallan 12 sponsored A Quiet Place,” says Blunt. “John and I would just go home and drink a lot of whisky every night. And that sort of continued on A Quiet Place 2.”

You, too, might need a tumbler of scotch while watching the film.

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/13/emily-blunt-its-about-human-beings-and-how-theyre-affected-by-a-crisis