{"id":263675,"date":"2018-12-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/emily-blunts-best-roles-prove-shes-practically-perfect-in-every-way\/"},"modified":"2018-12-17T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:00:00","slug":"emily-blunts-best-roles-prove-shes-practically-perfect-in-every-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/emily-blunts-best-roles-prove-shes-practically-perfect-in-every-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Blunt’s Best Roles Prove She’s Practically Perfect in Every Way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Walt Disney Studios; 20th Century Fox; Paramount Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Emily Blunt<\/a><\/strong> is practically perfect in every way\u2014and she’s got the nominations to prove it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old actress has already scored several nods this award show season for her performance in Mary Poppins<\/em> Returns\u2014<\/em>the sequel to Disney’s 1964 original. So far, she’s received Critics’ Choice<\/a>, Golden Globes<\/a> and SAG Awards<\/a> nods for her role as the magical nanny.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, this isn’t her\u00a0first\u00a0highly acclaimed role.\u00a0Over the years, she’s starred in\u00a0a number of popular films, including A Quiet Place<\/em>, The Girl on the Train<\/em> and\u00a0The Devil Wears Prada<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“The air changes in the room when she starts doing what she does,” her husband John Krasinski<\/a><\/strong> told Vanity<\/em> Fair<\/em><\/a>. “It’s so honest and so pure and so powerful. It’s like a superpower that she can just unlock and do so specifically with not many attempts.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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To look back at some of Blunt’s most iconic roles, check out the gallery. Spit spot!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Jay Maidment\/Disney Enterprises, Inc.<\/p>\n

Mary Poppins Returns<\/em><\/h3>\n

In this new take on the Disney classic, Blunt plays the famous magical nanny, who returns to the Banks family to help Michael (Ben Whishaw<\/strong>) raise his children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Barry Wetcher\/20th Century Fox<\/p>\n

The Devil Wears Prada<\/em><\/h3>\n

In The Devil Wears Prada<\/em>, Blunt plays Emily, the first assistant of Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep<\/strong>), who gives guidance to new hire Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway<\/strong>) on how to fit in at Runway<\/em>, a high fashion magazine.\u00a0Things go awry however when\u00a0Andy tries to change her attitude and look, which affects her personal life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Paramount Pictures<\/p>\n

A Quiet Place<\/em><\/h3>\n

In A Quiet Place<\/em>,\u00a0Blunt takes on the role of Evelyn Abbott, who along with her family is forced to live in\u00a0silence\u00a0because\u00a0hypersensitive creatures are attacking anyone who makes noise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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YouTube<\/p>\n

The Girl on the Train<\/em><\/h3>\n

Blunt is Rachel Watson, the girl on the train, who\u00a0becomes entangled in a missing person’s case that will\u00a0forever change the course of her life in the 2016 film based on the novel by the same name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Giles Keyte\/Universal Studios<\/p>\n

The Huntsman: Winter\u2019s War<\/em><\/h3>\n

The Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth<\/strong>) and Sara (Jessica Chastain<\/strong>) try to conceal their love in The Huntsman: Winter’s Tale<\/em>, but Queen Freya (Blunt) discovers their secret setting off a chain of events that changes their lives forever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Disney<\/p>\n

Into the Woods<\/em><\/h3>\n

The British actress portrays the Baker’s Wife in the 2014 musical comedy. All she wants is a child with her husband (played by\u00a0James Corden<\/strong>), but first they must break the\u00a0witch’s curse\u00a0and sing a few songs along the way!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sony Pictures Classics<\/p>\n

The Jane Austen Book Club<\/em><\/h3>\n

The English actress\u00a0brings Prudie to life in this 2007 drama in which a group of women begin a Jane Austen<\/strong> book club only to find their own lives are mirroring the the author’s famous novels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Black Label Media<\/p>\n

Sicario<\/em><\/h3>\n

Blunt plays an FBI agent who’s been hired by the government to help take down a drug cartel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BBC<\/p>\n

Gideon’s Daughter<\/em><\/h3>\n

This BBC drama\u00a0is set\u00a0in the midst of the\u00a0New Labour period and the mourning of\u00a0Princess Diana<\/strong>‘s tragic death. PR head Gideon (Bill Nighy<\/strong>) reevaluates his high-profile life after his daughter Natasha (Blunt) threatens to leave him for all the pain he has caused. Blunt won a Golden Globe for her performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Apparition<\/p>\n

The Young Victoria<\/em><\/h3>\n

Blunt is Queen Victoria during the first years of her rule in the 2009 film, which also explores the Queen’s romance with Prince Albert (Rupert Friend<\/strong>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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20th Century Fox<\/p>\n

Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/em><\/h3>\n

In Gulliver’s Travels,\u00a0<\/em>Lemauel Gulliver (Jack Black<\/strong>) is sent on assignment to\u00a0the Bermuda Triangle but his boat is a hit by storm and he ends on the island of Lilliput. He is then captured and brought to the island’s royal family which includes Princess Mary, played by Blunt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Warner Bros.<\/p>\n

Edge of Tomorrow<\/em><\/h3>\n

Blunt stars alongside\u00a0Tom Cruise<\/strong> in this 2014 sci-fi action film. The movie follows Major William Cage (Cruise), who is killed while fighting against aliens, but is in a time loop where he then relives the battle over and over. He eventually teams up with Rita Vrataski (Blunt) to improve his chances of survival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CBS Films<\/p>\n

Salmon Fishing in Yemen<\/em><\/h3>\n

The 35-year-old actress takes on the role of Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, a consultant who works with a fisheries expert to bring fly-fishing to the desert, in this 2011 film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Glen Wilson\/Universal Studios<\/p>\n

The Five-Year Engagement<\/em><\/h3>\n

The mother of two stars opposite Jason Segal<\/strong> in this 2012 comedy. In The Five-Year Engagement<\/em>, Violet (Blunt) is engaged to Tom (Segal) but unexpected events keep them from walking down the aisle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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IFC Films<\/p>\n

Your Sister\u2019s Sister<\/em><\/h3>\n

After Iris (Blunt) invites her friend Jack (Mark Duplass<\/strong>) to spend the weekend at her family’s island getaway, a drunken encounter between Jack and Iris’ sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt<\/strong>) changes everything between the two friends…and things get complicated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sony Pictures<\/p>\n

Looper<\/em><\/h3>\n

The Golden Globe winner\u00a0plays Sara in the sci-fi thriller Looper<\/em>.\u00a0In the film she encounters Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt<\/strong>), a looper who sends people from the future to be killed in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mary Poppins Returns<\/em> flies into theaters Dec. 19.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Walt Disney Studios; 20th Century Fox; Paramount Pictures Emily Blunt is practically perfect in every way\u2014and she’s got the nominations to prove it.\u00a0 The 35-year-old actress has already scored several nods this award show season for her performance in Mary Poppins Returns\u2014the sequel to Disney’s 1964 original. So far, she’s received Critics’ Choice, Golden Globes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 06:38:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}