Emily Blunt Explains Why Her Kids ‘Don’t Love Watching Me on Screen’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Emily Blunt is opening up about what her kids think about her roles in movies like JUNGLE CRUISE.
Blunt shares daughters Hazel, 9, and Violet, 7, with husband John Krasinski (A QUIET PLACE).
“They don’t love watching me on screen,” the actress told PEOPLE of her daughters. “Which I understand because I’m their mommy and it’s very strange to see me play someone else.”
“They’ve only seen JUNGLE CRUISE once,” she revealed. “They didn’t like the underwater stuff where I’m trapped and I’m in peril.”
Part of Movieguide®’s review for JUNGLE CRUISE reads:
JUNGLE CRUISE is a big action adventure movie based on Disneyland’s popular ride and set in 1916. Lily, a young English scientist, hires Frank, a debt-ridden boat captain, to take her down the Amazon River to find a fabled tree with leaves that cure any disease. Along for the ride is Lily’s brother. However, an evil German prince is hot on their trail in his very own German submarine. Innumerable other dangers await them down river, including a group of cursed Spanish conquistadores awakened from suspended animation.
JUNGLE CRUISE features many exciting, beautifully filmed escapades. Dwayne Johnson, as Frank, and Emily Blunt, as Lily, have strong chemistry together. JUNGLE CRUISE is laced with lots of humor. Sadly, despite some Christian, redemptive metaphors about life, death and resurrection, JUNGLE CRUISE has a strong Romantic worldview that attacks traditional morality. The heroine is a spunky female who’s bucking the staid, corrupt male establishment. Traditional rules don’t apply to her. Also, her prissy brother comes out as homosexual and makes a lewd sodomy joke at one point. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for JUNGLE CRUISE.
Blunt recalled some other “stressful” situations she’s been in as an actress.
“I did some wire stuff in EDGE OF TOMORROW, which was probably more dangerous, because I took some spills,” Blunt remembered. “But with [MARY POPPINS RETURNS], that entrance was very stressful for me.”
She “had to start in the clouds and come all the way down and I’m supposed to walk effortlessly into my close-up as if it’s nothing. And I did three takes — and then I felt my tolerance go, ‘Pfft!’ and that was it. I was done,” she explained.
Despite her success as an actress, motherhood is her priority. Last summer, Blunt announced that she was taking a break from acting to be with her daughters.
“This year, I’m not working. I worked quite a bit last year and my oldest baby is 9, so we’re in the last year of single digits,” she explained. “And I just feel [like] there are cornerstones to their day that are so important when they’re little. And it’s, ‘Will you wake me up? Will you take me to school? Will you pick me up? Will you put me to bed?’ And I just need to be there for all of them for a good stretch. And I just felt that in my bones.”
“It is that and more,” Blunt told PEOPLE. “I know that everybody says that. Everybody says, ‘Oh it’s the best — it’s the best thing ever!’”
Movieguide® previously reported on Blunt:
Emily Blunt credited her children as her “Saving grace” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I’m so thankful I’ve been able to have the time together with my family,” Blunt told PEOPLE. “Because I think I will probably look back on it and realize how precious it’s really been.”
The London-born actress, 37, has two daughters, Hazel, 6, and Violet, 4, with her husband, John Krasinski.
“Being around little ones during the pandemic was such a saving grace because they would just be bouncing around the house, and your job is to protect them from what is happening and make sure their life remains joyful,” Blunt said.
“That was a pretty great lifeline for John and me during the pandemic, for sure.”
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