‘The English’s Star and EP Emily Blunt On Evolving The Western Hero & An ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’ Sequel: “I Would Love To Do Another One”
deadline.comEmily Blunt just added another string to her bow. From Queen Victoria to Mary Poppins, to a cutthroat Vogue assistant in The Devil Wears Prada, a gun-toting alien killer in A Quiet Place and a straight-up action hero in Edge of Tomorrow, one thing Blunt had never done was a Western.
But her role in Hugo Blick’s The English is no damsel in distress: Cornelia Locke is a woman dead set on revenge, with the bow and arrow to prove it.
Teamed up with Chaske Spencer as Eli Whipp, a Pawnee warrior, Blunt brings a complex, real woman to the Wild West. DEADLINE: Hugo Blick has said that he fitted the part of Cornelia to you.
This project is also the first time you’ve taken on a producing role, so how did you and he collaborate to develop the character? EMILY BLUNT: She’s the most alive character I’ve ever read on a page.
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