Emily Blunt and Hugh Jackman on Making Musicals (and Horror!) at the Movies

Emily Blunt and Hugh Jackman sat down for Variety’s Actors on Actors.

For more, click here.Anyone who’s ever seen “The Greatest Showman” or “Les Misérables,” or the Broadway musical “The Boy From Oz,” knows that Hugh Jackman can belt out a tune.

This Oscar season, however, he’s resting his singing voice and taking on another challenge by portraying Gary Hart, the idealist Democratic senator whose 1988 presidential bid was derailed amid allegations of infidelity, in “The Front Runner.”With Jackman hanging up his dancing shoes, it’s up to Emily Blunt to score a musical hit with “Mary Poppins Returns,” the follow-up to the 1964 Disney classic.

In addition to putting her own spin on the famous nanny, Blunt scored with the horror hit “A Quiet Place.” The film marked her first on-screen collaboration with her husband, the actor and director John Krasinski, requiring her to perform the

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