Emily Blunt wanted to embody complicated women onscreen.The “Sicario” and “Devil Wears Prada” star revealed that she once told a screenwriter to write her character “like a guy” to not be one-note.
“‘Write me like a guy and I’ll do the ‘girl’ stuff.
Just write me as you would a man: fallible and complex and difficult and shady,’” Blunt recalled to Porter magazine.
“And we are still having to remind people to not hold women to a certain ideal.”Blunt now leads Prime Video series “The English,” in which she plays a woman seeking revenge for the death of her son in the Wild West.
She also executive produces the series.“I do love that she shows up like Alice in the Wild West and that she looks the image of the feminine ‘ideal.’ And yet, there’s this fever in her for revenge,” Blunt said.
“She
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