She's lean and mean, and we definitely wouldn't want to cross her in a dark alley. That's because Emily Blunt has been kicking all kinds of ass on the big screen as of late. In Sicario, due in theaters September 25, Blunt stars as an idealistic FBI agent who's thrust into the dangerous world of Mexican drug cartels when she joins a special team tasked with taking down an anonymous drug kingpin. She runs, she fires guns and she ain't afraid to wash a little blood off in the shower.
All in a day's work, right?
Those are just some of the reasons why we love Emily Blunt, and here are some more.
She's one of Hollywood's top female badasses
From Looper to Edge of Tomorrow to The Adjustment Bureau to Sicario, you'd be hard-pressed to find an image of Emily Blunt online where she doesn't look like she can take you out just by giving you a long, hard stare. I mean, one of her greatest characters was named Full Metal Bitch. Need we say more?
She can also hold her own in a good comedy
As much fun as it is to watch Emily Blunt punch and kick her way to our hearts, the actress is equally as impressive when it comes to her comedic work. Some of our personal favorites include The Five-Year Engagement, where she played a girl whose hectic life delays her wedding... for years, and The Devil Wears Prada, where she played Miranda Priestley's (Meryl Streep) ice-cold assistant opposite Anne Hathaway.
She's married to the guy you sit next to at the office
Okay, maybe not literally the guy you sit next to at the office, but she is married to John Krasinski, who's most known for his everyman role in NBC's The Office. (Fun fact: They got hitched at George Clooney's place in Italy.) The two have one child together, and we'd like to think they regularly mess with their friends and colleagues by putting their stuff in Jell-O. Please let this be true!
She can totally rock out on the cello
Emily Blunt may look good firing a weapon, but she also knows how to pull the strings on the cello from time to time. Yes, Blunt learned how to master the cello when she attended a coed boarding school back in the late '90s -- and she's definitely worked it into her repertoire on-screen from time to time. She can be seen playing the cello in the 2004 film My Summer of Love, as well as in the TV movie The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle. Watch that scene below.
She overcame a debilitating speech impediment at a very young age
When Emily Blunt was a young girl growing up in London, she had a terrible speech impediment. Speech issues actually run in her family, she's said, with her grandfather, uncle and cousin all having suffered with their speech. At the age of 12, when her speech problem was at its worst, Blunt had a teacher who pushed her to act in a play. Of course she didn't want to do that, but he told her to try acting with a different voice. So after she stood on stage for 15 minutes speaking perfectly in a Northern English accent, she realized the key to solving her problem. And, hey, the acting thing stuck around, too.
Watch Blunt talk more about her speech problem while accepting an award at the 2009 Benefit Gala for the American Institute for stuttering below.
