By 2006, Emily Blunt found herself sharing screen time with Hollywood royalty when she snagged a supporting role in "The Devil Wears Prada." Accordingly, she exhibited a striking maturity when hitting the red carpet, replacing her previous aesthetic with girlboss dresses, an overly bronzed complexion, and shimmering dark tresses. Speaking with W Magazine, Blunt revealed this newfound confidence was not lost on her mother, who lamented her daughter playing the "red-carpet robot" once she made it in Hollywood.
In "The Devil Wears Prada," which, incredibly, was Blunt's second-ever movie role, she played Emily, the stuck-up senior assistant to Meryl Streep's devilish Miranda Priestley. Although Emily could easily be dismissed as the catty female rival trope, Blunt sought to bring out the humanity and inherent insecurity of the character. "I decided that it would be better to play her as desperate and vulnerable, rather than b***hy," she told W Magazine. "She just defines herself by this association with her boss, and that's so sad."
Speaking with GQ, she likened her performance in the box office hit to John Cleese: "That physical stiffness, a flappiness, very British, very brittle humor." Moreover, she candidly discussed the body-negative aspects of the film, which paralleled the scrutiny she was now facing in Hollywood. "Everyone's deciding who hates your hair or your dress or they think you look pregnant because you have a slight bump. ... But that's the difference between being in LA and being in Vancouver or the UK," she reflected.
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