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From fashion flicks to cartel crime-thrillers, proud Brit Emily Blunt has made her home ? and name ? in Hollywood. Now she?s hoping to use her upcoming role as one of Disney?s strongest women to start making changes in the male-dominated world of the silver screen
Given that Emily Blunt first sashayed onto our screens as the haughty Emily Charlton in 2006?s The Devil Wears Prada, you could be forgiven for having trouble reconciling the same star with her recent roles in all-action thrillers and murder mysteries. Though there was little hint of it at the time ? behind her character?s clipped tones and passion for fashion lay an actress who was made of much sterner stuff.
From 2015?s drug drama Sicario to last year?s emotionally charged Girl on the Train, Blunt has cemented her cinematic credentials with a host of critically acclaimed performances. This recent resurgence as one of Hollywood?s leading ladies is made all the more impressive when you consider that, behind the scenes, the Wandsworth-born star was also dealing with the birth of her first child by US Office star John Krasinski. ?At first, I wasn?t sure I wanted to do Sicario because my daughter Hazel was still very young and I felt very emotional and vulnerable,? the 33-year-old explains. ?I wasn?t in the kind of mood to play an FBI agent who has a lot of issues in her life!?
But what Blunt quickly realised was that the new skills and sensibilities she had found as...