“You need to call her and fire her”: Emily Blunt Selfishly Got Her Mystery Friend Fired From Husband John Krasinski’s $341 Million Movie

Emily Blunt is one of the most established actresses in the world right now. The English actress first rose to fame back in 2006 after she portrayed the role of Natasha in Gideon’s Daughter. Blunt has also received many awards throughout her career as an actress including a Golden Globe award. She was also named one of the highest-paid actresses in the world back in 2020.

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Although she is an absolutely incredible actress, Emily Blunt once had to ask her husband, John Krasinski to fire another actress in his horror movie, The Quiet Place so that she could play the lead role instead.

John Krasinski initially offered the role of Evelyn Abbott to Emily Blunt

John Krasinski, the director of The Quiet Place and also the husband of Emily Blunt was in a complete ethical dilemma back in 2017. The Office actor had offered the role of Evelyn Abbott to his wife initially but Blunt turned it down. The couple appeared on The Graham Norton Show once and Blunt talked about her turning down the role at first. She said,

“We had just had our second child and I was about to do Mary Poppins so I was in a sort of general feeling of joy. I didn’t know if I wanted to go to the darkness of the pitch that he’d given me for this film.”

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Therefore, Emily Blunt turned down the role initially and in fact recommended another actress who she thought would be a great fit to play the role.

The actress made John Krasinski fire another actress to be in The Quiet Place

Emily Blunt had allegedly turned down the role of Evelyn Abbott before even reading the script for The Quiet Place. However, after reading the script, Blunt had a change of heart and asked Krasinski to be in the film herself. She said,

“You[John Krasinski] didn’t send her the script admittedly, she wasn’t sort of hired. Then I read the script and I was like ‘you need to call her and fire her’.”

Graham Norton even asked the couple if they are friends with that actress and Emily Blunt replied, “We are, until the movie comes out.”

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It does make sense though as she really did rob her of a role of a lifetime. Blunt also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Evelyn Abbott in The Quiet Place.

The Quiet Place is currently streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

Source: The Graham Norton Show