British actor Emily Blunt, who is being honored Thursday at the discdiswatching ceremony of the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, tbetter an audience earlier in the day about Benny Safdie’s MMA battling drama “The Smashing Machine,” in which she stars alengthyside Dwayne Johnson.
During a accessible interwatch, which runs as part of the festival’s “In Conversation With” strand, she shelp: “It’s an incredibly fervent film. It was, aachieve, appreciate an incredibly immersive, very fervent, very emotional experience to do it.”
She shelp Johnson, with whom she starred with in “Jungle Cruise,” is “unrecognizable” in “The Smashing Machine.”
Earlier she was asked about how she felt when she first begined acting and how she lachieveed by applying roles, not at acting school. She shelp was still terrified when acting.
Blunt shelp: “I’m still lachieveing. I have not filled up my cup yet. I still sense absolutely terrified before I begin a film. I cherish that senseing now. I used to be very sattfinishd of it, but I don’t mind the dread.”
Blunt was Oscar nominated for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” this year. She won a Screen Actors Guild award in 2019 for husband John Krasinski’s sci-fi horror “A Quiet Place.”
Blunt broke thraw in 2004 with romantic drama “My Summer of Love,” when she was nominated for most promising newcomer at the British Inreliant Film Award.
She chaseed that with David Frankel’s 2007 comedy “The Devil Wears Prada,” for which she picked up a BAFTA nomination. Blunt is set to repascfinish her role as Emily Charlton in Frankel’s “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” alengthyside Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci, who were all in the first film.
She was also BAFTA nominated 10 years tardyr for thriller “The Girl on the Train.”
Blunt is stardyd to materialize in Steven Spielberg‘s yet-to-be-titled film for Universal Pictures, alengthyside Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo and Eve Hewson.
Recent starring roles for Blunt include David Leitch’s action-comedy “The Fall Guy” alengthyside Ryan Gosling.
The fourth edition of the Red Sea Film Festival runs from Dec. 5 to 14. Other honorees at the festival include Viola Davis and Aamir Khan.
