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Don’t let the name throw you. “The English” is a western, set primarily in 1890. It’s also the term that Indigenous Americans gave to foreign interlopers, regardless of nationality, who came West seeking their fortunes no matter the cost. Writer-director-executive producer Hugo Blick (“The Honorable Woman”) created a tale that is by turns eerie, grisly and […]

Since her scene-stealing breakthrough in The Devil Wears Prada, back in 2006, EMILY BLUNT has taken on blockbuster roles as varied as Mary Poppins, a suffering divorcee in The Girl on the Train and a survivalist mother in A Quiet Place. But, despite her stellar résumé, she remains remarkably ‘un-Hollywood’. Here, the British actor talks to KATIE BERRINGTON about her […]

Yellowstone isn’t the only Western galloping onto TV screens this weekend. Preceding the Paramount Network drama’s Season 5 premiere is the debut of the new Prime Video thriller The English, which casts executive producer Emily Blunt as Lady Cornelia Locke, an English aristocrat who arrives in 1890 middle America hellbent on avenging the death of her son. There, she crosses […]

The new Amazon series “The English” bears all the external signs of the classic westerns of yore, with scenes that could have been pulled straight from a 1950s Technicolor epic. There are horseback riders silhouetted against retina-singeing vistas, desolate outposts appearing like sunbaked hallucinations, and low-angle shots that magnify people into mythic figures. “I was enthralled, […]

“It’s awful,” the actress says of executing action sequences in a corset. Emily Blunt has danced across London, sung her way through the woods, and given birth silently during an alien invasion. But nothing tops having to do an action scene in a corset, which was a frequent occurrence on her new Prime Video series The English. “It’s so […]

Magazines & Scans > Scans from 2018 > Vanity Fair (February 2018) Photo Sessions > Photoshoots from 2018 > Session 001 Emily Blunt: World, Meet Your New Mary Poppins They don’t come more talented or tough-minded than Emily Blunt, but even she was initially daunted by the title role in Mary Poppins Returns, out next […]

Emily Blunt shares Julie Andrews’ reaction to Mary Poppins Returns casting After a string of increasingly dark roles including Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Sicario (2015), and Oct. 7’s hotly anticipated The Girl on the Train, Emily Blunt is ready to lighten up. “I enjoy the challenge to be versatile… [but] I want to find the silliness again,” she tells EW. And her next […]