Emily Blunt & Hugh Jackman - Actors on Actors - Full Conversation

The game was still polling forty percent. The closest rival was at 16 percent and I was saying please come back and run when he leaves. No, I refuse to subject my family and friends to this level of gossip, sleaze, and rumors. I won't do it anyway. Lee, his wife had just had a hip. surgery and I don't think she could be, you know who elective hip surgery is, he was sleeping downstairs on the folding couch and he said you'll sleep upstairs. I said oh so we go up and clearly I'm walking towards the master bedroom I said Garret oh can I sleep you guys no this is the best room and you sleep here and then he just cleared some space in his closet and said , you can put your clothes here, so it was like an actor. which is so immersive and then he's not one of those who drinks more than one of the best martinis, yeah, and then that first night we were smoking whiskey cigars at like 11 o'clock at 9:00 and we're friends until today, that's it- consuming and you must have been surreal it amazed me I knew I was going to see the movie yes, what did I think?

I was so happy with Vera's performance oh well the first thing you told me the name is very complimentary to me but he is a Gentleman it would have been even fantastic but he and then he had other comments about the films that I don't feel I can share , oh yeah, yeah, he's one of those people that every time I say something, I call him out. The other day I said I feel like saying this in an interview and he said who is he, I'm a lot stronger than you think, you can say anything I told you up there, you can say it, but he's just a private person, do you think?

In some ways, it's probably drama, I mean, that's what's so serious, is that he really believes that he really had ideas, you know, but he probably also believed that his private life had nothing to do with them and you can see that he believed that with everything he had, he is such. conviction, so he was almost confused why that would matter anymore and the way you portrayed it was so clever that it completes like the bewilderment of the whole thing, yeah and by the way, why does that have any weight? Sixty-five percent of people are shocked. when all this was happening he said the press had gone too far so he couldn't have had it was understandable that he believed it sure they were trying to lift the station, yeah, the press and change it forever, you know, do you think it was that ? from the first one, yeah, big, that set the template for how things move forward and you know when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when the character, we have a composite character age that I played by Mamadou when he says, have you ever committed adultery?

Yeah, he's just pining for us. That's like the question that broke the Internet and now, if you think it's very

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al, yeah, everything is anything, sure, you can go to court, but that was the phone, it was almost as inappropriate, how do you find it? We both live in New York and don't you think New Yorkers are so much cooler and they give you space and there's a kind of recognition and since we moved to Brooklyn, John and I think we were asked for a photo of people walking by next to you and says oh? That's, yeah, you know, people talk a lot about the movie or something and then they go on because usually I'm walking with my kids and there's a kind of recognition that it's not the right time and maybe it's because it's a city so busy that it moves so fast that I don't know that there is some kind of lack of ice.

I feel like you also find where you are in the city that's the most hectic because I find Brooklyn to be like that. I think it's a little quieter there, yeah, and you don't get as many tourists and you get Ozzy's pepper over there, no, but when we lived in Tribeca we did okay, yeah, we give them every once in a while, but no, the photo is not sold as I think. those paparazzi it's much better to be going out right yes yes partying yes that kind of thing is not being together 23 years old really doesn't sell much how cool you are you're right but something is about to change because leave me alone because with Mary Poppins and me We just experienced it, we're the greatest showman of the last year, that's going to change, yeah, and I, I don't know about you, I can tell you no, no, I can tell an adult that's weird, right?

Thank you. alone with my family and they almost always are, you don't know, I'm sorry, yeah, around 10 or 11, yeah, I think that's going to be a little different for me because my general rule of thumb is that when I'm with my kids, I'm like, what? you? I know what I won't take a photo, but I would love to shake your hand and you guys usually see your kids are there, it's like all they see is you for a second, and then all of a sudden they see your situation and then God. mine, of course, I'm very sorry, but I feel like it's different with children.

I also adore children and I love meeting them, yes, and I think it will be a challenge, yes, because they will see Mary Poppins. Well, the good news is. I look very different from Mary's problem, so I feel like I can fit in a little. You're a huge person, so how do you fit in? I don't know if John is a huge person, like he doesn't have a proper sentence. So, you know, the subway becomes quite impossible, yes, yes, yes, sure, but when you walk with your umbrella, but when I work with my umbrella, my rug bag and that pointer, now I have a question about how conscious you were like you What you're lifting up is an iconic image of the turnout, so you focus well on the toes because it's also on the front of all the books, so that's its shine, but the toes up is Like yeah, awesome, right, you were belly dancing, no, so no. because you dance up a storm, you had to do a lot, we did it, it was the first day of rehearsals, right, they handed me a hat and a cane, oh my God, and Rob is one of those as always, always a little embarrassed because he didn't being a trained dancer but being in musicals yes, they shout at the dancers and say: are you doing very well?

Maybe you know yes, you got it or Rob says no, not at all, Rob, he expects a lot from you, right? but because he's so charismatic and so charming, you can't bear to disappoint him, so I kept dancing until I turned blue. I thought, "I'm going to put this down." The first thing I can't do is turn, I can. I won't go back to save my life. Rob thinks he's really funny, so did he choreograph it? Oh, there's a twist and it was about six different cuts to get me like 360. It's embarrassing how bad, so that's the only thing you did in a couple. of twists, the best showmen.

I can do a couple of turns. I can only go in one direction, although that's it, so they choreographed it for me and they choreographed everything turning right so that the whole cast and I after that thought I could. do that, I can do that and then after about three I said okay can you all turn left and of course anyway great. I'm actually referring to Julie Andrews at a Royal Command Performance, one of those I did in 1998, yes, yes, and I was a bit starstruck I'll be clear that you knew her well I met her I met her years ago at some event No I remember it was like old ladies in one of those movies and she was so charming and so charming, I didn't know years later that they would offer me Mary Poppins, but Rob Marshall is very close to her, he was incredibly supportive of me in the role and she was excited for me to do it and I think she's been a big advocate for this, you know? who believes in the next chapter of this character, she also knows that there are seven other books and it was disconcerting, like when you're recording and you look around the corner, she's standing there, she was that way, no, in the background, soprano voice , she was so cool. she was great, she didn't intervene in the whole thing, yes, I understand that she would be worried about it raining on your parade or yes, I think so, and there was a discussion about, you know, maybe she would come and do a little bit in the movie and she She was so generous that she actually said to Rob, do you know what this is?

This is Emily's version of her and I don't want her to be playing Mary Poppins all the time, but then I come in and there's like, oh, but there's a real Mary Poppins, or she didn't want that for me, which I thought. incredibly kind and generous. Actually, I don't think she'll go in there. I hope how you felt after watching it, I kind of screamed, I cried. after watching it it was completely overwhelming and I'm not really one of those people who says my movie like I've never been. It's still quite complicated to see the things you do.

I tend to separate them. a little bit, but I saw it completely alone and I was so proud to be in it, yeah, just for Lord, I'm so excited that you felt that way because you should feel that way. I loved knowing how difficult it is to achieve that. and you and Rob and everyone, Lynne, you make it look really effortless, like, oh, it's a Sunday afternoon, everyone's sister, and it's not, and yeah, it was, it definitely took over my life for about a year and a half, almost two years since I got the call and then I started rehearsing the songs and I had a baby and then you stay without rehearsing.