Emily Blunt on the ‘worst thing ever’ to see in a script
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The actor can currently be seen in BBC Two drama The English, starring as a woman on a revenge mission in 1890s America who collides with Chaske Spencer’s Eli Whipp, a Pawnee-born ex-US army officer on an adventure of his own. In a four-star review for The Independent, Nick Hilton wrote that the series is “pure, delicious, American cheese that, at its best, feels like a Coen brothers creation”. And I loved Cornelia’s buoyancy, her hopefulness, her guilelessness.” She added: “It’s the worst thing ever when you open a script and read the words ‘strong female lead’. I thought that was very cool.” Chaske Spencer and Emily Blunt in ‘The English’ In another recent interview, Blunt said her actor brother-in-law, Stanley Tucci, “loves” his sex symbol status.