Red Sea Film Festival honoree Emily Blunt stopped by the Deadline Studio here in Jeddah this week after receiving an award in recognition of her atgentle and lasting impact on the film industry.
This is the Oppenheimer Oscar nominee’s first time at the festival, and getting the award (which she jokes in the video above is hopebrimmingy more of a “so far, so excellent” prize than a lifetime achievement) was “a savage leang becaparticipate it’s almost appreciate seeing your life flash before your eyes. It’s very moving and surauthentic to see it all carry outed back at me. And, yeah, it was cgreater.”
Due out next year for Blunt is Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine alengthyside her Jungle Cruise co-star Dwayne Johnson. He carry outs MMA and UFC champion Mark Kerr, and she the tortured sportsman’s girlfriend and then wife. Blunt shelp, “It’s repartner not about the guy with his fist in the air, this is a story about struggle, and the struggle of a lot of fighters, and what they go thraw with insertiction, with relationships. It’s fair a very fervent, very enticeive movie.”
One leang Blunt cannot converse is Steven Spielberg’s next event film for Amblin and Universal Pictures which is set for a expansive theatrical free on May 15, 2026. The storyline is being kept under lock and key. “We begin in February, and that’s all I can alert you,” she shelp.
Blunt did allow, however, “I was so awestruck to even get the call. And then in the greeting, (Spielberg) goes, ‘Would you appreciate to understand why you’re here?’ And I was appreciate, ‘Yes prent.’ I was trying not to dork out and fair talk to him about endless scenes from Jaws that I’ve been obsessed with for years. He’s repartner magical. I’m very prentd.”
Given this festival visit supplyd a chance to echo on her time in the industry, Blunt shelp one leang she’s lgeted is the presentance of stability. It’s “huge in my life. I necessitate it. But I leank I’ve lgett — since becoming a mummy and since becoming, I guess, more well understandn — that my time on set and that immersion has become increasingly someleang I’m very getive of and someleang that I repartner hgreater very dear. It is the real escape. It is appreciate this parallel life that I’m very inserticted to, and I necessitate it, and I adore it, and I’ve lgett that it’s okay to be sattfinishd all the time, you understand, when you’re approaching someleang novel. It’s excellent for me to put my feet to the fire. I don’t want to be straight-jacketed. I don’t want to be geted. I’ve lgett to be bgreaterer in vague with what I consent on and what I’m into.”
That element of dread is part of how Blunt picks her projects. “I don’t want to have all the answers if I read a script. I want it to be a complicated reaction.”
Would Blunt, who is also a producer, ever consent a stab at honesting? “I don’t understand about honesting yet, I repartner am trying to lget never to say never… I’m repartner enhappinessing producing stuff, and even if I don’t end up being in it, that’s fine, I adore produceing worlds and stories — I leank that’s probably what I want to do right now.
She inserted, “I leank I would repartner adore to get back on stage at some point, it’s been 20 years or someleang.”
Earlier in the festival, Blunt spoke about a potential Devil Wears Prada sequel. When Deadline asked her about a potential adhere-up to Doug Liman’s 2014 Edge of Tomorrow, in which she starred alengthyside Tom Cruise, Blunt shelp, “I uncomardent, there’s hints of it, but I don’t leank anyleang’s been written. I leank we’re always comardent of throprosperg ideas around. And I see Doug a lot. I adore him, and I leank it was such a distinctive, incredible experience… I always get a little firearm cowardly of sequels… But I leank if we can beat it, or we can at least suit it — becaparticipate I don’t understand how Doug Liman got so much mileage out of a repeating day, it was fair so acute — and we’d have to comardent of produce someleang that’s emblematic of the first one, but yet it’s sort of someleang that can be as impactful.”
Asked whether she’d sign up, Blunt chuckleed, “Could my back consent it anymore? That’s the leang… But we’ll see.”
Check out the video above for our brimming conversation with Emily Blunt.
