Emily Blunt moved to Brooklyn so her daughters can be interesting & interested

Heres Emily Blunt on the latest cover of ES Magazine, the London Evening Standards in-house magazine. Blunt is currently promoting A Quiet Place, the horror film directed by her husband John Krasinski. In this ES interview, she chats about the horror genre and how much she doesnt even like it, and she talks a lot

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Here’s Emily Blunt on the latest cover of ES Magazine, the London Evening Standard’s in-house magazine. Blunt is currently promoting A Quiet Place, the horror film directed by her husband John Krasinski. In this ES interview, she chats about the horror genre and how much she doesn’t even like it, and she talks a lot about politics, including the drama back in 2015 when she discussed her citizenship. Back in 2015, she officially became a dual British and American citizen. She did it for tax purposes, and I’m sure she also did it because she’s married to an American man and she’s raising her American-citizen daughters in America. Back then, she made several jokes about becoming a citizen as Donald Trump was running for president. I didn’t have a problem with those jokes, but Fox News had a problem and she was roundly criticized by those proto-Deplorables. (I did take issue with how she repeatedly called her citizenship “sad,” because she came across as very privileged.) Anyway, that’s the background for what she discusses in this interview:

On horror films: “I don’t watch horror films either! I would never be able to go and see It. I’ve not watched most of Get Out because I was too scared — which I apologised to Daniel [Kaluuya] for, ’cause he’s my friend.”

Her family lives in Brooklyn now: “I feel a lot more supported in my quest to create an exciting environment for my girls in Brooklyn. LA, however lovely it was to live in the sunshine — and we have wonderful friends there — was completely alien to what I knew. The idea of creating a world where my daughters can be interesting and interested is giving me a sense of great calm that I don’t know I felt before. Brooklyn’s kind of amazing, I’m not gonna lie. It’s a strange, utopian, fabulous world. John and I have become institutionalised; we just stay in Brooklyn now. The people are cool, we walk everywhere. The restaurants are fabulous and everyone has a stroller. So we fit right in.” They don’t get bothered in the street, which is a bonus “because I really love the idea of still being able to blend in. There’s a lot of very, very famous people in Brooklyn and it’s just a wonderfully supportive community. They just let you be who you want to be.”

How her family felt about her marriage to an American: “He’s from Boston. They’re quite British, the Bostonians, you know?”

Her uncle is Crispin Blunt, the Brexit supporting Tory MP: “I think it’s really sad. I’m really bummed about it. I just think that “globalisation is here guys, come on!” It is an interesting time in the world because it’s fragile, because it feels unsafe. It’s become this sort of “each to their own” mentality and you feel it. You feel people becoming more guarded, and more in the need to protect. It’s sad.”

Her jokes about her American citizenship: “It was a fairly innocuous joke because, you know, where I’m from we poke fun at our public figures… I think I wasn’t quite American enough to be able to say that. I have to be really careful now. Certain subjects, I just can’t. Because I’m also someone who loathes getting in trouble. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loathed getting in trouble.’

[From The ES Magazine]

Are Bostonians like British people? Hm. I think the upper-crust British society is probably a lot like the British aristocracy – Boston Brahmins are a real thing. As for what she says about Brooklyn… it just sounds like Peak Gentrified Brooklyn Hipster. She has every right to raise her kids how she wants to raise them, but it does seem like instead of embracing all of the quirky diversity of urban living, Emily and all of the other rich hipsters have just turned Brooklyn into something more homogenized, more elite, more white, more gentrified. It’s like Beverly Hills, just in a more concentrated, walkable area.

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Photos courtesy of WENN, cover courtesy of ES Magazine.

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