After more than 20 years of acting professionally, Emily Blunt admits kissing certain actors has made her sick.
During a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show, the actress opened up about her approach to building chemistry with co-stars. “I’ve had chemistry with people I haven’t liked,” The Fall Guy star told Stern.”
When the talks how host asked who she was referring to, Emily Blunt refused to share. “I have had chemistry with people who… I have not had a good time working with them,” she continued. “Sometimes it’s a strange thing. Sometimes you could have a rapport that’s really effortless, but it doesn’t translate onscreen.”
Noting that chemistry is a “strange thing” to her, Blunt said, “It’s an ethereal thing that you can’t really bottle up and buy or sell. It’s like there or it’s not. It’s just easier when you have a natural rapport with someone.”
Noting the important factor in finding chemistry with her co-stars, Emily Blunt said she has to find something she loves about everyone. “I have to find something… Even if it’s one thing. It might be that they have a nice laugh or I like how they speak to people. They’re polite. I mean, it might be something random.”
She continued to say, “But find something you love about that person or something you love about them as the character and then kind of lean into that.”
However, despite finding things she loves about her co-stars, there have been moments that have been downright gross for Blunt. “I wouldn’t say it’s sort of extreme loathing, but I’ve definitely not enjoyed some of it,” she said.
Emily Blunt Reveals the Things She Loves About Her Co-Stars Ryan Gosling, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
Turning her attention to her The Fall Guy co-star Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt reflected on the things she loves about the actor.
“I love his wife, Eva,” she gushed. “I love their children, and I feel like I’m very lucky to be friends with a gem of a person like him.
Also speaking about her Jungle Cruise co-star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Emily Blunt declares she loves him. “I remember walking into my TV room and my brother was mainlining the Rock,” she said. “Then I’m working with him years later. It’s just so wild.”
She then told Howard Stern it was important to give her co-stars a present once their film projects wrap. “I just think it’s important,” she said. “You’ve survived something together. You’ve been in this insular world [with] these incredibly accelerated friendships.”
She went on to add, “You’ve done something impossible – it’s impossible to make a film.”