Actress Emily Blunt Reveals How She Overcame This Personal Struggle
By Movieguide® Staff
Actress Emily Blunt, known for EDGE OF TOMORROW and A QUIET PLACE, recently opened up about her speech impediment while hosting the American Institute for Stuttering’s 2022 Freeing Voices, Changing Lives Gala in New York City.
“Stutterers are my heroes,” Blunt said. “That’s why I am here.”
“It’s not that you’ll never not be a stutterer. I’ll always be one,” she told Variety earlier at the event. “Occasionally, it will sort of rear its head if I’m on set or having to pitch an idea. It’s pressurized situations that are quite hard for stutterers. A pressurized situation where you have to be persuasive and communicative are quite challenging still for me.”
Blunt said that stuttering was hereditary and recalled how her mother tried to help her minimize the stuttering.
“My mom sent me to, like, cranial osteopathy. And then she tried everything. I would listen to dolphins at night… I think she thought it was because I wasn’t relaxed. And I was like, ‘No, I am fine! I am calm,’” she said.
At one point, she even gave up cello lessons.
“She couldn’t white knuckle it,” Blunt said of her mother. “You don’t know what it is. You don’t know how to help your child.”
Emily Blunt, married to fellow actor John Krasinski, is the mother of two children.
In the couple’s directorial debut, A QUIET PLACE, they explored hearing disability and celebrated family. Movieguide® honored A QUIET PLACE PART II as one of the best movies for mature audiences in 2021.
A portion of Movieguide®’s review of A QUIET PLACE PART II reads:
A QUIET PLACE PART II is the edge-of-your-seat sequel to the popular 2018 science fiction thriller. The opening shows what happened when the alien monsters first appeared in the small New York town where Lee and Evelyn Abbott were raising three children. Cut to 47 days later. Lee has died saving his family and their youngest son also died, but Evelyn has given birth to a fourth child. The family runs into a family friend, who goes after the daughter when she follows a musical signal leading to an island sanctuary just off the coast.
A QUIET PLACE PART II is a visceral, gripping, ultimately uplifting thriller that never lets up. PART II isn’t a didactic movie. The movie conveys its themes and messages by the action instead of the dialogue. As such, the movie sends a pro-life message that promotes family, parenthood and risking your life to save others from deadly, desperate situations. A QUIET PLACE PART II does, however, contain some brief foul language, violence and many scary moments. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children and other sensitive viewers.
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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.
What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.
You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.
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