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  • Emily Blunt, Camila Alves Become U.S. Citizens, Jimmy Kimmel Tests Blunt

    Emily Blunt and Camila Alves became U.S. citizens in August, and while a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, Blunt recalled the momentous day.

    “I hope you know how thrilled I am that you are one of us now,” Kimmel told the Into the Woods star.

    “Really?” Blunt asked. “Did you not like that I wasn’t before?”

    “There was a wedge between us, I felt like, yes,” Kimmel said. “We always get the sense that when people come here from England they kind of look down their noses at us.”

    “Oh, we do! Yeah! Very much. Because we’re better than them. But now I’m only half better,” Emily Blunt replied.

    Blunt dished about standing next to Matthew McConaughey’s wife, Camila Alves, as she became a U.S. citizen at the same time. She says McConaughey showed up dressed like he was headed out on safari.

    “You could have worn a shirt and tie,” Emily Blunt told the actor, adding, “Like, Camila looks amazing!’”

    She told Jimmy Kimmel that all her husband, John Krasinski was thinking the whole time was Matthew McConaughey’s film line, ” “All right, all right, all right.”

    “That’s all he was thinking about the whole time,” she said, adding that Krasinski had all he could do to prevent himself from saying the line.

    Emily Blunt said the hardest part of becoming a U.S. citizen was denouncing Queen Elizabeth.

    “It wasn’t specifically Queen E, but she knows,” Blunt joked, adding “The thing that’s weird is I do get to keep both my British citizenship and this, but you have to renounce her. So, it’s kind of typically American—not to be rude—but I had to renounce her in the room but I don’t actually, technically renounce her. They’re like, ‘Just say it. You don’t have to mean it, but just say it.’”

    Blunt shared that some of the questions she had to answer were a bit absurd.

    “They asked me things like, ‘Are you a habitual drunkard?’ And I said, ‘Well, I was last night,’” she said, adding that her lawyer wasn’t amused by her jokes. “‘Have I ever been a prostitute?’ was another question. I said, ‘Well, I was.’”

    Jimmy Kimmel then gave Emily Blunt his own set of questions toanswer in order to become a true American citizen.

    “This will determine if you are indeed an American citizen,” he said.

    Kimmel proceeds to ask the following three questions.

    1. What are the giant refillable sodas at 7-Eleven called?

    2. What does MLB stand for?

    3. What does DQ stand for?

    Check out Emily Blunt’s answers in the clip below.

    Congratulations to both Emily Blunt and Camila Alves for becoming U.S. citizens. Do you suppose someone is quizzing Camila the same way Jimmy Kimmel quizzed Emily Blunt?

  • Bernadette Peters, Original “Into The Woods” Witch, To Reunite With Original Cast

    Bernadette Peters, Original “Into The Woods” Witch, To Reunite With Original Cast

    Bernadette Peters made a very memorable run on Broadway as the original witch in Into the Woods before Meryl Streep brought the role to the mainstream with the movie.

    Bernadette Peters will be joined by original cast and crew from the 1987 Tony award-winning production for a special panel on June 21st at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

    In attendance will be Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, along with Tony winner Bernadette Peters, Tony winner Joanna Gleason, who played the Baker’s Wife, Chip Zien, who played the Baker, Robert Westenberg, who played Cinderella’s Prince, and Kim Crosby, who played Cinderella.

    Also in attendance will be Danielle Ferland, the original Little Red Riding Hood, and Ben Wright, the original Jack.

    What an amazing and interesting reunion!

    In a 2014 interview for Playbill, Bernadette Peters revealed some of her favorite memories from the production.

    When Bernadette Peters was asked about her favorite onstage or rehearsal memory, she said, “The memory that stands out the most for me is when our choreographer, Lars Lubovitch, tied me up so that I would get the feeling of being hunched over in a croney position to play the haggard witch.”

    She added, “So every morning I’d come in to rehearsal and Lars would tie me up and there would go Bernadette, rolling around the rehearsal room, until one day, he said, ‘You got it… No need for the ropes anymore!’ That was a happy day!”

    Bernadette Peters also remembered a story involving Stephen Sondheim.

    She said, “It was wonderful to hear Steve talk about [“No One Is Alone.”] He said people think the song is about being alone, but it’s not. It’s about how we all affect one another… in everything we do it affects someone, and we have to think about that.”

    Interesting memories from Bernadette Peters! What do you think about an Into the Woods reunion?

  • Emily Blunt Disappointed Over Cannes Rule About Women Wearing Heels

    Emily Blunt spoke out about a rule at the Cannes Film Festival involving women wearing high heels. Yes, in a world where equality is supposed to reign, a rule at Cannes mandates women can’t attend premieres or certain social events if they aren’t wearing heels.

    This is absurd.

    The Into the Woods actress is at Cannes promoting her latest film, Sicario. She spoke out about the sexist practice during a press conference on Tuesday. She was asked about a report in which women were turned away from a screening of Carol because they wore rhinestone encrusted flats instead of the mandatory high heels. The group turned away included much older women and even some with medical conditions.

    “Yeah, that’s very disappointing,” Emily Blunt said. “To think there are these waves of equality and waves of people discovering that women are so fascinating and interesting to watch and bankable [on-screen].”

    Emily Blunt isn’t a fan of high heels–and she definitely doesn’t think people should be forced to wear them.

    “Everyone should wear flats to be honest,” she said. “We shouldn’t be wearing high heels anyways. That’s my point of view. I just prefer wearing Converse sneakers.”

    While Screen Daily reports that festival reps “confirm that it is obligatory for all women to wear high-heels to red-carpet screenings,” Cannes festival director Thierry Frémaux responded to the talk on Twitter on Tuesday, calling the rumors “unfounded.”

    Do you agree with Emily Blunt, that this rule about high heels at Cannes is archaic?

    It’s hard to fathom in this day and age that such a rule is even a consideration. While dress codes have their place, there are certainly many options for dressy flats that are just as appropriate for any event as high heels.

  • OJ Simpson Series: Selma Blair Cast as Kris Jenner in Upcoming ‘American Crime Story’ Run

    An OJ Simpson series is coming to American Crime Story, and actress Selma Blair has been cast in the role of Kris Jenner. Then, of course, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians martriarch was better known as Kris Kardashian. Her husband Robert Kardashian defended OJ Simspon in the murder trial of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

    Into the Woods star Billy Mangussen is set to play Kato Kaelin. David Schwimmer of Friends fame will play the role of Robert Kardashian, who was a close friend of OJ Simpson. John Travolta has been cast as attorney Robert Shapiro. Jordana Brewster will play Nicole Brown Simpson.

    Courtney B. Vance of Law & Order: Criminal Intent fame will play attorney Johnnie Cochrane. Cuba Gooding, Jr. will play OJ Simpson.

    There has been no word as to who will play Ron Goldman, or if he is even portrayed in the series.

    It was back in 1994 that OJ Simpson’s ex-wife and her friend were murdered. OJ Simpson was acquitted after an eight-month long trial in October of 1995.

    Will you be tuning in to watch American Crime Story: The People V OJ Simpson? Shooting has already begun on the miniseries in L.A.

    Do you remember where you were when OJ Simpson graced TV sets all across the U.S. during his run from police in his infamous white Bronco?

  • Anna Kendrick: ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Star to Perform at the Oscars

    Anna Kendrick: ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Star to Perform at the Oscars

    Anna Kendrick is set to perform at the Oscars on February 22nd, but it’s uncertain exactly what the Pitch Perfect 2 and Into the Woods star will do. The shows producers, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, have merely said that Kendrick will do “something special that is sure to be an ‘Only on the Oscars’ moment.”

    Kendrick sang a hit song from Pitch Perfect called ‘Cups’ that made it all the way to the number six spot on the Billboard Charts. It was featured on the Pitch Perfect soundtrack and marked the first time Anna Kendrick was considered both an actress and a pop music star. She joins a lineup of spectacular performances at the 87th Oscars that includes actor Jack Black, singer Rita Ora, and John Legend together with Common, who will perform ‘Glory’ from the movie Selma.

    Anna Kendrick tweeted word of her invitation to perform at the Oscars earlier on Monday.

    Scarlett Johansson, Octavia Spencer, Zoe Saldana and Josh Hutcherson were added to the roster of Oscar presenters on Monday. They will join perviously scheduled presenters including Benedict Cumberbatch, Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep, and Marion Cotillard.

    Will you be tuning in to the Oscars to see Anna Kendrick and her “special performance” on February 22? Do you expect she might do an updated version of ‘Cups’ or perhaps even something from the upcoming Pitch Perfect 2? Or will she do something completely unexpected that will find fans even more enamored with this talented actress and singer?

  • Anna Kendrick Talks About Ryan Gosling Sexual Tweet and Candid Social Media Presence — ‘I Don’t Give a (F-Bomb)’

    Anna Kendrick is fearless (and hilarious) when speaking her mind and could care less what others may think of her candid presence on social media.

    In an interview with with Nylon magazine for its February edition, the actress said she doesn’t give a thought to whether her posts could be seen as offensive.

    “I don’t give a f***. Twitter is only 140 characters. There’s really not that much that I could reveal, then regret later,” she told the magazine.

    An example of her honestty — as well as her unique sense of humor — is a tweet she posted two years ago about Ryan Gosling, which has been retweeted over 36,000 times.

    “Ugh – NEVER going to a Ryan Gosling movie in a theater again. Apparently masturbating in the back row is still considered ‘inappropriate,’” the Into the Woods actress tweeted.

    When Nylon asked her about the tweet, she said, “Thank God I’ve never been in a room with him!”

    She reflects on that idea for a moment before adding: “I don’t feel embarrassed, though. I’m sure he has a sense of humor. But I’d probably feel like I’d have to address [the tweet], and I’d end up saying something to make it much, much worse.”

    Kendrick’s BFF, Aubrey Plaza, told the magazine that the 29-year-old actress is “the weirdest combo of impulsive tequila-drinking party girl and 80-year-old senator’s wife from Vermont.”

    “She loves Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, can rap ‘99 Problems’ from start to finish, scarfs down burgers in six-inch Louboutins, while beating you at Assassin’s Creed. But guys are probably afraid to hit on her because she’s intimidating,” said Plaza.

    Here are a few of her latest (hilarious) and greatest tweets:

  • Anna Kendrick Says Getting a Massage and Her Nails Done Are ‘Torture’

    Anna Kendrick is probably not having a whole lot of fun right now as she prepares for the Golden Globes Awards Ceremony scheduled for Sunday.

    The Into the Woods actress told People StyleWatch magazine that getting her nails done and having a massage is the last thing she ever wants to do.

    “I find getting my nails done the most tedious thing,” said Kendrick. “I’m such a fidgety person; it’s like torture.”

    She also said her thoughts about getting massages is very atypical.

    “Everybody loves massages; I don’t know what my problem is,” she says. “I feel like I have to talk to the masseuses.”

    The Pitch Perfect star said whenever she goes for a massage she winds up talking to the masseuse rather than enjoying the experience.

    “Pretty soon, I’m asking for their grandma’s recipe for apple pie and pretending like I’m interested. Why?” said Kendrick. “Besides, I’d rather do this face to face when their hands aren’t all over my naked body.”

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  • Anna Kendrick Not Interested In Prince Charming

    Anna Kendrick steps into gold slippers to play Cinderella in the movie Into the Woods, and subsequently nails it.

    But the real-life Anna Kendrick isn’t so keen on finding her Prince Charming.

    On a recent airing of Good Morning America, the Pitch Perfect starlet dished on her views of true love and fairy tale endings.

    “I’ve never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types, no quarterbacks, no flashy guys and no Prince Charmings. Chris Pine’s version of Prince Charming is so funny, and so on-point, and very much all style and no substance,” she said of her co-star.

    Anna Kendrick continued, “A [date] once picked me up in a Mustang and he was leaning on the hood of it. He was waiting for me and I was inside my apartment, looking out the window, thinking ‘Oh, this is going to go terribly.’”

    Like kids at Disneyland. Photo cred: the great Chris Pine. #OneDayToIntoTheWoods

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    And I’m sure it did.

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    Anna Kendrick then proceeded to lay down some sage advice to those looking for love in this mixed-up world.

    “The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A guy who finds it amusing to make you uncomfortable, which is more common that you’d think, is someone you want to avoid.”

    Truer words of advice were never spoken.

    As far as love goes, she isn’t taking any advice from her divorced parents.

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    “They taught me that staying together for the kids is the wrong approach. It perpetuates this warped idea of what a healthy relationship looks like,” she said of their broken marriage.

    Oh, well. I’m sure Anna Kendrick will find love someday!

    What do you think about her outlook on love and relationships? Agree or disagree?

  • Anna Kendrick Offers Advice On (NOT) Finding Prince Charming

    Anna Kendrick, who plays Cinderella in Into the Woods, has some very specific thoughts about dating and finding Prince Charming, or not finding Prince Charming as the case may be.

    The 29-year-old opened up about love and dating in an interview for the cover of February’s edition of Fashion magazine.

    “The idea that Cinderella gets cheated on by her prince is the most twisted and genius concept,” she told the magazine and shared her viewpoint on what type of men should be avoided.

    “I’ve never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types, no quarterbacks, no flashy guys and no Prince Charmings. Chris Pine’s version of Prince Charming is so funny, and so on-point, and very much all style and no substance,” she said of her Into the Woods costar. “A [date] once picked me up in a Mustang and he was leaning on the hood of it. He was waiting for me and I was inside my apartment, looking out the window, thinking ‘Oh, this is going to go terribly.’”

    Kendrick continued to single out men who enjoy making a woman fearful or uncomfortable.

    “The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A guy who finds it amusing to make you uncomfortable—which is more common than you’d think—is someone you want to avoid.”

    Kendrick also shared lessons learned from her own parents divorce.

    “They taught me that staying together for the kids is the wrong approach. It perpetuates this warped idea of what a healthy relationship looks like.”

  • Emily Blunt Says Husband Didn’t Know She Could Sing

    Emily Blunt Says Husband Didn’t Know She Could Sing

    Emily Blunt spoke in an interview recently about whether or not she’s down for a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, and while she said she’s on board if everyone else is, talk soon moved to yet another movie starring the actress and Meryl Streep: the recently-released Into The Woods, in which Blunt shows off a rarely-heard singing voice.

    In fact, she says only her own mother knew she could sing; her husband, former star of The Office John Krasinski, had no clue.

    “My mom always thought I was a good singer, but I think all moms think their kids are good singers. That’s why you see these poor disillusioned people auditioning for American Idol….I think he was surprised even to hear that I was auditioning for a musical, because I hadn’t really sung in front of him ever—hummed in the car a few times, but nothing really,” Blunt said of Krasinski. “I think he was pretty taken aback.”

    The film is already getting amazing reviews as flocks of families set out on Christmas Day to theaters, but Blunt is already thinking about the future. Rumors that she’ll star as a superhero soon have been making their way across the web, and while she says that’s just the fans’ way of showing their love for her (for now), she did talk about another rumor that has been circling her name for the better part of a decade: a sequel to Prada, which would see her star once more as the hilariously bitchy Emily.

    “I would do it, but only if everyone did it. I don’t know why it hasn’t been done, but everyone’s got to do it.”

  • Anna Kendrick Says Meryl Streep Is a ‘Bro’ and Emily Blunt Is the ‘Kind of Gal Who Loves a Fart Joke’

    Anna Kendrick Says Meryl Streep Is a ‘Bro’ and Emily Blunt Is the ‘Kind of Gal Who Loves a Fart Joke’

    Anna Kendrick had a few things to say about her Into the Woods costars during a game of “Cinder-Tell-A!” with Andy Cohen Tuesday.

    The Pitch Perfect 2 star made an appearance on Watch What Happens Live! and played a rapid-fire round of the game — aptly named for her Into the Woods character — with Cohen, dishing on her famous cast-mates.

    When asked to rate Meryl Streep, who plays the film’s witch, on scale of Meryl to Meryl -— awesome to icy, Kendrick spitted out, “She’s not that Meryl. No. I mean, ’cause you think Meryl and you think she’s going to be like cold and regal and you have to talk to her about very serious things,” Kendrick tried to explain. “She just wants to have a beer and talk about the MTV Movie Awards. She’s just kind of a bro. She’s not super Meryl, for Meryl.”

    Next up was a question about what Chris Pine tasted like during their onscreen kiss.

    “Cinnamon in a meadow. Dreams,” she said, adding that his butt was “taut and covered in blue velvet. In pale blue velvet.”

    Kendrick said her biggest disappointment came when actor Jake Gyllenhaal, who was slated to play the Prince, quit the musical to work on Nightcrawler.

    “I didn’t know anybody on the set and it was a real intimidating cast,” she said. “I was going to be all alone, I was going to be Sally No Friends. And it’s all your fault, [Jake].”

    On the other hand, the 29-year-old actress and singer said the nicest surprise was the friendship she developed with actress Emily Blunt, who plays the Baker’s wife.

    “She’s real self-deprecating. She’s another one you’d think she’d be like cool and English and icy but she’s the kind of gal that who loves a fart joke and I appreciate that,” Kendrick said.

  • Anna Kendrick Aimed For a Different Role in ‘Into the Woods’

    Anna Kendrick plays Cinderella in the upcoming Into the Woods film. Twelve-year-old Lilla Crawford plays Little Red Riding Hood. The movie is based on a popular musical theatre piece by Stephen Sondheim and is a theatre fan favorite.

    What non-theatre-goers may not know is that the role of Little Red Riding Hood in the musical is usually played by an adult woman.

    “They told me an actual 12-year-old would play Little Red Riding Hood,” Anna Kendrick told ET recently. “In the show it’s a grown woman, so I was like, ‘Put me in! I can do it!’”

    In fact, when Kendrick told Variety that when she first auditioned for the film, she thought that was the part she was going for.

    “They did a workshop in New York and my agent asked me to put myself on tape. First of all, I thought I would be auditioning for Little Red, because normally, that’s played by a grown woman. When he told me I would be auditioning for Cinderella that was a mental adjustment.”

    Anna said that doing the role of Cinderella also meant she had one of the toughest songs in the show.

    “It’s a register I haven’t sung in before,” she said. “I hope I’m not being biased to say I think it’s one of the most challenging songs in the piece.”

    But she also made the surprising confession that she had never seen Into the Woods live before doing the film, but she was certainly familiar with the live version.

    “I don’t know that I have [seen it live],” she said. “I feel like I’ve seen it live because I grew up watching the Bernadette Peters VHS.”

    Kendrick has now done three musicals in a row: Pitch Perfect, The Last Five Years, and Into the Woods. She hopes to take a rest from the format for a bit and do something else.

    “I think musical theater was the first thing that interested me. I always thought of the two of them going hand in hand… Into The Woods and The Last Five Years are two of the greatest pieces of musical theatre ever,” she said, “so obviously it was a dream come true. I think I would enter into something else cautiously.”

  • Anna Kendrick Sings Her Heart Out in The Last Five Years Film

    Actress and singer Anna Kendrick seems to be the current go-to girl for modern film adaptations of Broadway musicals. Not only will she be appearing as Cinderella in Into the Woods on Christmas Day, the 29-year-old is set to appear in the film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years.

    In the film Kendrick will play Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress who meets and forms a relationship with an up and coming novelist, Jamie Wellerstein. What makes this story so compelling is that Cathy’s story is told in reverse chronological order (beginning at the end of their marriage) and Jamie’s is told is chronological order (beginning as the couple first meets). The only moment their timelines intersect is during a wedding song in the middle.

    Jamie is played by Smash’s Jeremy Jordan. Brown, the creator of the musical, also appears in a scene of the film as a pianist at one of Cathy’s auditions.

    Filming began last summer in New York City and wrapped up within a month. The Last Five Years is set for release on February 13, 2015 but debuted at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival in September.

    Fans of musical are excited about the release of the film, but some reviewers are already critical. The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the relationship between Cathy and Jamie is “not interesting enough to sustain realistic treatment.”

    “It’s sweet but a tad dull,” David Rooney wrote after the premiere in Toronto. “The two characters lack dimension, and their stereotypical situations seem entirely generic. This has always been the case in a piece admired more for the lush melodies and naked emotions of Brown’s theater-pop score than for its storytelling. The evolution of the relationship is the show’s entire universe, and putting that relationship against a real-world backdrop exposes the narrative as emaciated and mundane.”

    Variety’s review does match Rooney’s in some ways, but it also reads that part of the film does improve on the stage version in that the audience gets to see the “crooned-over emotions writ large on the faces of its two terrific lead performers.”

    Although in the current musical limelight, Kendrick never planned on doing a bunch of movie musicals in a row.

    “Into The Woods and The Last Five Years are two of the greatest pieces of musical theater ever,” she said, “so obviously it was a dream come true. I think I would enter into something else cautiously.”

    In addition to Into the Woods and The Last Five Years, Kendrick will reprise her role of Beca Mitchell in Pitch Perfect 2, set for release on May 12, 2015.

  • Anna Kendrick Sings ‘Into the Woods’ Song

    Anna Kendrick Sings ‘Into the Woods’ Song

    Actress and singer Anna Kendrick will appear in the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway musical Into the Woods, and Disney released the audio of one of the songs she will perform.

    The track is called “On the Steps of the Palace,” and in the film, Kendrick’s Cinderella character sings it to her prince, played by Star Trek: Into Darkness star Chris Pine.

    Stephen Sondheim is the composer of the original musical, and Kendrick commented about what it was like working with him – “I had a really great and unique experience with Sondheim,” the 29-year-old remarked.

    “He was around giving me new lyrics, and I stood there and tried not to mess them up! That was obviously really exciting to realize that the material was still living and breathing and that I got to be a part of a song that was changing for the film adaptation.”

    Here is Kendrick’s rendition of “On the Steps of the Palace”:

    The film, a Walt Disney Pictures production, was adapted from a Tony Award-winning musical created by Sondheim and James Lapine. Into the Woods is an amalgam of various Grimm fairy tales, and concerns a childless couple who seek to break a hex they were cursed with by a sullen witch.

    The script adds a different take on various established fantasies including Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella. Kendrick, who plays a brunette Cinderella, commented, “it’s sort of all the fairy tales more or less as you know them, you know, intersecting and creating some degree of chaos in the woods.”

    The Twilight franchise actress, who garnered Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her work in 2009′s Up In The Air, added, “Cinderella is more or less the same story that we know for the first half of the movie. Then, of course, the second half is when all the characters have to come face to face with the consequences of their actions.”

    Here is the trailer for Into the Woods:

    Into the Woods was directed by Rob Marshall, and co-stars Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt and Johnny Depp. The film opens on Christmas day.

    In related news, out of Kendrick’s roughly two dozen tweets centered around the Thursday broadcast of Peter Pan Live!, the mostly profound would likely be a toss up between the following:

  • Emily Blunt The Life-Saver? Actress Shares How She Saved Meryl Streep’s Life

    Emily Blunt The Life-Saver? Actress Shares How She Saved Meryl Streep’s Life

    Emily Blunt is more than just a successful actress.

    Apparently, the famed Edge of Tomorrow actress is also a life-saver!

    On Tuesday, Nov. 25, Blunt appeared on The Late Show with Dave Letterman where she revealed how she actually saved Meryl Streep’s life, reports US Weekly.

    She recounted the events that led up to her heroic feat earlier this year when the two were shooting the film adaptation for Into the Woods.

    “I did save her life,” Blunt told Letterman of the 65-year-old actress. “We were rehearsing a scene where she’s playing the witch and she’s supposed to jump onto the table with a cape and everything.”

    In the film, Streep portrays The Witch who creates havoc for Blunt’s character The Baker’s wife.

    “I just saw this thing happen in slow-motion… You know when you see something awful happen and it’s like the sound cuts out, you know?” Blunt continued. “Meryl Streep’s foot got caught in her cape and we just started to watch her slowly topple headfirst toward the concrete floor.”

    “Rob Marshall and James Corden froze, didn’t move, and the pregnant woman caught her,” the British star said. “I caught her!”

    Blunt also quipped about how she expects to be compensated for her heroic efforts and the “torment” she suffered through while filming.

    “She owes me!” she exclaimed. “She should play my lowly dressmaker. She owes me big-time. She was tormenting me in [Devil’s Wears Prada], and now she’s tormenting me in this movie. She’s this witch that has cast this horrible spell on our house. I just said, ‘This is it.’ We couldn’t have any other dynamic now. ‘You just have to hate me in films.’”


    However, it’s quite obvious they have a “love-hate” relationship, because she still feels the veteran actress is rather amazing – annoying but, nevertheless, amazing!

    “She owes me, that’s why I think at some point I should play the Queen of Versailles and she can be my lowly dressmaker,” Blunt added. “I did mention it to her. I think it’s a great idea and I mentioned it to her, and her response was, ‘Dream on.’ That’s Meryl Streep… She’s so amazing, it’s annoying at this point. It’s annoying.”

  • Emily Blunt Shows Off Post-Pregnancy Figure On “The Late Show”

    Emily Blunt Shows Off Post-Pregnancy Figure On “The Late Show”

    Emily Blunt became a mom back in February, but it seems the gorgeous actress has already gotten her pre-baby figure back. Blunt, who’s promoting her latest film Into the Woods, stopped by The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday, November 25. The 31-year-old actress wore a classy knee-length white dress with black accents as she strutted her stuff in New York City. The simple yet elegeant look was made even simpler by the lack of accessories, save for the wedding bands given to her by husband John Krasinski.

    In an interview with E! News, Blunt revealed that she will be passing on her family’s tradition of reading before bed to her daughter Hazel. “She’s nine months old but she understands. She sits on me, this little thing, and she understands turning a page already and going on a journey,” Blunt said. The star added, “I just want her to have that satisfaction I had as a kid of finishing a book and the chunk of it and the weight of it and putting the book down and it’s done. You want things to be sensory for kids.”

    Blunt also spilled the beans on how much her husband loved Into the Woods. “He cried. He absolutely loved it,” she said about Krasinski’s reaction. “I think he was so moved by it by what it’s saying to this generation and that idea of nobody being alone at the end. It’s such an amazing theme running through this film. Yes it’s a musical but it’s not just a spectacle. It says some really profound things like be careful what you say to children. Children will listen.”

    On Sunday, November 23, Blunt joined her Into the Woods co-stars Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, and James Corden for an event promoting film. Into the Woods is based on the musical of the same name which melds various fairytales including Cinderella and Rapunzel into one overarching story.

  • Anna Kendrick on Jake Gyllenhaal, Feminism, and “Into the Woods”

    Anna Kendrick has become one of the most sought-after actresses in Hollywood, despite the criticism she has received for her looks. After making a name for herself in movies such as Twilight, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and cult hit Pitch Perfect, the actress has now been cast in half a dozen movies set to release within the next year.

    Kendrick’s latest role will be Cinderella in Into the Woods, which opens on Christmas day. The movie is a Rob Marshall-directed adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name. As part of her media tour in the run-up to the movie’s release Kendrick this week sat down with The Daily Beast to talk movies, Disney, and feminism.

    Kendrick kicked off the interview by playfully criticizing Jake Gyllenhall, who she starred with in 2012’s End of Watch. Gyllenhaal was originally cast as Rapunzel’s prince in Into the Woods, but later backed out. Instead, Gyllenhaal took on the more serious role of a disturbed crime paparazzi cameraman in Nightcrawler – a role for which he has generated some Oscar buzz.

    Kendrick said she texted Gyllenhaal after he dropped out of the project, sarcastically telling him that he was “abandoning” her. After seeing a Nightcrawler trailer she said she texted him again, telling him that he “inspires” her.

    From there the interview questions got a bit more personal.

    Kendrick agreed with the interviewer that the female characters in Into the Woods are more “modern” than their Disney counterparts. She then stated that she interprets feminism to mean supporting gender equality and laments the fact that the word has become a slur used by “the wrong people…and misinterpreted by those people.” She went on to say that she receives “crazy” replies on Twitter and that she admires the women involved in the #GamerGate controversy.

    Kendrick declined to talk on the record about her part in the recent celebrity nude photo leaks. She did say, however, that the “one and only good thing” to come out of the photo leaks was to shift the media conversation away from blaming the victims of such leaks.

  • Emily Blunt Says She ‘Saved’ Meryl Streep’s Life While Working on ‘Into the Woods’

    Emily Blunt Says She ‘Saved’ Meryl Streep’s Life While Working on ‘Into the Woods’

    Emily Blunt is a life-saver … literally.

    While visiting the Late Show With David Letterman on Tuesday, the 31-year-old shared how she saved Meryl Streep, her Into the Woods, from taking a nasty fall on set.

    “I did save her life,” exclaimed Blunt, who was pregnant at the time of the accident. “We were rehearsing a scene where she’s playing the Witch and she’s supposed to jump on the table with a cape and everything. And I just saw this thing happen in slow motion. You know when you see something awful happen and it’s like the sound cuts out? Meryl Streep’s foot got caught in her cape and we just slowly stared to watch her topple head first towards the concrete floor.”

    “Rob Marshall [director] and James Corden froze, didn’t move,” she marveled. “And the pregnant woman caught her…so she owes me, big time.”

    The much-anticipated movie adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical, which will be directed by Rob Marchall, is the second film on which the actresses have worked together. They teamed up in 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada and Blunt joked about their characters’ sparring matches in the film.

    “Yeah, she tormented me in that [Devil Wears Prada] and now she’s tormenting me in this movie,” said Blunt, who plays the baker’s wife in the film-version of the musical. “She’s the Witch that has cast a horrible spell on our house. So I just said this is it we couldn’t have any other dynamic now. You just have to hate me.”

    Blunt told Letterman she thinks the roles need to be reversed in their next on-screen matchup to even out the score.

    “Well she owes me. That’s why I think at some point I should play the Queen of Versailles and she could be my lonely dressmaker…” she said. “I mentioned it to her and her response was ‘dream on.’”

    Blunt went on to share her real thoughts on the legendary actress.

    “She’s so amazing it’s, like, annoying at this point.”

  • Emily Blunt Saves Meryl Streep From A Nasty Fall

    Emily Blunt Saves Meryl Streep From A Nasty Fall

    Emily Blunt recently proved that women can do anything–even while they’re carrying a little life inside them–when she saved Meryl Streep from taking a nasty fall on the set of Into The Woods.

    The women were in the middle of filming when Meryl jumped up onto a table in a small stunt, catching her foot in a piece of fabric. But what might have been a bad accident was prevented when Blunt, who was pregnant at the time, jumped forward and saved the day.

    “She starts to fall back, head first. Time slowed down and I thought, ‘I’m about to watch Meryl Streep die. It’s happening.’ I wish I could say I didn’t consider my own career in this and think, ‘This film’s gonna go down the (bleep).’ Rob Marshall freezes . . . The person who stepped in to save her life that day was not the two men in the room, but the pregnant woman leaps forward, catches Meryl Streep, and Rob and I were just like [gasp,” actor James Corden said.

    Blunt recently spoke about her now-9-month old daughter, Hazel, and how hubby John Krasinski got emotional when he first saw the movie because of what it says about the way we treat children.

    “He cried. He absolutely loved it. I think he was so moved by it by what it’s saying to this generation and that idea of nobody being alone at the end. It’s such an amazing theme running through this film. Yes it’s a musical but it’s not just a spectacle. It says some really profound things like be careful what you say to children. Children will listen,” she said.

    Into The Woods opens on Christmas Day.

  • Anna Kendrick Talks “Into the Woods”

    Anna Kendrick Talks “Into the Woods”

    Actress and singer Anna Kendrick recently opened up about her role in the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway musical Into the Woods.

    The film, a Walt Disney Pictures production, was adapted from a Tony Award-winning musical created by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Into the Woods is an amalgam of various Grimm fairy tales, and concerns a childless couple who seek to break a hex they were cursed with by a sullen witch.

    The script adds a different take on various established fantasies including Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella. Kendrick, who plays Cinderella, commented, “it’s sort of all the fairy tales more or less as you know them, you know, intersecting and creating some degree of chaos in the woods.”

    The Twilight franchise actress, who garnered Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her work in 2009’s Up In The Air, added, “Cinderella is more or less the same story that we know for the first half of the movie. Then, of course, the second half is when all the characters have to come face to face with the consequences of their actions.”

    Here is the trailer for Into the Woods:

    Into the Woods was directed by Rob Marshall, and co-stars Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt and Johnny Depp. The film opens on Christmas day.

    Kendrick, 29, is also a musician, and scored a hit in 2012 with her cover of a song called “Cups,” which was originally adapted by Lulu and the Lampshades from a 1931 recording entitled “When I’m Gone.”

    Kendrick’s rendition of “Cups,” which was recorded for her film Pitch Perfect, went on to chart at no. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

  • Anna Kendrick Talks “Into The Woods” Film

    Anna Kendrick may not be everyone’s first pick to play a princess in a film, but she said that she really enjoyed playing Cinderella in the new Disney film, Into The Woods.

    Of course, Kendrick’s version of Cinderella is a little different than what many princess fans are used to, but Kendrick said that she is proud of her character.

    She recently opened up about the film and her character to Time and said that she thinks her character will inspire young girls in different ways.

    “Into the Woods has existed for years, but if more people being exposed to it through this movie continues that trend of princesses saving themselves and making their own choices, I think that’s fantastic.I remember my best friend and I when we were running around the playground, she and I would dream about saving boys from falling off cliffs — not the other way around. But we would whisper these fantasies to each other, as though we weren’t supposed to be daydreaming about being the savior. We were supposed to be daydreaming about being saved. So I’m glad that it’s being represented in film because I think that that instinct exists in girls, and it’s nice to acknowledge that that’s normal,” she said.

    Kendrick also said that as a child she watched a different version of Into The Woods, but was not sure about the second half of it.

    “I grew up watching the Bernadette Peters version on VHS. Like so many people before me, I thought that the end of the first act was the end of the show because those are the stories that we know. And I was kind of unnerved by the second half. It made me feel uncomfortable. But that’s what makes it so compelling and beautiful. The second half of the show is where people have to face the consequences of their actions.” she said.

    What do you think of Anna Kendrick as Cinderella?