Actress Emily Blunt recently revealed the mean and cruel advice Tom Cruise gave her while working on the 2014 sci-fi film ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’.
During an appearance on the “SmartLess” podcast hosted by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes, Blunt shared the challenges of working on her first action-oriented film.
The actor said Cruise told him “pretty creepy” when they started filming that he was “the deep end of action for him. The “Mary Poppins Returns” star said her reaction was “If you say that, like, we’re in trouble.”
One stunt was particularly daunting because it required Blunt and Cruise to wear what he described as “really huge robotic suits” to do the scene “in a tactile way” rather than with CGI.
“And you know, when you hear the word tactile, you’re like, that sounds good and comfortable,” Blunt continued. “There was nothing comfortable about wearing these suits. For example, mine was £85. It was so hard.”
Blunt said the first time she put on the costume she started crying in front of her co-star. She confessed that she wasn’t sure she would make it through the shoot and admitted she felt “a bit panicky”.
Blunt said Cruise watched her for a while, trying to figure out what to say. His last choice of words?
“Come on, stop being a curmudgeon. OK?” Blunt reported, causing Hayes to snort and Bateman to quip: “Nice, good for Tom.”
“And I laughed and then I got over it,” Blunt said.
An “Edge Of Tomorrow” sequel has been in talks since at least 2019, and Blunt told EW in 2021 that he read a script “that was in really good shape.” However, he told Howard Stern at the time that he thought “the movie was probably too expensive.”
You can listen to the entire “SmartLess” interview below.
