The Devil Wears Prada co-stars reunite for Variety’s Actors on Actors and the 2 share their experiences working with Nolan on their tasks.
Variety has launched its latest pack of actor interviews, the place film friends get to interview one another on their craft and their experiences on their newest movies. The little interview sequence, titled Actors on Actors, pairs collectively notable names who you normally don’t see collectively for any mission, however this 12 months contains some seemingly deliberate combos. Margot Robbie and Cillian Murphy bought to speak about their “Barbenheimer” experiences in a single video. Then, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt bought to have a Devil Wears Prada reunion in one other, the place in addition they shared their experiences of working with Christopher Nolan.
Once the topic is breached, Blunt instantly refers to him as “Captain Extraordinary.” Hathaway obliges, and the 2 joke about Nolan’s lack of effusiveness whereas directing, in order that they have to search out different tells that he’s pleased with a take. Blunt jokes, “I always feel that with Chris’ hair. I can tell when he is very happy with a take because his hair starts to dance. It’s almost like he vibrates when he’s happy. He’s not going to tell you that he’s that happy, though, because he’s very English.”
Hathaway then shared a narrative a few time he ready her for a selected shot whereas engaged on The Dark Knight Rises, “The part that blows my mind about Chris is that he is authoritative in the best sense of the word. I remember one day we were doing a shot on The Dark Knight Rises. He came to me beforehand and said, ‘I just want you to know, this shot has lived in my head for many years. I’m going to be very specific about it. I’m going to make you do it a lot, but it’s not actually you. It’s just because I have it in my head a certain way.’ For him to say that in a way where, as an actor, you don’t start to question yourself!”
Blunt would additionally regale Hathaway with the truth that she didn’t get to see Oppenheimer with an viewers because of the strikes, so she and her husband, John Krasinski, would sneak right into a theater to see the reactions. “Because of the strike, we didn’t get to watch the movie with an audience. I realized that Oppenheimer was going to be a very significant moment in cinema history when John [Krasinski, her husband] and I managed to find two seats at an Imax in Nyack, N.Y., in a shopping mall. We snuck in when the lights went dark, and I saw a group of teenage boys coming in dressed as [Cillian Murphy]. In Nyack, N.Y.! I got chills. I called Cillian afterwards and said, ‘You’re not going to believe what I just saw.’”
