Several years ago, before Emily Blunt got pregnant, I was sort of concerned about her diminishing appearance. Blunt always had a great figure – she was athletic and fit without looking sinewy or ‘roidy, but at some point, it seemed like she lost a significant amount of weight and you could really see it on her face. It was worrisome, even though it happens all the time in Hollywood – someone gets praise for looking fit and healthy and then they lose a lot of weight. But then Emily had a healthy pregnancy and I have to say, post-pregnancy, she’s back to looking fit and healthy.
Why bring this up? Because it seems like we weren’t the only people noticing Emily’s thin look. In some Sony Hack documents, Amy Pascal tells a director that she’s “worried” about Emily because she “looked anorexic.”
Emily Blunt is best known for playing an under-nourished fashion magazine assistant in Vogue satire The Devil Wears Prada, chastising Anne Hathaway’s character in one scene: ‘You eat carbs, for heaven’s sake.’ But it appears Hollywood executives are worried life is imitating art for the 32-year-old, Roehampton-born actress.
In an email discussing her possible role as super-villain Scorpion in a Spider-Man spin-off, Sony Pictures chairwoman Amy Pascal wrote she was ‘worried’ about Blunt.
‘I think I saw a picture of her and she looked anorexic,’ Pascal told director Drew Goddard and fellow Sony executives in the missive, one in a series of emails that have just been published by WikiLeaks. Goddard was keen for Blunt to star in his film Sinister Six, however, earlier enthusing to Pascal: ‘F***. Even as I type this . . . Picture Emily Blunt with a Scorpion tail on . . . Oh g-ddamn it, now I might need her for Sinister Six. Or, at least, Sinister Six Two.’
The Pascal email was sent in May last year, just months after Blunt gave birth to her first child, daughter Hazel, with her actor husband John Krasinski. No casting has yet been announced, so it remains to be seen whether Pascal won the day.
Emails also reveal that Emily was considered for two other Sony Pictures films, both about alien invasions, which ultimately ended up going to lesser known actresses. Pascal claimed she ‘loved’ the idea of Emily Blunt for Adam Sandler film Pixels, due out this summer, but the role went to True Detective actress Michelle Monaghan. Blunt was also considered for The 5th Wave, out next year, but was pipped to the part by Maria Bello. Yesterday a spokesman for Blunt declined to comment.
I really can’t decide how inappropriate this is. I always say that it’s okay to simply NOTICE when someone has lost a lot of weight, because that’s human nature. We’re visual animals. We all look at celebrities and think, “Oh, he looks different, what is it? His face is pulled too tight” or “she’s lost a lot of weight since I last saw her.” If Amy Pascal was just chatting with a friend or colleague and said, “I’m sort of worried about Emily Blunt, someone needs to tell her that she’ll get more work if she gains a few pounds back,” I think that would be… normal. That would be something I could see myself doing, honestly. But it feels like Amy Pascal was bad-mouthing Emily to a director who wanted to hire Emily, like “anorexic” was an insult rather than a legitimate concern.
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