Photo:Harperâs BazaarUK/Tom Schirmacher
Harperâs BazaarUK/Tom Schirmacher
The name “Emily Blunt” doesn’t quite make an impact on her kids the same way “Mom” does.
In a cover interview forHarper’s BAZAARUK’s July/August issue, theOppenheimeractress says her two daughters with husbandJohn Krasinski—Violet, 7, andHazel, 9 — aren’t that impressed when they see her in movie ads, despite how large they may be.
“When I see myself up on a billboard, I have this complete dissociation with it … I’m like, ‘Who’s that?’ " said Blunt, 40. “And I can see my children doing the same — they might say, ‘Oh, there’s Mama,’ but it’s not exciting for them.”
“What’s exciting for them is when I can pick them up from school and take them swimming,” she added.
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Though her girls are accustomed to their parents' careers, Blunt makes sure she isn’t away from Hazel and Violet for more than two weeks at a time.
“Because even though they’re hardy, and they’re used to this strange life, it’s still rough on them when I have to go away,” she says.
In her latest role, Blunt plays Kitty Oppenheimer, the wife ofCillian’s Murphy’s titular physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who famously led the Manhattan Project — the effort to create an atomic bomb during World War II.
“Even now, I see women in their 70s whose whole identity has been caught up in motherhood, and then once that’s done, there’s this sense of, ‘Who am I and how do I reclaim myself?’ " she added.
Blunt said that when it comes to the next generation in general, her “toes curl when people tell me, ‘Mydaughter wants to be an actress,’ " and she wants “to say, ‘Don’t do it!’ " because Hollywood is “a hard industry and it can be very disappointing.”
“A lot of people tell you not to take things personally – but it’s completely personal, especially when you’re being judged on how you look,” she said. “So you just have to endure that side of things.”
The July/August issue ofHarper’s BazaarUK is on sale now.Oppenheimerblasts into theaters July 21.
source: people.com
