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The 35-year-old actress was initially reluctant to star in A Quiet Place.
Speaking on The Graham Norton Show last night Blunt said: “I actually didn't want to do it to begin with.
“I’d just had our second baby and I'd done Mary Poppins so was in a state of joy.”
“But when I read the script, I really wanted to do it.”
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Blunt continued: “John had already approached another actress – a good friend of mine – so I told him he had to ring her and sack her! Luckily we are still friends.”
Norton asked if Krasinski was nervous about working with his A-list wife.
He joked: “I was terrified, I'd never been on a set when she was working. I'd heard she was a diva.”
Asked about the importance of her off-screen relationship with Krasinski not “overshadowing” the movie, she said: “That was my main concern. And it’s partly why I recommended a friend of mine at first.”
A Quiet Place is a horror film which follows a family of four trying to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
The film has been met with critical acclaim and so far has 97% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
The critical consensus reads: “A Quiet Place artfully plays on elemental fears with a ruthlessly intelligent creature feature that's as original as it is scary – and establishes director John Krasinski as a rising talent.”
A Quiet Place is out now.