Emily Blunt has opened up on her history of on-screen kisses, admitting that some of them made her want to throw up.
The actor, who is currently starring in the action comedy The Fall Guy alongside Ryan Gosling, was being interviewed by Howard Stern on Sirius 100 XM, when she was asked whether there had been scenes where she was especially uncomfortable kissing a co-star.
“I have had chemistry with people who…I have not had a good time working with them,” she said. “I wouldn’t say it’s sort of extreme loathing, but I have definitely not enjoyed some of it.”
When asked directly if she had ever wanted to throw up in a kissing scene, she replied: “Absolutely, absolutely.”
She was quick to clarify that it did not apply to some of her more favourite co-stars, including Tom Cruise, Cillian Murphy, Dwayne Johnson, Robert Downey Jr and Matt Damon.
“Sometimes it’s a strange thing,” she said about the concept of on-screen chemistry. “Sometimes you could have a rapport that’s really effortless, but it doesn’t translate on screen.
“Chemistry is this strange thing. It’s an ethereal thing that you can’t really bottle up and buy or sell. It’s like there or it’s not. It’s just easier when you have a natural rapport with someone.”
She was also clear that her relationship with Gosling is very positive, saying that she is “very lucky to be friends with a gem of a person like him”.
Last week, Blunt revealed the compliment that Taylor Swift gave to her nine-year-old daughter.
“She was so nice to my kids,” she explained. “My oldest kid has just cut all of her hair off, this very short haircut that she was very self-conscious about. And Taylor Swift, goes, ‘God, look at you, you’re just this Sixties beatnik cool kid. I love your style’.”
“I thought my child was going to faint,” but called the gesture “the best thing anyone’s done for my child.”
It followed Blunt’s appearance on Saturday Night Live last month, where she and Gosling performed a duet of Swift’s ballad ‘All Too Well’. The performance saw the pair seem to draw a line under their respective roles in summer blockbusters Oppenheimer and Barbie.
“You know, when you play a character that hard, that long, just letting go feels like a breakup and for processing a breakup, there’s really only one thing that can help – the music of the great Taylor Swift,” said Gosling.
In a four-star review of The Fall Guy, which features the aforementioned Swift song on its soundtrack, NME described it as “a delight from start to finish, thanks to a sparkling script, thrilling action sequences and to-die-for comic chemistry between the two leads.”