Emily Blunt: Enter a new leading lady / Cinema

For fairly obvious reasons, most of them to do with rhyming slang, Emily Blunt loathed her surname when she was growing up. “It was like a curse to be called that as a child,” she groans. “Names like ‘Blunt pencil’. And that led on to the unimaginable - or the imaginable - as I got older.”

The surname teasing eased off once Blunt left school. But then, just as she was launching herself into a career as an actress, the singer James Blunt released the single You’re Beautiful and people kept asking her for concert tickets to see her brother perform live. She rolls her eyes. “I’m like, ‘He’s absolutely not my brother’.”

Over the last few years, Emily Blunt has been markedly more successful at making her name her own. After small parts on stage and television, her breakthrough...

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