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Blunt on 'Smashing Machine': Facing Fear for Deeply Altering Scenes
11 Dec, 2025
Summary
- Blunt describes filming a brutal argument scene that was life-altering for her character.
- She found playing Dawn Staples in 'The Smashing Machine' to be a challenging, almost terrifying experience.
- Blunt shared how Stanley Tucci met her sister and joined the family through her wedding.
Emily Blunt is preparing for a challenging role in the A24 film 'The Smashing Machine,' directed by Benny Safdie. Starring alongside Dwayne Johnson, Blunt plays Dawn Staples, the partner of MMA fighter Mark Kerr. She described a particularly difficult argument scene as being "life-altering" for the characters, admitting that such intense performances are hard to recover from and fill her with dread leading up to filming.
