![]() ![]() Simmering in a pinny was a fate shared by “a lot of women with great minds – that brilliant brain gone to waste at the ironing board. But Kitty was a terrible mother and she wasn’t a very good housewife – and had no desire to be one.” “It was a time where contortions were happening to women, as they tried to kind of mould themselves into perfect housewives. ![]() “There was something flighty and wild and nonconformist about her,” says Blunt. “Those big, blue eyes incredibly alive to what was going on.” She had just turned 11. He can still picture her “ready, crouching in the wings”, before a crowd scene in Twelfth Night. Even then, “she had a mission, a focus and a fortitude” rare among adults, let alone children. “A really mature performance for one so young.” When the curtain fell, he was mobbed by people asking why he hadn’t cast her in the first place. “It was very, very impressive,” says Alfred Bradley, now retired, but still in touch with his former pupil. If it’s great, you can’t stop thinking about it.” Such was the case seeing her little sister smash Brecht in the gym that night. When she reads manuscripts, she says: “If I’m thinking: ‘Is it good?’ it’s not good. “Em had been watching the whole time in rehearsal, not gossiping like everyone else.”įelicity, 17 months her senior, is a literary agent. Could she learn The Caucasian Chalk Circle overnight? No need! “She was already off-book,” says her sister, Felicity Blunt. When Emily Blunt was 13, she was in the chorus of the school play.
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