Emily Blunt says her Fall Guy character is loosely based on Barbie director Greta Gerwig
Mar. 22, 2024Exclusive: Emily Blunt talks the inspiration behind her Fall Guy director character
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In upcoming action comedy The Fall Guy, Emily Blunt plays a director named Jody Moreno, whose leading man has gone missing. Enter Ryan Gosling’s stunt performer, Colt Seavers, to try and find him – the catch is, Colt just so happens to be Jody’s ex.
“Emily’s role was a make-up artist when we sold it, and we converted it to first-time directing right before we gave her a very rough draft,” Kelly McCormick, producing partner and wife of director David Leitch,tellsTotal Film in our new issueout on Thursday March 28, which features The Fall Guy on the cover. “It made it feel like [the character] had more pressure on her.”
Blunt also says that the character is loosely inspired byBarbiedirector Greta Gerwig. “With the warmth and the charm, I guess there’s a little Greta in there,” she says. “She was a mix of a few other people I’d met and pulled from.”
The Fall Guy is released on May 2. And you can read more about it and a whole lot else besides in the new issue of Total Film when it hits shelves and digital newsstands on Thursday, March 28.
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I’m the Editor at Total Film magazine, overseeing the running of the mag, and generally obsessing over all things Nolan, Kubrick and Pixar. Over the past decade I’ve worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+, and you can often hear me nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.
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