Emily Blunt names a “Mary Poppins Returns” scene as the scariest stunt she's ever done
"The Fall Guy" star opened up about the most terrified she's ever been on a set
Turns out that making Mary Poppins Returns was not practically perfect in every way for Emily Blunt.
The actress, who is currently starring in The Fall Guy opposite Ryan Gosling, revealed on The Howard Stern Show that the Disney film was responsible for her scariest day on set ever. And it was actually filming the scene where Mary first arrives, descending from the clouds with a kite.
"It was described in the script like she starts in the clouds and she descends from the clouds, and I really started in the clouds," Blunt said. "I thought I was okay with heights until they started winching me up there. They wanted to do it as a oner, and by a oner, I mean, you know, all in one shot, you start way up high small as a pin and then I walk into my close-up once I land. That was the idea."
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Emily Blunt in 'Mary Poppins Returns'Blunt signed off on the idea because she loved the picture painted by director Rob Marshall. But once she was in the air, she regretted her choices.
"It sounded like a great shot," she explained. "I got seduced. I was like, 'That's an amazing shot.' But they start with winching you up and you get like 20 feet and you're like, 'Woo, that's quite high,' and then you keep going up and suddenly you're at like 65 feet in the air."
"It's f---ing scary," she continued. "[Rob Marshall] was playing the music to get me in the zone, blaring it out of the speakers, this beautiful score. I thought I was going to pee my pants. I was so scared and if I looked down, Lin-Manuel [Miranda] was tiny, which was scary. If I looked straight out, I was taller than the trees. So I just waited for 'action' and was just hanging staring up because then I had no point of reference. I did three takes, and then I felt my tolerance snap in half, and I went, 'That's it, I'm done. I will not go up there again.'"
Though Blunt did the Poppins scene herself, her current project, The Fall Guy, is an ode to the unseen heroes of Hollywood — the stunt double. In it, she portrays a director, Jody Moreno, who gets to lead a stunt crew through a series of sequences far more intense than her Mary Poppins Returns experience.
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