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Emily Blunt has landed a lot of fan-favorite roles and worked with a multiplicity of filmmakers and screenwriters throughout her career, with Taylor Sheridan being one of them since the pair worked onSicariotogether. In fact, her iconic role of Kate Macer in this very movie was one that the studios wanted for a male actor.
Fortunately for her, all of this ended up in her favor in more than one way. For one, Blunt managed to score the role in the $85 million movie instead of letting herself get replaced by a male actor. For another, after getting cast in the role, she perfectly laid down her one demand on how she was going to play her character in that macho world which was effectively taken care of by the director.
Emily Blunt Had the Most Reasonable Demand forSicario
InSicario, the main protagonist is a female, Kate Macer, brought perfectly to life byEmily Blunt. As seen in the film, Blunt’s character is, incredibly, feminine enough despite existing as an FBI Agent in a macho world. And, truly enough, Blunt pulled this off so efficiently that instead of looming like a contrasting difference, her character perfectly fits in as the most integral part of the movie.
Blunt inSicario.| Credit: Lionsgate Films.Moreover, it was all thanks to the understanding between her and filmmakerDenis Villeneuve. According to what theOppenheimeractress herself shared in an interview with Vulture, what she needed to add the perfect balance to her character was“a director who’s going to support your creation of a character,”and Villeneuve was“so empowering in that sense.”
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As Blunt continued candidly withVulture:
I told him in the beginning, ‘She can’t be in this masculine world trying to act like a man.’ The appeal of playing the part was that in the beginning, you have a character who’s highly skilled but then disintegrates at an accelerated rate over the course of three days. It had to be a delicate balance.
A still from the movie. | Credit: Lionsgate Films.As for what made her realizethis delicate balanceand how she was going to pull it into effect? Well, as Blunt confessed during the same interview:
I based her on one of the FBI agents I met while doing research. She was really shy, but also an incredibly resilient, steely individual.
Effortlessly enough,The Fall Guyactress did her total research before jumping into this iconic role inTaylor Sheridan‘s movie and unarguably ended up doing an amazing job at it, only further proving that she was actually the perfect choice for the role instead of how the studios wanted it to play out, i.e. with a male character in the lead instead.
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Studios Wanted Emily Blunt’s Character to be a Male
Sure enough, Blunt did an excellent job in bringing that perfect balance of strong-and-determined-but-vulnerable aspects to her character. However, the studios originally felt it would be better if a male actor led the masterpiece instead of Blunt’s female protagonist.
In fact, as the interviewer at Vice said while interviewingBenicio del Toro,“The studio people wanted a guy and they’d be like, ‘We’d give you more money if it was a dude.'”
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Echoing her statement, even del Toro admitted, saying (viaVice/YouTube):
At some point, the producers took it to this other company and they go, they said that, which would have made a big mistake because I think the movie is strong because of that.
Of course, Blunt was indeed one of the most driving and powerful forces in that movie, which can be further proven by how the sequel (althoughSheridan wouldn’t call it that),Sicario: Day of the Soldado, couldn’t perform better than the first film because it lacked this very feminine-but-bold force that Blunt brought to the table as Kate.
You can streamSicarioon Prime Video.
Mahin Sultan
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Mahin Sultan is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, where she brings a fresh perspective to entertainment news. Having been in the field for over 3 years now, she has already written more than 2,000 articles across a variety of niches, from entertainment to health and fashion. This diverse experience has allowed her to quickly build a solid foundation and a deep understanding of the industry.
