Although Emily Blunt came close to being cast in two different Marvel superhero movies, it?s not until later this year that she gets her first action-type role in Rian Johnson?s time travel thriller Looper. But her turn as a gun-toting farm girl is just the beginning for Blunt: She?s currently in intense training to play a lethal soldier in Doug Liman?s futuristic sci-fi All You Need Is Kill, opposite Tom Cruise.
Set against the backdrop of an alien war, All You Need Is Kill (based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka and Yoshitoshi Abe?s Japanese graphic novel) revolves around a soldier who dies in battle only to wake up to re-live the same day over and over again ? think Groundhog Day with aliens and Tom Cruise. Blunt will play Valkryie One, a highly-decorated special forces fighter who Cruise encounters while trapped in his time loop.
Blunt is currently training stateside before going to London to learn fight choreography for a month ahead of an October filming date. Speaking with Movieline over the weekend at Comic-Con, where she, Johnson, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt presented footage from Looper, Blunt described her regimen for what she describes as ?the most ass-kicking role I?ll probably do.?
?I basically do ten workouts a week,? she said. ?Two a day, five days a week ? it?s hell! And I?ve cut out drinking wine, which is really sad! That?s the thing I miss most.?
?But I?m going to build these guns out,? she added, flexing her biceps. ?They?re coming, right? I?m like that in the mirror. I?m just flexing over and over, and John [Krasinski]?s like, ?Holy shit!??
Why action, and why now? ?Really, it?s about timing and about the right part, the right moment and…
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