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SILENT FRIGHT

I FEEL LIKE MARY POPPINS IS VERY chatty…” SFX has just asked Emily Blunt who, out of all her movie characters, would fare worst in A Quiet Place Part II, in which even the slightest noise triggers the gigantic, pulsating eardrums of alien invaders who hunt using sound location.

“And The Devil Wears Prada character [Emily Charlton] would be useless in that environment,” she adds.

What would Miranda Priestly’s uptight personal assistant even wear in an apocalypse, one wonders?

“Well, exactly!” muses Blunt, with her trademark deadpan humour. “I don’t think she’d do well with bare feet. I think between the two of them they’d be dead, for sure!”

In a scene straight out of that fashion world flick, we meet the hilarious Blunt and her husband of 10 years, director John Krasinski, in a plush New York hotel suite, skyline gleaming behind them. After the monstrously successful 2018 original

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