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Emily Blunt is pulling back the curtain on what it was like to work with Tom Cruise on “Edge of Tomorrow.”

In a new episode of the “SmartLess” podcast that premiered Dec. 5 on Wondery and will be available Monday on other streaming platforms, Blunt recalled Cruise telling her to “stop being such a p—” behind the scenes of their 2014 action film .

According to Entertainment Weekly , the “Devil Wears Prada” and “A Quiet Place” actor recounted her experience working on “Edge of Tomorrow” to “SmartLess” co-hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett. She said that the sci-fi movie’s futuristic, mechanical costumes weighed about 85 pounds, which pushed her to her breaking point one day on set.

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“It was so heavy,” she said, according to Entertainment Weekly.

“The first time I put it on I just started to cry in front of Tom, and he didn’t know what to do. He just stared at me. I was like, ‘Tom, I’m not sure how I’m going to get through this shoot,’ and just started to cry. I said, ‘I’m just feeling a bit panicky about the whole shoot.’ He just stared at me for a long time, not knowing what to do, and he goes, ‘Come on, stop being such a p—, OK?’”

Blunt said she laughed off the remark and was able to make it through the shoot with Cruise. Though she admitted the “training was intense” and that it “would’ve been great” if the effects department had just tricked out the costumes using CGI.

“We wanted to do it practically and in a tactile way,” she said. “When you hear the word ‘tactile,’ you think that sounds nice and cozy. There was nothing cozy about wearing these suits.”

A representative for Cruise did not immediately respond Sunday to The Times’ request for comment.

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"Edge of Tomorrow" is less of a time travel movie than an experience movie; that statement might not make sense now, but it probably will after you've seen it. Based on Hiroshi Sikurazaka's novel "All You Need is Kill", it's a true science fiction film, highly conceptual, set during the aftermath of an alien invasion. Maybe "extra-dimensional being invasion" is more accurate. The fierce, octopod-looking beasties known as Mimics are controlled hive-mind style by a creature that seems able to peer through time, or rupture it, or something. When the tale begins, we don't have exact answers about the enemy's powers (that's for our intrepid heroes to find out), but we have a solid hunch that it can see possible futures through the eyes of specific humans, then treat them as, essentially, video game characters, following their progress through the nasty "adventure" of the war, and making note of their tactical maneuvers, the better to ensure our collective extermination. 

Tom Cruise , who seems to be spending his fifties saving humanity, plays Major William Cage, an Army public relations officer. Cage is a surprising choice for the role of hero. He's never seen combat yet inexplicably finds himself thrown into the middle of a ferocious battle that will decide the outcome of the war. The film begins with Cage en route to European command headquarters in London, waking up in the belly of a transport chopper. The rest of the movie may not be his dream per se, but at various points it sure feels as though it is. The world is wracked by war. Millions have died. Whole cities have been reduced to ash heaps. The landscapes evoke color newsreel footage from World War II, and much of the combat seems lifted from that era as well. 

When Cage meets the general in charge of that part of the world's forces, he's told he's being sent right into this movie's version of D-Day and is to report for duty immediately. No amount of protest by Cage can halt this assignment, and soon after he joins his unit and learns the rudiments of wearing combat armor (this is one of those science fiction films in which soldiers wear clumping bionic suits festooned with machine guns and other weapons) he dies on the battlefield. Then he wakes up and starts all over. Then he dies again and starts over again. He always knows he's been here before, that he met this person, said that thing, did that thing, made a wrong choice and died. Nobody else does, though. They're oblivious to the way in which Cage, like "Slaughterhouse Five" hero Billy Pilgrim, has come unstuck in time. 

Cage's only allies are a scientist ( Noah Taylor ) who believes the creatures are beating humanity through their mastery of time, and Rita Vrataski ( Emily Blunt ), an Audie Murphy or Sgt. York type who's great for armed forces morale in addition to being an exceptionally gifted killer. Rita has experienced the same temporal dislocation that Cage is now experiencing, but at a certain point it stopped. She recognizes his maddening condition but can no longer share in it. She can, however, offer guidance (and a key bit of information that defines his predicament), and speed up the learning curve by shooting him in the head whenever it becomes obvious that they're going down a wrong road that'll lead to the same fatal outcome. 

Although the film's advertising would never dare suggest such a thing, for fear of driving off viewers who just want the bang bang-boom boom, Cage is a complex and demanding role for any actor. It is especially right for Cruise, in that Cage starts out as a Jerry Maguire-type who'll say or do anything to preserve his comfort, then learns through hard (lethal) experience how to be a good soldier and a good man. He changes as the story tells and retells and retells itself. By the end he's nearly unrecognizable from the man we met in the opening. 

Cruise is hugely appealing here, not just in the early scenes opposite Gleeson in which he's in Tony Curtis mode—he's always fantastic playing a smooth-talking manipulator who's sweating on the inside—but later, where he exhibits the sort of rock-solid super-competence and unforced decency that Randolph Scott brought to Budd Boetticher's westerns. He was always likable, sometimes perfect in the right role, but age has deepened him by bringing out his vulnerability. There's an existential terror in his eyes that's disturbing in a good way, and there are points in which "Edge of Tomorrow" seems to simultaneously be about what it's about while also being about the predicament of a real actor trying to stay relevant in a Hollywood universe that's addicted to computer generated monsters, robots and explosions. Cruise deserves some sort of acting award for the array of yelps and gasps he summons as he's killed by a Mimic or shot in the head by Blunt and then rebooted into another version of the story.

The rest of the cast has less to do because this is Tom Cruise's movie through-and-through, but they're all given moments of humor, terror or simple eccentricity. Taylor often gets cast as brilliant but haunted or ostracized geniuses, and he's effective in another of those roles here. Gleeson, as is so often the case, invests a rather stock character with such humanity that when the character's motivations and responses change, you get the sense that it's because the general is a good and smart man and not because he's just doing what the script needs him to do. Emily Blunt is unexpectedly convincing as a fearless and elegant super-soldier, and of course a magnificent camera subject as well. Director Doug Liman is so enamored with the introductory shot of her rising up off the floor of a combat training facility in a sort of downward facing dog yoga pose that he repeats it many times. The film's only egregious flaw is its attempt to superimpose a love story onto Cruse and Blunt's relationship, which seems more comfortable as a "Let's express our adoration for each other by killing the enemy" kind of thing. 

There's no end to the number of films and novels and other sources to which "Edge of Tomorrow" can be likened. " Groundhog Day " seems to be everyone's reflexive comparison point, but Liman's elaborately choreographed tracking shots and unglamorously visualized European hellscapes evoke " Children of Men ," the creatures themselves have a touch of the Sentinels from the "Matrix" films, and the monsters-vs.-infantry scenes will remind you of James Cameron's " Aliens " and its literary predecessor " Starship Troopers ." ( Bill Paxton , one of the stars of "Aliens," plays Cage's drill sergeant, a mustachioed Kentucky hard-ass with an amusingly sour sense of humor.)   It's also an exceptionally brutal film, so bone-and-skull-crushingly violent and fairy-tale frightening that its PG-13 rating is stupefying. Parents should avoid taking young children who'll be both confused by the fractured narrative and terrified of the Mimics, nightmare creatures that look like razor-tentacled squid and roll across the landscapes like tumbleweeds.

In all, though, "Edge of Tomorrow" is its own thing. One of its most fascinating qualities is its keen judgement of the audience's learning curve. The early sections of the film repeat scenes and dialogue until you get used to the idea of the story as a video game or movie script, but just when you start to think, "Yes, I get it, let's move on," the film has in fact moved on and is now leaving things out because they're not necessary. By the end of the movie the script—which is credited to Christopher McQuarrie and Jez and John Henry Butterworth—has gotten to the point where it's tactically withholding information and waiting for us to figure things out on our own. It repeats key images and lines near the end as well, but always for good reason. When you see the familiar material again you feel different about it, because its meaning has changed. The movie has an organic intelligence and a sense that it, too, exists outside of linear time. It seems to be creating itself as you watch it.  

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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

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Emily blunt says she is “so ready” for an ‘edge of tomorrow’ sequel with tom cruise.

During a recent interview, the actress also explains why she doesn't consider herself a movie star.

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Emily Blunt is all for teaming with Tom Cruise again for an Edge of Tomorrow sequel.

While appearing on a recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the actress said she wishes there could be another film and revealed that she has actually read a script for one before.

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The actress added that she is “so ready” for a sequel and clarified that she is “not the impediment, I promise.”

Earlier during the interview, Blunt also opened up about why she doesn’t consider herself a movie star, even though she has starred in dozens of films throughout her career.

When asked about the difference between being called an actor or a movie star, the actress said, “I think most people would want to consider themselves an actor [first].”

As for herself, when Horowitz asked if she thinks she could be both, Blunt quickly responded, “No, gross. I don’t.”

“I just think, to me, a movie star sounds sort of too separate of what we kind of started out doing and why we love it and why I love it,” she added.

The Oppenheimer star went on to explain how she feels there can’t be a movie star without recognizing one’s talents as an actor first, using “one of the first actors who made such an impact on” her growing up as an example.

“ Julia Roberts , who is, you know, was defined as a movie star,” Blunt said. “But you can’t forget her incalculable abilities as an actor and how incredible she was in Pretty Woman , that the reason she’s a movie star is because she kidnaps you and pulls you in o this movie because of her phenomenal talents and her charm and her charisma.”

As for her most recent co-stars in Christopher Nolan’s latest film, which is currently playing in theaters, Blunt quipped that Cillian Murphy “would be sort of horrified to be called the movie star.”

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T he movie begins with world news services — the BBC, Sky News — reporting the invasion and near conquest of Europe by extraterrestrial entities. Even CNN interrupts its 24/7 coverage of that Malaysian plane, giving Wolf Blitzer a chance to report an actual breaking story. And at the end (no spoiler alert necessary), we learn that “Russian and Chinese troops are moving across Western Europe without resistance.” That’s supposed to be the good news.

So we’re in the movies’ favorite nightmare fantasyland, Armageddon — or, through most of Edge of Tomorrow , a replay of the D-Day invasion, but with Allied forces deploying from London to fight not the Nazis but the Mimics. Described as “a spectacularly evolved, world-conquering organism” and looking like jellyfish or octopuses with limbs resembling Rastafarian locks, these alien beings take on the properties of the creatures they have encountered and assimilated. With tremendous speed and agility, they pop out of nowhere and zap , you’re dead — you and virtually all the other soldiers you hit the beach with. The Mimics can achieve this because they’ve been through this battle many times before and “an enemy that knows the future can’t lose.”

(READ: When Tom Cruise went nuts on Oprah )

The only way to survive, and perhaps save the mission, is to catch a dose of the Mimics’ strength. You die on the battlefield, and then are instantly reborn back at the Heathrow training base, where you sharpen your warrior skills while memorizing every detail of the Mimics’ movements. Landing for the second or hundredth time on the beach, at the exact same future time, you relive your fatal nightmare, but with crucial tweaks: now you can anticipate the enemy’s feints and score some kills. Guiding you is a luscious, superefficient soldier, Rita Vrataski — the Angel of Verdun, or the Full Metal Bitch — though each time you meet her, she doesn’t know who you are.

Tom Cruise is the Groundhog Day grunt, and Emily Blunt the Angel Bitch, in Edge of Tomorrow , a furiously time-looping joy ride and the smartest action film of the early summer season. The movie’s only static element is its title, which oddly suggests a mashup of TV soap operas. Director Doug Liman and screenwriters Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth could have borrowed a name from any number of James Bond films — You Only Live Twice , Live and Let Die , Tomorrow Never Dies , Die Another Day — to describe its hero’s curse and gift. Or they could have kept the title of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s 2004 source novel: All You Need Is Kill . (It sounds exactly as cool in the original Japanese: O ru Yu N i do Izu Kiru. )

In Steven Spielberg’s 2005 War of the Worlds remake, Cruise was an ordinary dad trying to outrun an alien takeover. In last year’s Oblivion , he was a career soldier battling his own clone. As Major William Cage in Edge of Tomorrow , he is, at first, the anti-Tom. A former ad agency spin doctor, Cage joined the service to create promos that would entice civilians into deadly combat. He’s the Don Draper of World War III.

“I do this to avoid doing that,” he tells the hardass General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson). “Can’t stand the sight of blood. Not so much as a paper cut.” Unlike the gung-ho Maverick in Top Gun , which launched Cruise to stardom 28 years ago, Cage is spoiling not to fight.

(READ: Tom Cruise fights Tom Cruise in Oblivion )

Brigham stockades the reluctant warrior and attaches him to a squad of soldiers due to be dropped on the beach tomorrow. And now he’s a private with a coward’s rep, to be bullied by his master sergeant (Bill Paxton) and his gruff new mates. (Cruise looks great at 51 — he could be a fit 40. Still, wouldn’t his fellow soldiers wonder why a guy approaching middle age has the army’s lowest rank? Answer: No, because it’s a movie! ) With precious little training in weapons operation and maneuvering his bulky robot uniform, Cage lands on the beach and sees his squad promptly wiped out. In one weirdly funny image, a cargo plane drops to the earth, smashing one soldier. This is the Saving Private Ryan beach invasion, played a second time as tragic farce.

Yet on Spielberg’s Omaha Beach, there was no fabulous babe, no female Audie Murphy for an out-of-place, out-of-time soldier to bond with. Rita used to be “in the loop” with the Mimics, but not now: “I had it and I lost it.” But when she realizes that Cage has somehow got on the enemy’s wavelength — a fact she must face anew each time she sees him, since he’s come back from the future — she trains him at Heathrow and fights bravely with him. As the periods of their endlessly repeated first meeting lengthen, they escape the beach for a deserted farmhouse; then the Thames River, infested with swimming Mimics; and finally Paris in search of the Omega Mimic that directs all the others.

(READ: Richard Schickel on Saving Private Ryan )

For most of the film’s two hours, Liman keeps the plot plates spinning with the suave dexterity he showed in Swingers , Go , The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith . (Liman had a down phase with Jumper and Fair Game , but all his pictures have addressed the lies that are taken as truth and the mystery of even a hero’s personality.) Photographed by Dion Beebe in the desaturated khaki colors of Saving Private Ryan and World War Z , the movie figures its viewers are bright enough to grab the premise and parlays that belief into audience exhilaration. Each succeeding visit to Heathrow or the beach is shorter, sometimes only by a second; the rhythm accelerates vertiginously, the tension tautens. Only toward the climax, when the live-die-repeat cycle is abandoned, does Edge of Tomorrow go logy. But it’s two-thirds of a sensational ride — one you can ride over and over without buying additional tickets.

Revealing the timidity of the X-Men: Days of Future Past premise — one man going back in time to connect with a younger version of an old friend — Edge of Tomorrow is also a metaphor for moviemaking: the film is all about rehearsal, about living and learning (or dying and learning) and gradually turning mistakes into triumphs. Cage has not only read the “script” of the Mimics’ war but has infused it into his central nervous system. In that sense, it’s a demonstration of the 10,000-hours-of-practice theory popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers . Keep doing something forever and maybe you’ll get it right.

(READ: Lev Grossman on Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers )

In a complicated scenario with just four prominent roles (Cruise, Blunt, Paxton and Gleeson), the two leading players must radiate star quality and sex appeal. Solemn and toned to the max, Blunt proves a strong partner for an actor who can still earn the sobriquet Tom Terrific. More often than most Hollywood hunks, Cruise steps outside his comfort zone to embrace weird characters — in Magnolia , Lions for Lambs , Tropic Thunder and Rock of Ages. But it’s also cool to see him bend the familiar action-fantasy format and, as he does here, stick the landing.

An aging star can’t push envelopes forever. According to the Internet Movie Database, Cruise is becoming his own Cage, planning to star in the sequels Mission: Impossible 5 , Top Gun 2 and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back . Twist that last title and you have a suitable name for his current, very savory film: Always Go Back .

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Emily Blunt says Tom Cruise told her to 'stop being such a p---y' while filming Edge of Tomorrow

"I did laugh and we got through it but the training was intense," the actress said.

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Emily Blunt is opening up about the grueling production of the 2014 sci-fi action film Edge of Tomorrow and a very direct comment offered to her by costar Tom Cruise .

The actress recalled the taxing stunts and costumes required of her while on Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett's Wondery podcast SmartLess , set to premiere to a wider audience on Monday, revealing that Cruise told her to "stop being such a p---y" after she expressed some concerns about a shoot.

The two played soldiers fighting a war against aliens in the film that also starred Bill Paxton and Brendan Gleeson, which required the wear of enormous robotic suits. The costume "would've been great if we had CGI'd them, but we wanted to do it practically and in a tactile way," Blunt said. "When you hear the word 'tactile,' you think that sounds nice and cozy. There was nothing cozy about wearing these suits."

Blunt's suit weighed about 85 pounds. "It was so heavy," she said. "The first time I put it on I just started to cry in front of Tom and he didn't know what to do. He just stared at me. I was like, 'Tom, I'm not sure how I'm going to get through this shoot,' and just started to cry. I said, 'I'm just feeling a bit panicky about the whole shoot.' He just stared at me for a long time, not knowing what to do, and he goes, 'Come on, stop being such a p---y, okay?'"

Blunt laughed off the comment and the two were able to get through the shoot, she said, but "the training was intense." The actress said she injured herself during a stunt. "I did this aerial stunt on wires and I was supposed to land on my shoulder, and I landed on my face," she recalled.

A sequel to the film was announced in 2019 with Blunt and Cruise reported to reprise their roles, but Blunt told EW last year that she wasn't quite sure where it stood — but said she did read a script for it at some point. "That was an amazing script, but I just don't know what the future holds for it," she said. "I did read a script that was in really great shape, but it's just a matter of if that can even happen now. I don't have the straight answer on that one."

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Emily Blunt Says Tom Cruise Was 'Such a Doll to Me' on Edge of Tomorrow Set: 'I Loved Him'

Emily Blunt said 2014's science-fiction action movie 'Edge of Tomorrow' was "the hardest thing physically I will ever do in my life"

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Emily Blunt is singing Tom Cruise 's praises.

On Thursday, Blunt, 40, appeared at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles for a moderated conversation with filmmaker Rob Marshall, whom Blunt has worked with on 2014's Into the Woods and 2018's Mary Poppins Returns .

At one point during the wide-ranging conversation, Marshall turned Blunt's attention to her time working with Cruise, 61, on  Edge of Tomorrow. The two costarred in the 2014 science-fiction action movie as a pair of soldiers involved in a war between humanity and an alien race in the near future who discover that Cruise's character has gained the ability to relive moments in time.

As Blunt spoke about getting in shape for the physically intense role, she noted that action movie icon Cruise helps "tighten the screws on everyone when it comes to what you think you're capable of."

"And because he can do everything and wants to do everything, it makes you want to meet him where he is at," she shared, adding, "He's so inspiring. Such a doll to me."

"He is so gracious. So cute. Oh, so cute. I loved him. Yeah. He was amazing," Blunt continued. She also complimented Cruise for ensuring she was involved with much of the film's production.

"We were sort of writing the third act as we went," she said. "And again, sometimes the best movies, they're born out of that chaos. And I think I thought it was going to be sort of boys club and [Cruise] brought me into every script meeting, every single decision."

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Blunt has said in recent months that she is interested in revisiting the project for a sequel.

“There was [a sequel script] that [filmmaker Doug Liman] kind of slithered over to me,” she said on an August episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I mean, I would love to make it a reality but I just don’t know when or how. And how many Mission: Impossibles does [Cruise] need?

"Wasn't he brilliant as the cowardly hero? Oh, incredible. I couldn't bare it, I adored him," she added of Cruise at the time. "He was the best. I'm so ready [for a sequel.] I'm not the impediment, I promise."

While there are no known plans to make an Edge of Tomorrow sequel, Cruise and filmmaker Liman intend to film a movie together that would see Cruise shoot scenes at the International Space Station in outer space . Cruise shared a brief update on the film in July, telling Variety that he and Liman have " been working on it diligently ."

“We’ll see where we go," he said at the time.

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Emily Blunt Hilariously Explained How Edge Of Tomorrow And Tom Cruise Still Cause Her Back Pain

Despite the strain it might put on her back, Emily Blunt is eager and ready to reprise the action movie role.

Edge of Tomorrow is one of the best action movies that's often overlooked outside of dedicated film enthusiast circles. For years, fans have been buzzing about a potential sequel, and fanning the hype Emily Blunt openly expressed her desire to be part of that sequel, despite sharing a humorous story about how working on the original film with Tom Cruise still results in back pain for her.

Sometimes, acting in stunt-heavy movies can lead to tangible discomfort, as Emily Blunt amusingly revealed on the Happy Sad Confused Podcast in a video shared on host Josh Horowitz's Instagram . Even though she was deep into promoting Oppenheimer alongside its stacked cast , the actress vividly recalled her challenging experiences wearing the hefty mech suit for Edge of Tomorrow . Indeed, the experience seems to have left a physical mark. During the interview, when the host suggested that her memories of the cumbersome exo suit might have faded, much like the trials of pregnancy, the Mary Poppins veteran was quick to set the record straight: 

No, I don't forget. No, my back still tweaks out on me sometimes. You know, I'll like, turn funny in the car, and I'll just be like, 'Tom Cruise!’

This isn't the first instance The Devil Wears Prada star has spoken about the physically demanding costumes in the sci-fi movie. She even recalled a moment when Cruise asked her to "stop being such a pussy" when she broke down on set. Yet, despite the potential for spine discomfort, Emily Blunt remains enthusiastic about reprising her role in an Edge of Tomorrow sequel. She's indicated that she's not the one stalling the much-speculated project . She's even laid eyes on a script! She added:

There was [a script] that Doug kind of slithered over to me… I would love to make it a reality, but I just don’t know when, or how, or how many Mission: Impossibles does he [Tom Cruise] need?

Given that Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part I has not quite lived up to box office expectations , despite being well-liked by viewers, there seems to be a lesser buzz surrounding the film. While we know Part II of the M:I mission is one the way, the idea of a sequel to the 2014 film might not be as far-fetched as previously thought. And, as you can see in the video below, Emily Blunt is more than ready to make it happen.

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Keep an eye on this space for any updates regarding Edge of Tomorrow 2 . In the meantime, fans of Emily Blunt can enjoy her performance, albeit, with far fewer back injuries, in Christopher Nolan's critically lauded Oppenheimer , currently screening in cinemas. For updates on other film releases set for the 2023 movie schedule , keep following CinemaBlend.

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ANAHEIM, Calif. – WWE phenom, movie smackdown champ and "Jungle Cruise"  star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson did not grasp what he was getting into by relentlessly pursuing very British "Mary Poppins Returns" star Emily Blunt to co-lead the Disney action adventure.

When the two disparate movie forces finally met at a Beverly Hills dinner in 2018, the magical sparring began immediately.

"You were more gentlemanly at first," says Blunt, eyeing a concurring Johnson just yards away from the Disneyland Jungle Cruise ride that serves as the movie's inspiration. "But the moment he sat down, I went straight for the jugular."  

The playfully (we're pretty sure) savage barbs and cutting chemistry sizzled when the 6-foot-5 Johnson filmed as Amazon riverboat captain Frank Wolff with the 5-foot-7 Blunt as scientist passenger Lily Houghton in "Jungle Cruise" (in theaters and on Disney+ via Premier Access).

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The zingers still fly today. Even before cameras roll for a USA TODAY interview, the two broadly bicker over Blunt's blanket that is shedding on Johnson's perfect pants.

"Not sure why you're doing this now," Blunt quips to Johnson . "I'm keeping the blanket. Talk about Captain Anal."

"Really, that's how it's going to be?" Johnson retorts. "OK, be ready my friend. Here it comes."

We unleashed the duo for a final wicked voyage revisiting what it took to board their "Jungle Cruise."

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Question: Mr. Rock, as a producer on 'Jungle Cruise,' you made a personal video and sent letters from Disney execs to convince Blunt. Have you ever pursued a co-star like this?

Emily Blunt: It got stalker-ish.

Dwayne Johnson: It was only  borderline stalker-ish. I'm going to get arrested. Chris Hansen is waiting outside. 

Blunt (laughing) : The "Catch a Predator" host? Seriously? But really it was the script. That's all I needed.

Johnson : (Director) Jaume Collet-Serra flew to Brooklyn to hand-deliver the script. And I said to him, show her this video I made. I can be very charming when I want to be. So I said –

Blunt interrupts : Your video didn't do anything. It made me want to run.

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Q: Ms. Blunt, did you really ghost The Rock after that personal entreaty?

Blunt: Everyone says it's ghosting (to Johnson). I'll say now, I was very touched by your lovely video. It was clearly an impassioned plea.

Johnson:  It wasn't really an impassioned plea. It was, 'I admire your work. You and I together onscreen will be phenomenal.'

Blunt: It was begging.

Johnson: I have to say this: She didn't respond, which is fine. She needed to read the script. But what you do, if you're just a human being with a shred of emotion or decency, is respond.

Q: The movie incorporates tour guide pun-filled humor made infamous on the original Jungle Cruise ride. Ms. Blunt, how did you hold back real laughter?

Blunt: It was very easy. I'm not a fan of puns.

Q; There's clearly a lot of improv in the movie. What off-the-rails scene didn't make it?

Blunt: Oh god. It made it in the movie, but the scene where I pull the sword out of him. We shot innuendo after innuendo. There's a whole movie there. We were seeing how far we could push Disney with innuendos. There's now just enough for the adults to laugh and the kids to ask why they're laughing.

Johnson: To Disney's credit, they let us push it just enough.

Blunt: They did truncate it.

Q: What was ultimately cut?

Johnson : Nearly all of it. Think of my dirty sense of humor and (multiply) that by 1,000. Then you get her sense of humor. So you can imagine what that scene looked like.

Q: There's an epic kiss that turns into a group hug with co-star Jack Whitehall (playing Lily's brother MacGregor) – and no doubt an actor playing a computer-generated screen leopard. How awkward was that?

Blunt:  It was two takes .  Jack was horrified. He said it was like watching his parents kiss at that point. It was at the end of the shoot, which made it all the more awkward. And yes, there was a leopard. He was played by a man named Ben, who had very beautiful eyes.

Johnson: It all just reminded me of those crazy times when you get really high at three in the morning. Those are the thoughts you have.

Q: And the scene where Frank gives Lily, trapped underwater, mouth-to-mouth oxygen. How was that to shoot?

Blunt: It's such a beautiful scene. But on the day, we couldn't even see each other. It was very murky in the water. So I could have been kissing anyone. It might have been one of your stunt doubles.

Johnson: It was probably my foot. So that would be my foot in your mouth.

Q: Might you two overcome your differences and get the band back together for "Jungle Cruise 2"?

Blunt : We've had really great conversations; Jaume has some really exciting ideas. We all have such an investment in this; Disney does as well. Hopefully, people want to see the journey continue.

How Emily Blunt Nearly Killed Tom Cruise While Filming A Movie

Tom Cruise is known for performing his own stunts in action movies. But one of his most dangerous moments while filming a movie was because of Emily Blunt. The fact that the "Mary Poppins Returns" star nearly wiped out the "Top Gun" star is nothing short of shocking.

According to Insider, Cruise has climbed some of the world's tallest buildings and pulled off "the most dangerous helicopter chases ever captured on film" while doing stunts for the "Mission: Impossible" franchise. Insider reports that in "Mission: Impossible — Fallout," Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt, jumps 25,000 feet out of a plane before landing in Paris. If Ethan Hunt does it, that means the 58-year-old Cruise does it! The outlet also revealed that in "Mission: Impossible 2," the legendary actor climbed a 2,000-foot cliff in Utah with only a "thin safety rope" to keep him from falling.

Cruise broke his ankle doing a stunt on the film "Mission Impossible: Fallout," he shared on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" (via The Hollywood Reporter ). He wanted to jump across rooftops, with only wires holding him. The injury forced the "Mission Impossible" actor to recover for a few weeks. Cruise also almost drowned while filming "Top Gun," per the New York Post . With all of  his scary stunts for action films , how did Blunt almost kill Cruise while filming a movie? Keep reading to find out!

Emily Blunt's driving in Edge of Tomorrow almost hurt Tom Cruise

Despite all his dangerous stunts for the "Mission: Impossible" films, Tom Cruise was almost killed by Mary Poppins. People reported in 2014 that Emily Blunt almost killed Cruise while they were filming " Edge of Tomorrow ."

During an interview on " Conan ," Blunt said, "He [Cruise] really does everything and wants to do everything even if the stunt guys and the producers are like, 'Please don't do that.'" Blunt said that Cruise inspired her to want to do more stunts, too. Blunt and Cruise were doing a driving scene where she was driving, and the director told her to go faster.

Blunt told Conan, "I tear down this part and Tom's being very quiet behind me, and suddenly, I just hear him under his breath as I approach the right-hand turn, I hear him go, 'Brake, brake, brake. Brake. Brake, Brake, brake... Oh God. And brake, Brake, Brake. Brake it hard! Brake hard!'" Blunt recalled that she didn't brake in time and drove them into a tree ... "I almost killed Tom Cruise.'"

Emily Blunt has serious acting chops as an action hero

According to Screen Rant, Emily Blunt's role in the "Quiet Place" movies set her up perfectly to be an action hero in her latest film, "Jungle Cruise." Screen Rant reported that the "Quiet Place" movies have "heavy action sequences and quick, life-or-death decision making," which prepared Blunt to shine in her latest film with one of the biggest action heroes, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

But it's not just the "Quiet Place" movies that have helped Blunt build her acting chops for action movies. She's been playing action roles since "Looper" in 2012. In 2015, Blunt won raves for her role as a DEA agent in "Sicario," per Meaww. The outlet reported that Blunt was Jon Favreau's first choice to play Black Widow in "Iron Man 2."

Blunt is getting rave reviews for her work in "Jungle Cruise," and her co-star gushed about her during an interview with  The Hollywood Reporter . Johnson said, "Not only is she a huge movie star but, more importantly, really the most empathetic human being I've ever met." Aw!

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Emily Blunt has kissed some princes, but as it turns out, there have also been some frogs.

During an April 30 visit to “The Howard Stern Show,” Blunt, 41, revealed: “I’ve had chemistry with people I haven’t liked.”

Howard Stern, 70, asked her, “Who?” to which she replied: “I’m not gonna tell you.”

“Have you wanted to throw up?” Stern asked Blunt about kissing a fellow actor on-screen.

“Absolutely. Absolutely,” she answered.

She added, “I wouldn’t say it’s sort of extreme loathing, but I’ve definitely not enjoyed some of it.” 

Similar to when “Dune” and “Mission: Impossible” star Rebecca Ferguson talked about a colleague yelling at her, Blunt has dropped this bomb without naming names, but there are clues on who it could be. 

Benicio Del Toro 

Blunt worked with Del Toro, 57, on the 2010 reboot of the classic monster movie “The Wolfman.” Blunt played his love interest, Gwen, and the two shared an on-screen smooch. 

However, one factor that might eliminate the Puerto Rican actor is that Blunt went on to do 2015’s  “Sicario” with him — if he had made her want to “throw up” from a kiss, she might not have worked with him again. 

Matt Damon 

Damon, 53, and Blunt played star-crossed lovers in the 2011 sci-fi romantic action movie, “The Adjustment Bureau.” However, the two have since starred in “Oppenheimer” together, and they have done a slew of friendly interviews where they’ve argued about food .

So, unless Blunt is a great actor who is pretending to be friendly to him in interviews — which is possible, as she is an Oscar-nominated actress — that makes Damon seem unlikely. 

Jason Segel 

Blunt co-starred with Segel, 44, in 2012’s “The Five-Year Engagement,” where they played a couple whose relationship got strained as their engagement dragged on. At the time that the movie came out, Blunt gave an entire interview about it to British Vogue where she didn’t mention Segel, making him a contender.

However, in another interview with Cinemablend , she praised the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star, calling him “a romantic” and the working experience “collaborative.” She also said that certain scenes were “so much fun to shoot.” 

Dwayne Johnson

Blunt worked with Johnson, 52, on 2021’s “Jungle Cruise.” However, during her Howard Stern appearance, Blunt said about Johnson , “I love him,” and said she’s going to work with him again, on a film called “The Smashing Machine.” So, that makes the former wrestler turned actor an unlikely contender. 

Ryan Gosling

Blunt currently stars in “The Fall Guy” opposite Gosling, 43, now in theaters. The two previously demonstrated their on-screen chemistry at the 2024 Oscars, where they traded banter about the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon. 

Blunt told Entertainment Weekly about their on-screen romance, “We wanted to approach it in a really free-wheeling way that felt grounded.” 

Blunt further told Stern on his show, “I love his wife, Eva [Mendes]. I love their children, and I feel like I’m very lucky to be friends with a gem of a person like him.” 

Cillian Murphy 

Blunt starred with this year’s Best Actor Oscar winner Murphy, 47, in “Oppenheimer,” where she played J. Robert Oppenheimer’s long-suffering (and cuckolded) wife. In previous interviews , Blunt has referred to Murphy as “my friend,” and she told Rolling Stone, “I mean, I could talk about Cillian all day long; I absolutely adore him.”

It’s unlikely that Murphy is one of her bad on-screen kisses if she “adores” him. 

Tom Cruise 

Blunt starred with Cruise, 61, in the 2014 sci-fi movie “Edge of Tomorrow.” 

Christopher McQuarrie, one of the movie’s screenwriters, told Film School Rejects that Blunt herself improvised her on-screen kiss with Cruise. 

“As we were shooting that scene at the very end of the movie, we gave up on the kiss. We weren’t even trying to find a place for it anymore,” he said. 

“And right as Emily was saying goodbye to Tom, she just kissed him goodbye in the moment. And it was not in the script. It was not even discussed on the day. Afterwards, she said, ‘It just felt right. It felt right, and I did it.’ “

John Krasinski

Blunt worked with Krasinski, 44, on “A Quiet Place.” But, considering the facts that she’s been married to him since 2010, and they have two kids, something would be very wrong if he was one of her bad kisses. 

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Even With Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, The Fall Guy Failed Where One Underrated 2024 Horror Movie Succeeded at Box Office

T he 2024 summer movie season has seen its fair share of surprises at the box office with highly anticipated projects like The Fall Guy, Challengers , and underrated films like Cocorico and Tarot . However, despite the buzz, not all films managed to witness global success. Take, for example, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s star-studded The Fall Guy, which unfortunately failed to multiply it’s box office collection, despite initial hype.

Meanwhile, the underrated horror flick Tarot  managed to make quite the impression at the global box office. Therefore, comparing the budget of the films and the money spent on marketing, The Fall Guy and Tarot showcased stark contrast in the fortune they made following their global run.

Miserable Box Office Collection of Ryan Gosling’s The Fall Guy

The globally hyped action-thriller directed by David Leitch, The Fall Guy , starring an impressive cast including Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt saw a lackluster $27.7M during its opening weekend via The Numbers . But unfortunately, through the second weekend, the movie began noticing clear indications of its poor reception , as it witnessed a 51% drop to $13.7M.

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Despite creating hype with its marketing and using Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s star power, The Fall Guy failed to earn the expected revenue, resulting in a disappointing box office performance. Narrating the tale of a stunt man who gets drawn into the criminal underworld, although the film began with a solid success, David Leitch’s action-thriller gradually began witnessing a downfall .

Created with an estimated production budget of $140M, The Fall Guy will need to earn somewhere between $310-350M to achieve some level of profit. But as of now, the film has simply managed to cross the 100 million milestone, with its worldwide gross of $104M.

However, looking on the bright side, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt ’s film is aiming to end its theatrical run earning $160M-$180M globally, via The Hollywood Handle .

Underrated Horror Flick Tarot Defied Box Office Expectations

Meanwhile, as The Fall Guy begins to underperform, considering its significant marketing budget and the caliber of its leads; a 2024 horror movie defied expectations. Marking stark contrasting fortunes between the star-studded action-thriller and the underrated horror flick Tarot, the 2024 summer blockbuster offered a startling turn of events.

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On one hand, as David Leitch’s action-thriller failed to leave its mark at the box office, the low-budget horror film Tarot , on the other hand, emerged as a dark horse. Made on a shoestring budget of approximately $8M as per Variety , the movie already made 2.5 times its production by pulling in a whopping $20M globally. Earning around $12M domestically, Tarot’ s success came as a stunning report, especially after its lukewarm reviews.

Nonetheless, witnessing the disparity in The Fall Guy as well as Tarot ‘s box office performance, it can be said with certainty that star power can no longer guarantee success. Unique storylines and well-executed scenes must resonate with audiences to generate a proper box office collection.

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In January, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy jetted to London to connect with the new crown jewel of the studio, Tom Cruise . The three met to identify a film that would kick off their nonexclusive “strategic partnership.” Sources say a raft of possibilities were discussed, including an “Edge of Tomorrow” follow-up and Quentin Tarantino ’s “The Movie Critic,” which currently isn’t set up with a distributor and has Warner Bros., like every major studio, salivating.

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“The strategy at Warner Bros. right now and the reason they made some of these big star deals is they’re basically playing with other people’s money,” says one insider. “They’re shopping for Quentin or Cruise with the notion they can use it as a shiny object that is going to be additive when Zaslav sells the company.”

That time may be approaching. In April, Warner Bros. Discovery can entertain offers to buy, sell or merge with a studio like NBCUniversal, as many on the lot believe will happen. That’s when the two-year lock-up period expires as part of the 2022 deal that united WarnerMedia and Discovery. All of the recent moves, from a first-look pact with Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap to the quest to land Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” follow-up are akin to painting a house before it hits the market.

And this is one splashy renovation. The budget for Todd Phillips’ musical “Joker” sequel — one of De Luca and Abdy’s first green lights — has ballooned to about $200 million, a significant bump from the $60 million cost of the first film. Sources say Joaquin Phoenix is getting $20 million to reprise his role as the clown prince of crime, while Lady Gaga is taking home about $12 million to play Harley Quinn. “Joker” took in more than $1 billion, but musicals are tricky. Case in point: Warners lost $40 million on last year’s “The Color Purple,” according to sources. Though that one can be blamed on the previous regime.

Some argue that spending big is essential when releasing movies in theaters.

“There’s only so much top talent in Hollywood, and it’s very competitive and stretched thin because a lot of talent have deals in streaming,” says Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations. “If theatrical is going to work, you need the A-lister like Tom and Leo, and Warner Bros. is spending what they need to spend to keep this talent.”

But executives across town believe Warners’ math sometimes doesn’t add up, with the studio decried as fiscally irresponsible. The Anderson film, for instance, was greenlit with a $115 million budget, according to sources. Underscoring the gamble, none of the director’s movies has crossed $80 million at the box office. His latest, 2021’s “Licorice Pizza,” made $33 million worldwide. Even with Cruise’s star power, “Magnolia” only mustered $48.5 million. (It was De Luca, then a New Line exec, who convinced Cruise to play “Magnolia’s” misogynistic self-help guru.) The pair are said to be less pumped about another auteur’s latest: Bong Joon Ho ’s “Mickey 17.” In January, Warner Bros. pulled the $150 million Robert Pattinson sci-fi starrer from its schedule and then moved it to 2025. A Warner rep insists: “There is, of course, enthusiasm for it.”

As merger mania draws near, De Luca and Abdy seem unwilling to push back on talent asks. But apparently they did just that during the Coogler-Jordan negotiations. The director and star wanted 25% of first-dollar gross to split and two guaranteed theatrical release slots for future films. Both deal points were nixed.

Despite the pressure to acquiesce to demands from top talent, De Luca and Abdy can still say no.

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‘The Fall Guy’ Picks Itself Up by Passing First Major Global Box Office Milestone

The Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt-led action romance is making a comeback after an underwhelming opening weekend.

The Big Picture

• The Fall Guy showed improvement over its debut weekend but still struggled at the box office due to competition from new releases.
• Director David Leitch's non-franchise movies don't perform as well as his IP-driven work, despite positive reviews.
• The Fall Guy features a star-studded cast including Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hannah Waddingham, Stephanie Hsu, and Winston Duke.

After a lackluster debut last weekend, Universal’s The Fall Guy showed a little fighting spirit at the box office in its sophomore frame. The action-comedy — starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt — generated a little under $14 million domestically and $9.4 million from overseas markets, representing a harsh drop thanks to the new release Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes usurping most of its Premium Large Format and IMAX screens. That being said, The Fall Guy was able to pass its first major global box office milestone this weekend, as it looks to put up a respectable against its reported budget of between $130 million and $150 million.

With just under $50 million domestically and another $54 million from 78 overseas markets, The Fall Guy ’s global box office haul stands at $103 million . This represents another under-performer for director David Leitch , whose non-franchise movies seem to have a more difficult time at the box office than his IP-driven work. After making a name for himself as a stunt coordinator and performer, Leitch broke out as a director alongside Chad Stahelski with the first John Wick movie. He followed it up with Atomic Blonde , which tapped out with $100 million worldwide and then went on to helm Deadpool 2 ($785 million) and Hobbs & Shaw ($760 million). His last film was Bullet Train , which ended its global run with around $240 million worldwide.

Gosling and Blunt have had their own ups and downs to deal with as they try to establish themselves as bankable stars. They faced off last year as supporting performers in Barbie and Oppenheimer , respectively, and went on to earn Oscar nominations for their work. While Barbie generated over $1.3 billion worldwide, Oppenheimer is knocking on the door of the $1 billion mark itself. Before that, Blunt starred opposite Dwayne Johnson in the ill-fated Jungle Cruise , which Disney dropped day-and-date on the Disney+ streaming service and in theaters during mid-pandemic 2021. The movie made $221 million worldwide.

'The Fall Guy' Surrendered Its IMAX Theaters to 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes'

Blunt has had a better success rate as a lead performer than Gosling in recent years; she led Mary Poppins Returns to $350 million worldwide, while also starring in The Quiet Place movies , which have grossed a combined total of nearly $650 million globally. Before Barbie , Gosling starred in the Netflix film The Gray Man as well as First Man , Blade Runner 2049 , and The Nice Guys . His 2016 film La La Land , on the other hand, was a smash hit and grossed nearly $450 million worldwide.

In The Fall Guy , he plays a stunt performer who gets embroiled in a conspiracy around the lead star of a movie he’s working on. Universal bet big on the film, premiering it at the South by Southwest Film Festival weeks in advance of its theatrical debut and sending Gosling and Blunt on a riotous publicity tour. Reviews were also favorable , with the movie holding a "fresh" 81% approval rating on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , and earning a stellar A- CinemaScore from opening day audiences.

Also featuring Hannah Waddingham , Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Teresa Palmer and Winston Duke , The Fall Guy is playing in theaters. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and grab your tickets below.

The Fall Guy

Colt Seavers is a stuntman who left the business a year earlier to focus on both his physical and mental health. He's drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie, which is being directed by his ex, goes missing.

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Movie Review: ‘IF,’ imperfect but charming, may have us all checking under beds for our old friends

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Cailey Fleming, left, and the character Blue, voiced by Steve Carell, in a scene from “IF.” (Paramount Pictures via AP)

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows the character Blossom, voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, left, and Cailey Fleming in a scene from “IF.” (Paramount Pictures via AP)

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Ryan Reynolds, from left, Cailey Fleming, the character Blue, voiced by Steve Carell, and the Blossom, voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, in a scene from “IF.” (Paramount Pictures via AP)

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Cailey Fleming, right, and Ryan Reynolds in a scene from “IF.” (Jonny Cournoyer/Paramount Pictures via AP)

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Cailey Fleming, left, and Ryan Reynolds in a scene from “IF.” (Jonny Cournoyer/Paramount Pictures via AP)

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Cailey Fleming in a scene from “IF.” (Jonny Cournoyer/Paramount Pictures via AP)

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How do you make a kid’s movie that appeals not only to the kids, but the adults sitting next to them? Most movies try to achieve this by throwing in a layer of wink-wink pop culture references that’ll earn a few knowing laughs from parents but fly nicely over the heads of the young ones.

So let’s credit John Krasinski for not taking the easy way out. Writing and directing (and acting in, and producing) his new kid’s movie, “IF,” Krasinski is doing his darndest to craft a story that works organically no matter the age, with universal themes — imagination, fear, memory — that just hit different depending on who you are.

Or maybe sometimes, they hit the same — because Krasinski, who wanted to make a movie his kids could watch (unlike his “Quiet Place” thrillers), is also telling us that sometimes, we adults are more connected to our childhood minds than we think. A brief late scene that actually doesn’t include children at all is one of the most moving moments of the film – but I guess I would say that, being an adult and all.

There’s only one conundrum: “IF,” a story about imaginary friends (get it?) that blends live action with digital creatures and some wonderful visual effects (and cinematography by Janusz Kaminski), has almost too many riches at its disposal. And we’re not even talking about the Who’s Who of Hollywood figures voicing whimsical creatures: Steve Carell, Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper, Jon Stewart, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Maya Rudolph, Emily Blunt, Sam Rockwell, and the late Louis Gosset Jr. are just a few who join live stars Ryan Reynolds and Cailey Fleming. Imagining a table read makes the head spin.

The issue is simply that with all the artistic resources and refreshing ideas here, there’s a fuzziness to the storytelling itself. Just who is actually doing what and why they’re doing it — what are the actual mechanics of this half-human, half-digital world? — occasionally gets lost in the razzle-dazzle.

Blossom, voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Cailey Fleming in a scene from “IF.” (Paramount Pictures via AP)

But, still, everything looks so darned lovely, starting with the pretty, brownstone-lined streets of Brooklyn Heights in New York City, where our story is chiefly set. We begin in flashback, with happy scenes of main character Bea as a little girl, playing with her funloving parents (Krasinski and Catharine Daddario). But soon we’re sensing Mom may be sick — she’s wearing telltale headscarves and hats — and it becomes clear what’s happening.

Bea is 12 when she arrives with a suitcase at her grandmother’s Brooklyn apartment, filled with her old paint sets and toys. Grandma (Fiona Shaw, in a deeply warm performance) offers the art supplies, but Bea tells her: “I don’t really do that anymore.”

She says something similar to her father, visiting him in the hospital (it takes a few minutes to figure out that they’ve come to New York, from wherever they live, so Dad can have some sort of heart surgery.) He tells Bea he’s not sick, just broken, and needs to be fixed. Hoping to keep her sense of fun alive, he jokes around, but she says sternly: “Life doesn’t always have to be fun.”

And then the creatures start appearing, visible only to Bea.

We first meet a huge roly-poly bundle of purple fur called “Blue” (Carell.) Yes, we said he was purple. The kid who named him was color-blind. These, we soon understand, are IFs —imaginary friends — who’ve been cut loose, no longer needed. There’s also a graceful butterfly called Blossom who resembles Betty Boop (Waller-Bridge). A winsome unicorn (Blunt). A smooth-voiced elderly teddy bear (Gossett Jr., in a sweet turn.) We’ll meet many more.

Supervising all of them is Cal (Ryan Reynolds.) An ornery type, at least to begin with, he’s feeling rather overworked, trying to find new kids for these IFs. But now that Bea has found Cal living atop her grandmother’s apartment building, she’s the chosen helper.

The pair — Reynolds and the sweetly serious Fleming have a winning chemistry — head to Coney Island on the subway, where Cal shows Bea the IF “retirement home.” This is, hands down, the most delightful part of the movie. Filmed at an actual former retirement residence, the scene has the look down pat: generic wall-to-wall carpeting, activity rooms for CG-creature group therapy sessions, the nail salon. And then the nonagenarian teddy bear gives Bea a key bit of advice: all she need do is use her imagination to transform the place. And she does, introducing everything from a spiffy new floor to a swimming pool with Esther Williams-style dancers to a rock concert with Tina Turner.

Cailey Fleming and Ryan Reynolds in a scene from “IF.” (Jonny Cournoyer/Paramount Pictures via AP)

The movie moves on to Bea’s matchmaking efforts. A tough nut to crack is Benjamin (Alan Kim), an adorable boy in the hospital who favors screens and seems to have trouble charging his own imagination (spoiler alert: that’ll get fixed).

There are segments here that feel like they go on far too long, particularly when Bea, Cal and Blue track down Blue’s now-adult “kid” (Bobby Moynihan of “Saturday Night Live”), now nervously preparing for a professional presentation.

Still, the idea that adults could still make use of their old “IFs” at difficult times — and, to broaden the thought, summon their dormant sense of whimsy, as a closing scene captures nicely — is a worthwhile one. And by movie’s end, one can imagine more than one adult in the multiplex running home, checking under the bed, hoping to find a trusted old friend.

“IF,” a Paramount release, has been rated PG by the Motion Picture Association “for thematic elements and mild language.” Running time: 104 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.