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"No One Has Offered Me That Officially" – Emily Blunt On Captain Marvel Role

Published Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:30:42 -0600

Last updated Sat, 03 Jan 2015 02:15:56 -0600

There has been a lot of talk on-line about Emily Blunt playing Captain Marvel in the upcoming Marvel movie, but the talk has all been speculative and Blunt's name pops up whenever a female role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes up as she had been considered for both Black Widow and Peggy Carter early on.

During an interview with Vulter.com, Captain Marvel was brought up while talking about Into The Woods.

This is your second time working with Meryl Streep, after The Devil Wears Prada.
Meryl was like a mama bear on set. She was always on pee patrol, making sure I got time to pee whenever I wanted to. "Guys, cut! Emily needs to use the bathroom — again!" [Laughs.] It was that kind of thing.

And you kind of returned the favor? When you saved her life?
[Laughs.] That's been completely blown out of proportion. I kind of caught her arm when she was falling off a table, but it's not as big of a deal as everyone's made it out to be. That's not just me being modest. It's really not. But the guys just kind of stood there, with their jaws open. You know when scary things happen and everything kind of slows down? It was one of those, but it was totally fine.

Okay, because you could have used saving Meryl Streep's life as a reason for them to cast you as Captain Marvel. You could have used that as prior superhero experience.
Oh! No one's offered me that officially, so it's … [laughs] very unofficial. I think it's fan-casting, which is always very nice. But nothing official has been offered, for sure. If I get it, thank Meryl for it!

They talked to you before for Black Widow and Peggy Carter …
Yeah, but it was never the right time, really, and it just didn't work out scheduling-wise with those two. It's always a difficult thing to talk about, because it's not fair to the actresses who ended up playing them, you know? It just wasn't the right time.

Her response to mention of Captain Marvel is very interesting. No one has offered her the role officially… that's a very specific denial of a question that wasn't really asked. It sounds like maybe Blunt has at least had a conversation about the part with someone.

[Source: Vulture.com]

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