Just because you’re good at something does not necessarily mean you want to do it. Emily Blunt regularly stuns on the red carpet: She recently turned
Just because you’re good at something does not necessarily mean you want to do it. Emily Blunt regularly stuns on the red carpet: She recently turned heads at the Venice Film Festival 2025, where she dazzled in a Tamara Ralph gown. But that doesn’t mean she always prefers to wear high fashion garments.
In an interview with Net-a-Porter, the actor and Vanity Fair Italia September issue cover star revealed that she prefers more casual clothing. “I drown myself in clothes,” she explained. “I quite like oversized; I like to hide, I like to shroud.”
There’s another high fashion accessory Blunt isn’t keen on. “I don’t love wearing heels,” she told Net-a-Porter. That’s not a huge surprise, as stilettos are not exactly synonymous with comfort. When going out, Blunt prefers to rock a pair of sneakers with perhaps some jewelry and a little makeup. But now that she’s returning to the role of Emily Charlton, former assistant to Runway magazine editor in chief Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), she’s forced to wear heels every day on set of the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada.
“Getting back to The Devil Wears Prada has been a rude awakening for all of us,” said Blunt, at least in terms of footwear.
But reviving the iconic role of Emily Charlton—now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs—is well worth the pain. Especially considering how highly anticipated the sequel is.
Paparazzi have seemingly captured practically every moment of the shoot thus far. To survive it, Blunt said that she employs the “zen approach” of her costar Anne Hathaway, ignoring all the hoopla and letting the unwanted attention roll off her back.
“When we made the first movie, none of us expected the meteoric life that it would have and the impact it would have on people. As my husband said to me the other day, this is people’s nostalgia bank,” she said, referring to husband John Krasinski. “I’m not sure I’ve ever been hit with a bombardment of the realization of what the movie is to people coming back to the film set. And that’s what we all feel, holy cow. That’s what everyone says every day: holy shit.”
This story originally appeared in VF Italia.
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