{"id":1748768,"date":"2022-11-23T03:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T08:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748768"},"modified":"2022-11-23T03:17:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T08:17:41","slug":"theres-something-about-women-and-emily-blunt-knows-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-something-about-women-and-emily-blunt-knows-it\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s Something About Women, And Emily Blunt Knows It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftheres-something-about-women-and-emily-blunt-knows-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748768&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Emily Blunt has battled aliens with Tom Cruise, gone toe-to-toe with Dwayne \u201cthe Rock\u201d Johnson in a hostile jungle, and fought deadly drug cartels as an FBI agent over the course of her movie career. You\u2019d be forgiven for thinking she was Hollywood\u2019s \u201cit\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/10\/disneys-jungle-cruise-reminds-us-why-the-strong-female-lead-is-so-uninspiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tough girl<\/a>. But that\u2019s the last thing the actress, who stars in the recently released Western miniseries \u201cThe English,\u201d wants to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the worst thing ever when you open a script and read the words: \u2018strong female lead,\u2019\u201d she said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/lap9n#selection-1504.0-2111.404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> with The Telegraph earlier this month. \u201cThat makes me roll my eyes \u2014 I\u2019m already out. I\u2019m bored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discussing her role in \u201cThe English\u201d \u2014 as a pink-and-tulle-clad Englishwoman who arrives in the 19th-century American West seeking vengeance for her son\u2019s death \u2014 Blunt captured not just the magic of her character, but some of the magical attributes of womanhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love a character with a secret,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I loved Cornelia\u2019s buoyancy, her hopefulness, her guilelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[\u2018Strong female lead\u2019] roles are written as incredibly stoic, you spend the whole time acting tough and saying tough things. Cornelia is more surprising than that,\u201d Blunt continued. \u201cShe\u2019s innocent without being naive and that makes her a force to be reckoned with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/10\/disneys-jungle-cruise-reminds-us-why-the-strong-female-lead-is-so-uninspiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Disney\u2019s \u2018Jungle Cruise\u2019 Reminds Us Why The \u2018Strong Female Lead\u2019 Is So Uninspiring<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a word for the enigmatic kind of person Blunt is describing, and that word is \u201cwoman.\u201d Every woman is different, of course, as Blunt\u2019s description of a beautifully complex character makes clear. But that very complexity \u2014 wise innocence, the capacity to pursue ruthless vengeance wearing Pepto-Bismol pink, the elusive \u201csecret\u201d she mentions \u2014 is part of what sets women apart from men. <\/p>\n<p>To some extent or another, men tend to be more direct, task-oriented, and analytical. When they say they have \u201cnothing\u201d on their minds, it\u2019s usually the literal truth. Women\u2019s minds and hearts are beautifully intricate, and those interwoven complexities have immense power for good or evil, as Blunt\u2019s character shows.<\/p>\n<p>Womanly strength doesn\u2019t mimic that of men; it has its own character. Those differences between the sexes are designed to complement each other. At their most extreme, masculinity and femininity look starkly different, and that reality is reflected even in Blunt\u2019s comments on the aesthetic differences between characters in \u201cThe English.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point in her Telegraph interview, Blunt turned to her co-star Chaske Spencer, a 6\u20192\u2033 member of the Fort Peck Tribe who plays her American Indian counterpart. \u201cI remember looking up at you, over my enormous puff sleeve, and seeing your extraordinary profile with the mohawk and the earring, and thinking you were so striking-looking,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat an incredible image, to have these two people in the same frame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blunt\u2019s own character, she said, \u201cstartles [Spencer\u2019s] out of his silence and their differences become irrelevant because they need each other to survive. I thought that was very cool.\u201d I haven\u2019t seen the show, but I\u2019d wager their differences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the complex, beautiful, powerful, gentle, unyielding nature that we often try to capture with the word &#8216;femininity.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1748771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}