The Treat: Emily Blunt

0:00I'm Elvis Mitchell and this is The Treat. Actor Emily Blunt has been on a tear throughout her entire career. A swing that has connected her with talents such as Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and with her most recent film film film. Wayne Johnson, with whom she co-starred in The Smashing Machine. For The Treat, she takes us on a journey through a childhood of iconic movies. I'm Emily Blunt, and this is The Treat.

0:29I'm trying to think of these inspiring moments in my life that have led to this place. And there's such a myriad, but I think they do come back to my childhood and how I think my parents were innately very creative. I can't believe it. Your dream coming true. I can't believe it. And they exposed us to so much music, so many films that we really shouldn't have been watching at a very young age. My dad would often go to the video shop. He'd traipse down the road to the video store and bring back something wildly inappropriate for us to be watching. Pretty Woman, which I should never have been watching when I was 10.

1:23I always remember the bit where she fans out the condoms to him. And she fans them out and asks him which one. I remember saying, Dad, what are those? And he goes, oh, they're just, I think they're just chocolates. I think they're just, yeah. And he just lied. They're sweets. He's offering him sweets. and I remember thinking I don't think she is but they did kind of look like sweets. You told me things would be fine. They're not. I trusted you. I'm sorry about that. I really am. I don't need pity. I need a paycheck. And I've looked. But when you spend the past six years raising babies it's real hard to convince someone to give you a job that pays worth a damn.

1:57Are you getting every word of this down, honey or am I talking too fast for you? Erin Brockovich, I remember seeing that and just staggered by this display like she's so uninhibited emotionally she's just so exciting to watch her whole face pulses with emotion there's no holds barred and I feel that about DiCaprio I just watched him again in one battle and I just think sometimes his actors become really really famous and they've been around the block a while they almost become safer and I just think he's so terribly exciting that he he just swings for it every time and I respect it. I admire that lack of inhibition and yeah you see the emotion just exploding out of him and I think Julia was quite like that for me as a kid too.

2:46I have abused drugs and alcohol for the past 30 years man. I'm a drug and alcohol lover and I cannot remember for the life of me or the life of my only child the answer to your question what time is it? My dad did bring home Jaws. Again, too young to be watching it. I have never recovered from my fear of the ocean, so we've got Mr. Spielberg to thank for my approach to the water. I remember seeing Jurassic Park in the theatre when I was 12, and I wanted to go and see Fern Gully because I was terrified of horror movies, and I begged my sister, I was like, Fee, please, I really don't want to watch this, I'm so scared, and I was terrified.

3:27So maybe Steven Spielberg's responsible for a lot of fear in my life.

3:50Golden Globe nominee Emily Blunt's latest film is The Smashing Machine. Her treat is the work of inspirations such as Julia Roberts and Steven Spielberg, with whom she recently worked. The Treat is produced by Rebecca Mooney and mixed by Katie Gilchrist. I'm Elvis Mitchell. This is The Treat.

4:32Thank you.