Emily Blunt on Airbrushing: "It Makes You Look Like Barbie"
July 30 2010, Published 5:07 a.m. ET
Emily Blunt may be a giddy newlywed, but when it comes to her image — picking her red carpet gowns and avoiding airbrushing — her feet are firmly on the ground.
"I don't like it when they stretch you out and make you all long and skinny," she says of the trend for over-enthusiastic airbrushing, in the UK edition of Elle magazine via The Huffington Post. "It makes you look like a Barbie. Who the hell looks like that?"
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She takes a similarly refreshing approach to her fashion choices. "I think I tend to dress quite hard," she says. "I'm definitely not a frilly girl and I don't wear dresses that much."
Although she employs a stylist, Emily, who recently married John Krasinski in an Italian ceremony, says she makes the final decision: "When it's a red carpet thing, I think it's good to just go for it.
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"Who cares if someone hates it? If I love something — if I think it's edgy and cool — I don't care what anyone else thinks."
Meanwhile, the British-born star had to equip herself with a whole new skill for her upcoming movie, The Adjustment Bureau, with Matt Damon.
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"I had to learn to do ballet for the role, which was terrifying — you can't really get away with half-assing it,' she says.
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"There's something very exposing about dancing in front of people. It's like asking someone to look you in the eye and sing without any sense of irony. It's that embarrassing.
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"This is my weekend of revenge on the diet I've had to be on for the re-shoots,"she says. "Last night I had steamed pork buns that made me want to weep. I feel like I'm just emerging from a food coma."
But Matt took the opportunity to indulge. "After Bourne and Invictus, he was like, 'Just for once, I don't have to go to the gym, so I'm going to eat burgers in front of you and you're going to have to deal with it'."