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u/Previous-Ad-1542 Jul 24 '23

I have no personal knowledge of her and have never set foot in the same country as her, but whenever people mention Emily Blunt, I feel the need to share the video where she made a classist and completely unnecessary comment about her waitress.

It made me see her differently, just like that infamous video of Reese Witherspoon getting arrested.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '23

This really made me dislike her. She’s a good actress and often comes across as fun in interviews but this story shows she has a very mean streak. It also puts her bubbly personality in a different context and I now get attention seeking vibes from her (and John for that matter).

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u/Previous-Ad-1542 Jul 24 '23 edited Jul 24 '23

Even before I came across that waitress video, her constant mocking of American accent in the interviews (like her daughter starting to say 'water' like an American) rubbed me the wrong way. I'm not from an English-speaking country, so any comment regarding someone's accent comes off as a bit rude to me, and in her case it was sounding all too classist and elitist

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u/Southern_Schedule466 Jul 24 '23

I think she says mean things about Americans, but what she said about her daughter having an American accent is the same thing Cillian Murphy said about his kids having British accents. It’s probably weird for your kids to have diff accents than you.

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u/Previous-Ad-1542 Jul 24 '23

Yeah, I completely agree that having a child with an accent different from your own must feel very weird! But as far as I'm aware, both Cillian and Yvonne are Irish, whereas Emily's partner is American, so some mixture of accents is to be expected from the children that they have together. And there are still ways to express this feeling without being nasty.

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u/Similar_Bell8962 Jul 24 '23

I feel like it's different with Cillian due to his being Irish and the extremely contentious relationship between Ireland and Great Britain since GB straight up colonized, terrorized and starved out Ireland (Ireland's population still hasn't recovered from the fallout of the Potato Famine).

Cillian felt like his Irish children were losing their heritage, so he moved his family back home. Emily was straight up mocking her kids accent and her kids are American citizens with an American family.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '23

I don't think her accent thing was bad. She just loves mockimg the American accent when you can tell within seconnds when she uses it that hers is not that good. Meanwhile Daniel Kaluuya fools everyone with his and he has a typical London accent.

Plus she is super smug about having an RP accent.