Emily Blunt's 'guilt' over separation from daughters and acting break

07 January 2024 , 08:00

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Emily Blunt's 'guilt' over separation from daughters and acting break

Film fans may fear Emily Blunt will be off screens for all of 2024 after she declared she is taking a year off work to spend more time with her family.

The 40-year-old British actress is married to 44-year-old American actor, writer and director John Krasinski and together they are proud parents to daughters Hazel, nine, and Violet, seven. And while Emily declared she would be taking a year off work to spend more time with her girls, she will still be appearing in cinemas throughout 2024.

Last year, the actress appeared in the hit movie Oppenheimer and the Netflix film Pain Hustlers - and this year she is due to appear in action comedy film The Fall Guy opposite Ryan Gosling and lends her voice to a unicorn character in upcoming fantasy comedy IF, which stands for Imaginary Friends.

Both films will be released in May - while Emily is tipped for awards success as she is nominated for a Golden Globe, Critics Choice, Satellite and Saturn award for her role as Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer in Oppenhiemer; with Oscar, Bafta and Emmy award nominations also expected to be presented in the coming months.

Emily Blunt has explained why she is taking time out of acting (Getty Images)

Emily has been married to John Krasinski since 2010 and they share two children together (Getty)

Last year, while promoting Oppenheimer, Emily explained why she was stepping back from the world of acting as she was struggling to balance acting and parenting. She told the Table For Two podcast: “It’s one of those things when people are like, ‘How do you balance it?’ I never feel like I’m doing it right, you know.

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“I worked quite a bit last year and my oldest baby is nine, so we're in the last year of single digits. And I just feel [like] there are cornerstones to their day that are so important when they're little. And it's, 'Will you wake me up? Will you take me to school? Will you pick me up? Will you put me to bed?' And I just need to be there for all of them for a good stretch. And I just felt that in my bones. I had a beautiful time on the projects I did last year. Some were more tense than others, some were harder than others. Some were more time consuming than others.

"The ones that are time consuming, I think for me are becoming few and further between because of just the emotional cost on me, on the kids, on balance. And I'm very prone to guilt, I think all mothers are. You're just prone to feeling bad for, god forbid, wanting something outside of being a mother."

Emily and John have been praised in Hollywood in the past for their parenting skills, with a source telling Us Weekly back in 2018: “Their careers may be busy, but they have a great family life… Most of the time, they’re just normal parents taking their kids to birthday parties and playdates. On the weekend they’re all out having brunch and playing at the park.”

The pair have also been open books about their approach to parenting and their love for their two daughters. In May 2021, Emily told the Sunday Times: “I don't want my kids to feel any more important or special or that there's a glare on them any more than other kids. If they can remain oblivious for the longest time, I'd be thrilled. They don't even want to see what I do. They don't even like it when I put on makeup. They don't like any of it! They just want me to be their mommy."

And Emily has previously discussed the changing accents of her children as she and John have moved them between the UK and USA. Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2016, Emily revealed: “Hazel had my accent for a really long time and would say things like ‘water,’ which I was really proud of... [but] the other day [she had switched her dictation]. I was like, ‘No!’”

However, appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2020, the actress explained that the girls accents had changed after they moved to the UK and were enrolled in a British school. She declared: "They’ve actually been in a proper school with school uniforms... Miraculously, they’re sounding quite British, which I’m completely over the moon about.”

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