our first guest is a wonderful actress she is starring in a new film entitled into the
woods it's in theaters when do you think it's in theaters Paul I think it starts today Christmas
Christmas Day what a great time what a lovely thing after the big Christmas present you and
your family like Biff's taking his family to the theater on the Westchester premiere
take your family and to see into the woods that's where I'm going to do that's right
exactly please welcome the very lovely Emily Blunt Emily come out and how you doing I'm
I am I'm fine yeah and you're married to John Krasinski everybody knows that and that's that
sounds like a great uh marriage yeah yeah it's a pretty good deal like a nice guy he's the worst
it's pretty amazing tell me about your uh you have a nine month old little girl what's your
little girl's name Hazel oh Hazel we kind of like old lady names now I I don't think of it
as an old lady name but my aunt my mother's sister is named Hazel you have to say that
it's a beautiful name yeah how is Hazel nine months old so cute and fat what do they do at
nine months they're not walking and talking crawling yeah moving with kind of a velocity
now no uh I see I'm no uh I'm no uh what do they call them when you go to your doctor
when you're pregnant I'm no pediatrician I'm no obstetrician I'm no obstetrician
uh but I'm wondering it would be amazing if you were would it like on the side yeah
in addition I'm not only a talk shower GYN I'm an obstetrician
that would be great are you Jimmy's out there can just suck it
no uh I'm wondering and again none of my business but when you're making the movie Into the Woods
were you with child I was with child I found out I was pregnant the same week I found out I had the
job so I had to call Rob Marshall our director about two weeks before we started rehearsing
and I said I have something to tell you yeah he said you're having a baby for a joke and I went
yes Rob I am you know wow yeah for for a director uh this is this a decision is tricky do we I mean
it's also because I'm supposed to be playing this barren woman who can't have children the
ultimate irony of a pregnant action the pregnancy yeah um so I had I was about four months when we
started shooting or three and a half months and about seven and a half months by the end
and the objects they've took me yeah yeah and the objects they would hide my pregnancy behind got
bigger and bigger it started off like a bag and then it became another actor and then it became
a cow by the end there's a cow in the movie yeah catering trucks yeah um but now honestly
creatively speaking and it's a lovely thing that you are pregnant you're a lovely actress and why
wouldn't you want to be pregnant but if the plot of the movie is here's a woman who not only is not
pregnant is trying desperately to become pregnant but yet before our eyes is getting bigger and
bigger and bigger did anybody ever say uh I don't know well I probably Chris Pine was the only one
because we have this very romantic scene where he has to sort of dip me and when we did it in
rehearsals I was about three and a half months pregnant by the time we did it it was right at
the end and I said you need to add 25 pounds to that dip like you better get in a deep lunge and I
swear to God I felt his quad just shaking which is awful well he was dipping for two dipping for two
but do you know what I mean
it's an essential part of the story I know but yet right before our eyes I mean they could
have written it right into oh my God good news guess what everyone well we've been in the woods
she somehow gotten pregnant listen weird stuff happens in the woods you don't need to tell me
and what about that uh Meryl Streep for God's sake she's so amazing it's annoying you were
like you were with her in the uh The Devil Wears a Prada movie and she's tormenting me in that and
now she's tormenting me in this movie She's the witch that has cast this horrible spell
on our house right so I just said this is it we couldn't have any other Dynamic now no you just
have to hate me but you but but you saved her life on the set of excuse me that's why that's
why I think at some point I should play the Queen of Versailles and she could be my lowly
dressmaker did you mention mention that to her I did mention it to her I did I actually
I know well I think it's a great idea and I mentioned it to her and her response was
Dream On Dream On yeah it's Meryl Streep so uh but I did save her life yes that was on
this this movie the production of this yes we were rehearsing a scene where she's playing the
Witch and she's supposed to jump onto the table with the cape and everything and I just saw this
thing happen in slow motion you know when you see something awful happens it's like the sound
cuts out it's like you know Meryl Streep's foot got caught in her cape and we just started to
watch her slowly topple head first towards the concrete floor Rob Marshall and James Corden
froze didn't move and the pregnant woman caught her you actually caught her I caught her wow
so she owes me she should play my lowly dressmaker she owes me big time now uh
I'm sure it was scary at the time but now in retelling have we enhanced it a bit or was
it or was it was it that close to real danger I mean could she have been injured she could
have been injured yeah I don't think she would have died because that just she's not supposed
to advertise no yeah was there any thought on the set uh just let her go [Laughter] play the witch
uh now is your husband home with the baby right now he is yeah
maybe the lucky guy this guy isn't he he's really like his guy
and you're you're uh you're singing and stuff in the movie singing and stuff in
the movie which is scary because it's do you know Stephen sondheim's musicals do I do I ever
and he's gonna break into song that would be a perfect musical numbers yeah it's too bad
um his stuff's complex let me take a guess send in the clowns yes okay no no don't you dare
but uh so so you're singing stuff and had you sung on film before I had not sung on film I had sung
in the shower by myself so unless you've showered with me you wouldn't know that I would sing it's
a long list it's a long list [Applause] she says hey John how's that make you feel
no and the honest truth is I hadn't even ever sung in front of John so I found it nerve-wracking
singing in front of people and I was reluctant to audition for Rob Marshall who's like a musical God
but but it was amazing and Steven sometimes music is so complex and challenging you know
when you when you see the the finished product here do you think whoa this
is great are you pleased with the whole effort the only one applauding myself in
a lot of work and a lot of trouble I'm seven and a half months half month pretending you're not
pregnant there's that talk about acting that's it uh I am really proud unspeakably I think it's
beautiful Perfect film for Christmas perfect I'm so proud and it was a hugely successful uh
musical uh ran and ran and ran yeah yeah I mean I hadn't even in England nobody really knows into
the woods in America he's gonna do it in every high school and yeah well screw him scream right
Let's uh let's take a look at a clip this is uh into the woods opens December 25th
what are we going to see you're singing you're pregnant how pregnant are you in this I think
at this point I was like five months you know wow yeah so this would be good yeah can we see
you think we'll see I don't think so I mean now that's all they're going to be looking at
um anything to sell tickets yeah and was is it they shoot this in IMAX because then [Applause]
okay let's see if we can tell here it is Into the Woods take a look Emily Blunt oh
great by the way thank you
I know and he was so sweet this little boy lovely it's into the woods you can see at the Christmas
Day ladies and gentlemen and here's the lovely Emily Blunt congratulations to you and your family
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