Who wouldn’t want to take a masterclass in acting from the great Emily Blunt? “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” had the next best thing last night when the “Girl on the Train” star stopped by Colbert’s Manhattan studio and offered the late-night host some acting tips.
Apparently, Blunt and her co-star Justin Theroux, who plays her ex-husband in the psychological thriller, would lighten the mood of their post-marital mayhem with some goofy acting tips and tricks.
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“He knew if I was having a hard day, he’d just send me an acting tip on driving, how to do a driving scene, how to do a sex scene—those sort of tips,” Blunt tells Colbert in the clip. She then premieres a video straight from her iPhone filmed on set of she and Theroux going back and forth with different ways to say a particular line. “It was me showing him how to approach a line in different ways. You can have different intonations, you can create different emotions.”
Of course, Colbert can’t let Blunt and Theroux have all the fun. He drums up an exercise where he and his guest test different ways of saying something he recites every night: “Stick around, we’ve got a great show.”
What ensues is a back and forth of saying that one line (students of the Meisner Technique may recognize the repetition excercise!) that eventually escalates with Colbert leaving the room in anger. Catch the drama—and the quick acting tips—below.
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