Currently we can Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife Kitty in the cinema. After film hits like The Devil Wears Prada, Edge of Tomorrow, Sicario and A Quiet Place, she has long been known to a large audience. But she narrowly missed out on Black Widow’s Marvel star statusbecause she preferred a fantasy project that subsequently flopped.
Instead of Scarlett Johansson: Emily Blunt almost became Black Widow in the MCU
Today Scarlett Johansson is the face of Black Widow. Yet as the (initially only female) Avengers member Introduced to the MCU in Iron Man 2 in 2010 the part of Natasha Romanoff almost went to a completely different actress: Emily Blunt was offered the part.
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Emily Blunt in Gulliver’s Travels
On the podcast Happy Sad Confused recently, Emily Blunt modestly affirmed that ultimately “the better of the two of us” managed and tipped her hat off to Scarlett Johansson. Of all the big stars who almost ended up as Marvel heroes in the MCU, Emily Blut is probably the one who regrets this missed opportunity the most.
Because the film for which the British Black Widow let go was Gulliver’s Travels – Something big is coming our way. This now almost forgotten fantasy comedy starring Jack Black crash-landed in 2010. The flop made just under a third of its $112 million budget in the USA, earning $43 million. And even if the film finally reached a total of 237 million worldwide, after the underground reactions from audiences and critics, no one spoke of a sequel. Iron Man 2 grossed $624 million that same year.
Why Did Emily Blunt Turn Down the Marvel Role of Black Widow?
What makes Emily Blunt’s MCU cancellation, reported among others by our international partner site Espinof, even more tragic is the fact that she Black Widow didn’t quite give it up voluntarily.
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Emily Blunt mourns at Oppenheimer
SiriusXM’s Howard Stern revealed:
I was already under contract for Gulliver’s Travels. I didn’t want to do Gulliver’s Travels. […] It broke my heart a little. Because I’m usually very proud of the decisions I make. The films I make mean so much to me. So that was tough.
Fox had a bit of control over her at this point because she wanted to do other projects with the studio and thus (by breaking her contract) didn’t want to put her at odds with them.
As Emily Blunt revealed on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, she’s a little bit too proud of their special status: Being among the few Hollywood stars who haven’t played superheroes yet.
Podcast: Is Secret Invasion the Marvel Series Nick Fury Deserved After 15 Years of MCU?
8 months after She-Hulk, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is back with the new Secret Invasion series. The result is amazingly serious and brutal. You can currently stream it on Disney+.
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With no superheroes or multiverses, Nick Fury is drawn into a global Skrull conspiracy and gets the lead role for the first time in 15 years. But is the MCU series starring Samuel L. Jackson and Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke any good? We took a closer look at this in the series check of the first 2 episodes.
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