Smells like success.
Emily Blunt earned her first-ever Oscar nomination for her work as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer within the Christopher Nolan biopic “Oppenheimer.”
While the 40-year-old is ecstatic over her nod, she was in sort of a stinky position when she heard of the nomination.
The “Devil Wears Prada” actress revealed that she was actually scooping up her dog’s poop when she was notified in regards to the Academy Award nomination last month.
“It’s all quite scary, the anticipation of it, and I believe you simply try to not take heed to buzz because buzz could be built on sand sometimes,” she said during a conversation with Josh Horowitz at 92NY on Tuesday.
“And so when it did occur, and when it happened in such a far-reaching way for all of us within the movie and each crew member, it was magical,” Blunt continued.
The film earned a whopping 13 nominations in total, including for best picture.
“I did have a transient cry in the midst of Brooklyn, transient weep directly after picking up my dog’s poop,” Blunt went on. “I did pick up her poop after which I heard that I got nominated so it was perfect.”
The British actress revealed that husband John Krasinski also “had a very good cry as well, after helping me with the poop.”
“I believe he went and put it within the trash after which we each cried,” she recalled.
In “Oppenheimer,” Blunt plays the wife of Cillian Murphy’s J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was also generally known as the daddy of the atomic bomb.
The ensemble solid is rounded out by Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett and Rami Malek.
Blunt, for her part, “empathized” along with her character.
“The concept of that extraordinary brain wasted and decaying on the ironing board and the anger and the simmering rage that might follow,” the “Into the Woods” star said. “[Kitty] sort of raged against the machine as best she could… she married this icon and clearly worshipped him, loved him, supported him, was there, a hugely stabilizing force in his life and yet she was so unstable.”
Murphy, 47, and Downey Jr., 58, are also each nominated for Oscars for his or her work in the perfect actor and best supporting actor categories, respectively. Nolan, 53, earned a nod for best director too.
Murphy’s other leading lady was Pugh, 28, who played Oppenheimer’s mistress and physicist Jean Tatlock.
Last 12 months, the Irish actor divulged that the sex scenes with the “Little Women” star were “f—king powerful.”
“Those scenes were written deliberately,” Murphy told the Sydney Morning Herald in July.
“He [Nolan] knew that those scenes would get the movie the rating that it got. And I believe when you see it, it’s so f—ing powerful,” the “Red Eye” star added.
Pugh recently said that a camera actually broke during certainly one of their intimate moments on set. “Nobody knows this, nevertheless it did. Our camera broke when we were each naked, and it was not ideal timing,” she recalled. “I’m like, ‘What’s occurring with the shutter here, buddy?’”
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