From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's The Treatment.

Welcome to the show, I'm Elvis Mitchell.

I first saw my guest ride into a movie on a white horse wearing a pair of red cowboy boots.

That's right.

In the film, My Summer of Love, which she said, yeah, I guess I'm kind of a bad influence.

Since then, we've seen Emily Blunt play a supernatural nanny, be a very, very, very quiet, expectant mother,

try to hold their own against a really imperious sort of vogue head. And she's now working again with her old friend, Dwayne Johnson, the film, The Smashing Machine. First of all, it's a pleasure to have you here. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm very honored. I thought about that performance in my summer of love and watching Smashing Machine.

Really?

Just because there's a kind of a bored cunning that both of these women have, because there's

a kind of a lack of sort of self-awareness and self-development, they feel it their most,

when other people were reacting to them.

Yeah.

And just, again, that entrance on that horse. I mean, you have to

tell me about that. Is that your first film? It was my first film. I was 20. And I think it really

informed so much going forward. It was the great Pavel Pavlovsky directed it and he did

Eda and all these wonderful films. But he works in such a spontaneous way and everything was improvised, which was terrifying.

Including that last thing you have with Patty Concent?

Yes.

Oh my gosh.

Everything.

And even my audition for it was a completely improvisational thing where he wanted me to look out the window and pretend

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