High Octane with Rose Byrne & Emily Blunt

The A24 Podcast

A24

Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Topics covered include:

Car rides to and from set, Emily’s special nickname for Dwayne Johnson, performing with a camera inches from your face, delicately handling playing a real person, Wonderbras, The Rock as the most patient man on Earth, not being concerned with being likable, Mary Bronstein’s intimate rehearsal process, audiences inherent distrust of a woman misbehaving, Emily reconnecting Dwayne and Benny on set of Oppenheimer, wanting to feel terror when choosing projects, and being hyper aware of the ocean.

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0:00.0	So I am Emily Blunt.
0:03.8	What's your name?
0:04.9	I'm Rose Byrne.
0:06.4	We're going to chat about our films.
0:09.1	We are here to talk about A24 films.
0:11.8	On the A24 podcast.
0:13.7	Yes, yes.
0:14.9	Can I just start by saying I wanted to scream directly into the pillow with you,
0:20.2	watching you in this very slow-paced,
0:25.3	nervous breakdown, which is one of the most painful types of nervous breakdowns to encounter
0:29.5	that it doesn't happen all at once.
0:31.2	It creeps in on you insidiously, and it was just extraordinary.
0:37.2	You were so wild, so unhinged, so broken, and it's had such a lasting effect on me.
0:45.2	It spoke to me on so many levels about maternal pressure and all the symbolism of the cord representing the umbilical cord.
0:54.6	It was just beautiful.
0:57.6	You were un-gosh.
0:59.1	That is so kind and sweet.
1:01.8	Oh my gosh.
1:02.5	I feel like this is going to turn into a festival of lovingness.
1:08.6	I loved The Smashing Machine.
1:11.4	I thought you guys were extraordinary.
1:13.6	And the movie was so like not what I had expected.
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