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The Treatment

The Treat: Emily Blunt

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Actress Emily Blunt’s career has taken her from working with iconic actors, including Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise to playing iconic characters, such as Mary Poppins. Her latest role has her going toe to toe against one of the biggest stars of the screen. She plays real life Dawn Staples in The Smashing Machine opposite Dwayne Johnson and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance. For her treat, Blunt pays tribute to the inspiring (and mildly inappropriate films) that shaped her childhood.

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0:00.0

I'm Elvis Mitchell, and this is the treat.

0:03.5

Actor Emily Blunt has been on a tear throughout her entire career,

0:07.3

a swing that has connected her with talents such as Tom Cruise,

0:11.1

Merrill Streep, and with her most recent film, Dwayne Johnson,

0:15.2

with whom she co-starred in The Smashing Machine.

0:18.1

For the treat, she takes us on a journey through a childhood of iconic movies.

0:23.4

I'm Emily Blunt, and this is the treat.

0:29.0

I'm trying to think of these inspiring moments in my life that have led to this place.

0:36.5

And there's such a my myriad, but I think they do come back to my childhood and how I think

0:41.0

my parents were innately very creative.

0:53.7

And they exposed us to so much music, so many films that we really shouldn't have been watching at a very young age.

1:00.8

My dad would often go to the video shop.

1:03.8

He traips down the road to the video storing, bring back something wildly inappropriate for us to be watching.

1:09.4

Pretty woman, which I should never have been watching when I was 10. Pick one. I got red. I got green. I got yellow. I'm out of purple, but I do have one gold circle coin left. The condom of champions, the one and only, nothing is getting through this sucker. What do you say? I always remember the bit where she fans out the condoms to him. And she fans them out and asks him which one. I remember saying, Dad, what are those? And he goes, oh, they're just, I think they're just chocolates. I think they're just, yeah. And he just lied. They're sweets. He's offering him sweets. And I remember thinking, I don't think she is, but they did kind of look like sweets. You told me things would be fine. They're not. I trusted you. I'm sorry about that. I really am. I need a paycheck. And I've looked. But when you spend the past six years raising babies, it's real hard to convince someone to give you a job that pays worth of damn. Are you getting every word of this down, honey, or am I talking too fast for you?

2:01.9

Erin Brokovich, I remember seeing that and just staggered by this display. Like, she's so

2:08.5

uninhibited emotionally. She's just so exciting to watch her whole face pulses with emotion. There's

2:16.4

no holds bar. And I feel that about DiCaprio I just

2:19.2

watched him again in one battle and I just think sometimes as actors become really

2:24.0

really famous and they've been around the block a while they almost become

2:27.6

safer and I just think he's so terribly exciting that he he just swings for it every time and I

2:35.5

respect it I admire that

2:37.9

lack of inhibition and

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