Emily Blunt and Matt Damon have enough on screen chemistry in there new movie ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ that they could teach ever course at University of California–Berkeley’s College of Chemistry.
Emily Blunt and Matt Damon have enough on screen chemistry in there new movie ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ that they could teach ever course at University of California–Berkeley’s College of Chemistry.
Emily Blunt and Matt Damon have serious on-screen chemistry in their new movie ‘The Adjustment Bureau‘ which opens today nationwide. The Adjustment Bureau’ reminds us of the greatness of ‘Inception’ and ‘The Matrix,’ mixed with your favorite love story.
GlobalGrind had the chance to chat with Emily Blunt and Matt Damon about this tale of love and fate. So adjust your chairs and computer screens while you check out our conversation with Emily Blunt and Matt Damon below.
As The Adjustment Bureau focuses upon the theme of fate, can each of you recount a story where fate was just so strong in your own lives, you couldn’t ignore it and it was just like a “wow” moment?
Matt Damon: I think Emily’s chance to work with me must have been one of those moments.
Emily Blunt (laughing): I have one story which is pretty cool that I remember. I didn’t get into this very amazing school that my sister went to and I wanted to be just like my sister. This school is called Westminster in London. We are basically competitive and she gets in because she’s a brainiac and I don’t because I’m obviously not. I basically remember at 16 just being devastated and my life was over and this is so sad and I felt so inferior that I hadn’t gotten in so I went to my second choice school and it had a good drama department.
I hadn’t previously considered acting but I did a play through my school that went to this festival. I got an agent, he’s still my agent, and now I’m here with you. And if I had gone to Westminster I wouldn’t be doing this job, guaranteed. So I think that was weird and at the time it seems devastating and so sad but really it was obviously meant to happen that way.
MD: Well clearly for me, passing up the chance to be in ‘Avatar’ in order to do ‘Green Zone’ was, I’d say, one of those moments.
EB: Because ‘Avatar’ made no money.
MD: ‘Avatar’ didn’t do very well and the DVD of ‘Green Zone’ is just going to be huge. No, I do end up thinking about jobs… there are so many roads not taken. There’s a Garth Brooks song called “Thank God for Unanswered Prayers” and I think of all those movies that I auditioned for, jobs that I was desperate to get that really turned out to be a blessing in disguise. And looking back on my life and my career and everything I feel like as much as I tried to control as much as I could, and worked as hard as I could, a lot of it really is down to luck. And I’d say one of the biggest ones – there was a Werner Herzog movie called ‘Rescue Dawn’ that Christian Bale did and Werner and I were talking about that. This was eight years ago about me possibly playing that role. I was really strongly considering it and instead I met with the Farrelly brothers and I remember talking to my mother and my mother said, “You know, you don’t always have to go into a jungle and lose a bunch of weight. You’re allowed to have a little fun.” And I did the Farrelly brothers movie and that was where I met my wife. Four kids later…that was a pretty fateful decision.
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