Emily Blunt says Tom Cruise told her to 'stop being such a p****' during filming: 'He just stared at me for a long time' - Yahoo Entertainment

Emily Blunt got a dose of pugnacious emotion from co-star Tom Cruise during the accumulation of their 2014 blockbuster film, Edge of Tomorrow.

During an quality connected the podcast Smartless, the British actress, 39, recalled being told by the iconic enactment prima to "stop being specified a p****."

The grueling accumulation of the science-fiction enactment film, which featured Blunt and Cruise tackling an alien species, called for the stars to deterioration "enormous" suits to marque the scenes arsenic realistic arsenic possible.

“We had to deterioration these tremendous suits, which I deliberation would’ve been large if we had CGI’d them, but we wanted to bash it successful a tactile way,” Blunt explained to podcast hosts Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes, the New York Post reported. “When you perceive the connection ‘tactile,’ you deliberation that sounds bully and cozy. There was thing cozy astir these suits. It was similar 85 pounds. It was truthful heavy. The archetypal clip I enactment it connected I started to cry, and Cruise didn’t cognize what to do.”

Blunt went connected to accidental that she voiced her interest to Cruise astir however she was going to negociate to marque it done accumulation successful an 85-pound suit that weighed her down.

“I was like, ‘Tom, I’m not definite however I’m going to get done this shoot,’ and conscionable started to cry,” Blunt recalled. “I said, ‘I’m feeling a spot panicky astir the full shoot.'”

In effect to her concerns, Cruise gave it to Blunt straight: "He conscionable stared astatine maine for a agelong time, not knowing what to do, and helium goes, ‘Come on, halt being specified a p****, OK?'”

Luckily, Blunt took the remark good and responded to Cruise by laughing it off.

Blunt is nary alien to tackling challenging situations portion filming movies. Her husband, actor/director John Krasinski, filmed scenes for A Quiet Place Part II, the sequel to his 2018 alien penetration thriller, A Quiet Place, successful 100-degree upwind wrong a ember mine. Last year, she explained that during the accumulation of the escapade movie Jungle Cruise with Dwayne Johnson, she stepped connected a nest of occurrence ants and became covered successful the unsafe insects.

“I was successful Tanzania and I was climbing Mount Meru and we’d been warned astir occurrence ants. They’re similar these elephantine reddish ants, and erstwhile they wound you, it’s … fire. So I was walking and I looked down and I had intelligibly stepped successful a nest, and I must’ve had a 100 conscionable climbing up my footwear astir my ankle," Blunt told Yahoo Entertainment past year. Blunt tackled the concern quickly, pulling her pants down successful beforehand of everyone and shaking them retired until the ants were scattered backmost connected the ground. "That was the scariest. Everyone was screaming and trying to flick them disconnected of me. They were climbing each up my limb and I did get immoderate fiery small nips.”

Clearly, Blunt's co-stars deliberation highly of her: Johnson referred to Blunt arsenic a "female Indiana Jones" for her adventurous pursuits onscreen.