Emily Blunt sat down with Elle magazine for its Women in Hollywood cover series and looked back at her first movie audition, which was for Paweł Pawlikowski’s 2004 romance drama “My Summer of Love.” Blunt was 19 years old at the time. The movie encouraged improvisations, so there was no script to read from during the audition.

“Paweł sat by the window and he had this mad hair,” Blunt said. “He’s filming me on his camcorder and in his Polish accent he goes, ‘Okay, so we’re going to do a little reading. You look out the window and you see your dad and he’s fucking his secretary, and I want you to be horrified. You get very, very mad. Then get very upset and cry about it. And then at some point, pretend the whole thing’s a joke. Okay, go.’”

“He gave me no opportunity, but to put my feet

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