Emily Blunt Held Back Edge of Tomorrow Sequel To Do Mary Poppins Returns

In an interview with Indiewire, Emily Blunt revealed that she delayed production of the sequel to Edge of Tomorrow in order to do Mary Poppins Returns for Disney. Here are highlights:

On taking over a beloved character like Mary Poppins: “Rob Marshall sort of protected me from the idea that I felt like I was moving a boulder out of the way of this iconic role played by someone as iconic and as brilliant as Julie Andrews. Ultimately, he allowed it to feel like an intimate process where I could just make her my own. It will be my interpretation of her, for better or worse.”

On holding back the Edge of Tomorrow sequel: “It’s a lot for all the stars to align for everyone to be free at the same time and available to do it at the same time. They asked me to do [it] two months before I started ‘Mary Poppins.’ Tom was like, ‘Can you go this autumn?’ and I was like, ‘No, I can’t go, I’m playing Mary Poppins for like a year, dude! I can’t do ‘Edge of Tomorrow.’”

On the sequel’s story: “Doug Liman has got an awesome idea and he’s excited and they just need to write it. There has been a script, but now I gather there’s another one in the works.”