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Emily Blunt sat down with Elle magazine<\/a> for its Women in Hollywood cover series and looked back at her first movie audition, which was for Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski\u2019s 2004 romance drama \u201cMy Summer of Love.\u201d Blunt was 19 years old at the time. The movie encouraged improvisations, so there was no script to read from during the audition.<\/p>\n \u201cPawe\u0142 sat by the window and he had this mad hair,\u201d Blunt said. \u201cHe\u2019s filming me on his camcorder and in his Polish accent he goes, \u2018Okay, so we\u2019re going to do a little reading. You look out the window and you see your dad and he\u2019s 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\u2019s a joke. Okay, go.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHe gave me no opportunity, but to put my feet to the fire,\u201d\u00a0Blunt added, noting that she immediately called her agent afterward and recounted how awful and embarrassing she thought she did in the audition. Blunt ultimately got the role, starring opposite Natalie Press in the film.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was about living in the moment, and really becoming somebody else,\u201d Blunt said about acting in the film, which centers on the romance between two young women. \u201cPawe\u0142 taught me a lot about ambiguity and spontaneity, which was completely terrifying to me at first. To work without any conformity was super scary. But I learned swiftly afterward from watching the movie how compelling ambiguity can be.\u201d<\/p>\n Blunt continued, \u201cIt just really created this foundation for me of, you can do really scary things, you can create, you can change the lines, you can stretch a scene around\u2014you can do that. So I\u2019d say that movie was a big turning point, a big lesson for me. Like being chucked in the deep end with a weight around my ankles.\u201d<\/p>\n While not an enormous box office success, \u201cMy Summer of Love\u201d was strongly embraced by film critics and won the best British film prize at he BAFTAs. The movie was Pawlikowski\u2019s second feature directorial effort and he would go on to helm the likes of \u201cIda\u201d and \u201cCold War,\u201d the former of which won the Oscar for best international feature and the latter of which earned Pawlikowski a best director nomination.<\/p>\n Blunt\u2019s performance in \u201cMy Summer of Love\u201d was widely praised, with Variety\u2019s<\/a> review<\/a> calling her \u201cterrific\u201d and praising her for adding a \u201csense of menace\u201d to the film with her \u201cmysterious, mixed-up\u201d character.<\/p>\n Head over to Elle magazine\u2019s website<\/a> to read Blunt\u2019s latest profile in its entirety.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski\u2019s 2004 romance drama \u201cMy Summer of Love.\u201d Blunt was 19 years old at the time. 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