BLUNT EMBRACES DAMAGED PROTAGONIST

Happily married with two young children, actress Emily Blunt relished the opportunity to play a divorced, alcoholic, damaged protagonist in her latest thriller, “The Girl on the Train. Blunt, married to actor John Krasinski and known for embracing comedy in The Devil Wears Prada, The Five-Year Engagement and Into the Woods said that she wanted the challenge of portraying something darker. “It’s just to do something else and something incredibly damaged and unsettling,” the actress said on the train track-themed carpet at the film’s London premiere on Tuesday.