GOLDEN GLOBES CEREMONY Emily is the real life Mary Poppins
BRITISH stars are set for success at tonight’s Golden Globes. Olivia Colman, Emily Blunt, Rosamund Pike, Hugh Grant and Benedict Cumberbatch are up for wards. But what is going on behind the scenes? As the countdown begins, here is all the gossip from LA. MARY Poppins Returns star Emily Blunt has been working her magic to change lives off-screen too.
The actress, 35, has been helping children with speech problems by opening up about the stutter she has battled with.
She hopes sharing her story and showing how she has gone on to become a Hollywood A-lister will give other sufferers hope.
Emily said: “I work a lot with kids and adults who stutter. It’s hard when you’re in the thick of it, you think it’s going to be your whole life and it doesn’t have to be.
“It is a condition people tease you about because you sound funny and you look funny when you
stutter. You try to force words out, t, so everything contorts. You can look like a crazy person. Mine was not so bad when I was younger. By the time I was as
12 or 13, it was probably at its peak. k.
“One time I walked away from a teacher because I couldn’t say I needed to go to the bathroom. I wrote down that I had to go and I couldn’t tell her. She felt quite bad.
“If you get the right treatment, it’s very temporary. You can manage it. You just need the right help.” p.”
In long-awaited sequel Mary Poppins pins Returns, Em Emily takes on the role as the magical nanny pl played by Julie Andrews s in 1964.
But the star, married to actor or John Krasinski, 3 39, almost refused to try ry acting as her stutter stut wrecked her confidence idence – until a tea teacher spotted her potential. ntial.
Emily s said: “I think a lot of it t was to do with th this extraordinary teacher her who encouraged encoura me to do a class play. lay.
“I said said, ‘I don’t want to,’ and he said, ‘I think you’ you’re funny and I think that hat you are very good goo at voices. You don’t stutter when you do a silly voice, so why don’t n’t you do a silly accent ac or something?’
“That’s “Th probably why I’ve always been be fascinated by changing ng my voice vo depending on the role. It was a way of unlocking g me.
“I have to credit him m as somebody who’s not ot a stutterer for understanding ding the t i dea of removing ving yourself yo from yourself so o you can ca speak fluently.
“And it was one of the he first times ti doing a stupid Northern orthern English accent I could ld speak fluently.”