Emily: Stutter made me a star

AS THE sharp-tongued fashion magazine assistant in the hit film The Devil Wears Prada, she was never short of a withering comment – but actress Emily Blunt, right, today tells how her childhood was marred by a stutter.

In an interview with The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine, Emily, 38, says: ‘Stutterers are some of the most courageous people because it’s such a minefield every time you open your mouth.’

Yet her stutter helped her to become an actress. ‘One of the ways I could speak normally was if I did a silly voice or an accent. It actually gave me a fluency I wasn’t otherwise capable of,’ she says. ‘It was the making of me, in many ways.’

Her portrayal of Emily Charlton in The Devil Wears Prada in 2006 catapulted her to fame. She has since starred in more than 40 films.