Emily Blunt
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Emily Blunt is speaking out about a recently resurfaced video from a 2012 talk show appearance in which she can be heard using “insensitive” and “hurtful” language.
In the recently discovered YouTube clip from Britain’s Jonathan Ross Show, the Oppenheimer actress recalls eating at a restaurant while filming Looper in the US and then describes a waiter at the restaurant as “huge” .
Now, Blunt apologizes in a statement shared with People magazine. “I just have to address this head-on because when I watched this clip from 12 years ago my jaw was on the floor,” she wrote. “I’m appalled that I would say something so insensitive, hurtful, that has nothing to do with the story I wanted to tell on a talk show.”
Her statement continued: “I have always considered myself someone who would never dream of upsetting anyone. Whatever made me say something like that in that moment is unrecognizable to me or anything I stand for.” And yet it happened and I said it and I’m so sorry that it did hurt me. I was absolutely old enough to know better.”
In the video circulating online, Blunt can be heard talking to host Jonathan Ross about a time she had dinner at a Chili’s restaurant while filming the Rian Johnson-directed film. Ross further responds, “If you go to Chili’s, you can see why so many of our American friends are huge.”
Blunt added, “Well, the girl who served me was huge.” She also noted that the waiter recognized her when she was in the restaurant.
The Edge of Tomorrow actress starred alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Paul Dano in Looper, which was released in 2012.