John Krasinski spoke about his upcoming movie, A Quiet Place 2, where he revealed he put his marriage to Emily Blunt on the line for the bus scene. Emily did her own stunts for it, and he praised her courage.
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John Krasinski starred in the first A Quiet Place alongside his wife Emily Blunt. It was also the first time they worked together, and he was also the director. Which put a lot more pressure on him.
But John and Emily are one of Hollywood’s greatest couples, so they totally rocked it.
So after the success of the first movie, the studio granted a sequel.
SPOILER AHEAD FOR THE FIRST ONE
If you’ve seen the first A Quiet Place, you know that John’s character dies while trying to save his children. In the second, Emily’s character Evelyn and the kids go and try to find other people in the post-apocalyptic world.
The second movie, as seen in the trailers, also shows how the apocalypse began.
Speaking to CinemaBlend, John revealed that he put his marriage on the line for one scene scene.
John revealed that he had told Emily Blunt that the bus scene would be with Emily doing her own stunts. So it wasn’t going to be all special effects. Instead, the bus was actually driving towards her at 40 miles per hour.
“Emily’s (stunt) is so real, I think I put my marriage on the line when I put her in the car. That’s true. When I was explaining to her onset all of the things that were going to happen, and I said, ‘You’re going to hit this stuntman. That car’s going to come three feet from you. And then this bus is actually going to clock at 40 miles an hour,’ her face fell and she went, ‘But not really.’ And I went, ‘No, no, the bus is coming at you at 40 miles. That’s a real bus. And that bus hits that car, and all that is totally real.”
Of course, Emily did it. And nailed it in one take.
“Emily, God love her, she still got in the car, but there are little boys in the car. Marcus is in the car. There’s no switch. There’s no nothing. And to go to those parents and say, ‘I promise you the stunt, Paramount safety (and) the stunt guys, they have all okayed this. This is all possible.’ We had that bus within a hair’s breadth of being able to stop. It had all these special breaks so that we could stop real quick. So it’s three weeks of rehearsal for one minute of shooting.”
He continued:
“I said to Emily, ‘Do you want to run it once?’ And she’s awesome. She said, ‘No.’ She’s like, ‘Just put me in it.’ And so that take that’s in the movie is her first tale. So that’s her really saying ‘Jesus Christ’ and ‘Oh my God. Oh my God.’ Because she had no idea. It’s like going on the best rollercoaster ride of your life. That was the first take that we did.”
