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Published 12:15 03 Dec 2018 GMT
While Jim and Pam were one of the best TV couples in The Office, John Krasinski's real-life relationship is a firm competitor. Krasinski and fellow actor Emily Blunt have been dating since 2008, became engaged in 2009, and married in a private ceremony in 2010 in Italy. Since then, the couple have had two daughters together, Hazel in 2014 and Violet in 2016, and earlier this year even starred as a couple looking out for their family in the horror movie A Quiet Place, which Krasinski also directed.
They seem to have a loving bond, which becomes especially clear when you hear how Krasinski talks about his wife.
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In an interview with Playboy in March this year, the actor spoke about how he fell in love with his wife. "I think my wife gets me," he said. "Not just to sound adorable, but the truth is she gets me more than anyone else has ever gotten me."
Not only was he a huge fan of her before they dated, but he even had a magazine with her on the cover, which he accidentally left out when she came over to his home once. However, Blunt was definitely not a fan of getting too starstruck with each other's acting talents:
"I remember being at my house and saying to her, 'So I just want to have this really honest conversation. I think you’re one of the best act—' I didn’t even get out 'actress'. She went, 'No, no, no, no!' very loud. We didn’t have that conversation again for a really long time, and it saved our relationship.
"[We] just looked at it as though we were two people who had fallen in love, rather than two Hollywood celebrities who’d met each other."
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If that wasn't adorable enough, wait until you hear how his wife and family impacts his work life. For Krasinski, family is "a non-negotiable thing," and he makes sure to make his work fit around seeing them.
While he was filming the Amazon series Jack Ryan in Montreal, Blunt was filming Mary Poppins Returns in London - but still he made sure to fly 6,000 miles to see her every single weekend.
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"So if I'm honest, I was shooting 6,000 miles away from them, and I flew back every single weekend," he told People Magazine. "So [the kids] were with [Emily], and we always set up a base, and I always want the base to be with their mom, and I’ll do the flight time."
Now that Mary Poppins returns is on its way to theatres soon, Krasinski was asked about it during an appearance he made on The Ellen Show. Getting to see his wife's movie early, he revealed that it only took him 25 minutes to go for the tissues - and once he got to them, he realised he didn't have enough to hold them back.
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"I blew through the tissue box in 20 minutes," he said. "I had to go to the napkins, and then when I ran out of the napkins, it was all sweater."
Hopefully Krasinski is right on the money with this one, and Blunt's Christmas movie wows us when it lands later this month.
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Published 10:00 28 Jan 2019 GMT
John Krasinski and Emily Blunt have been a power couple ever since they started dating in 2008, but, 10 years on, they had a monumental year together with the release of A Quiet Place. The pair got engaged in 2009, before they married in a private ceremony in Italy the following year. They now have two children together: Hazel, born in 2014, and Violet, born in 2016.
"I think my wife gets me. Not just to sound adorable, but the truth is she gets me more than anyone else has ever gotten me," Krasinski said in an interview with Playboy last year.
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Even a decade into the relationship, they're inseparable, with Krasinski revealing that he always puts work aside to make sure he can see his family. While he was filming the Jack Ryan series in Montreal, his wife was filming Mary Poppins Returns in London - so he flew 6,000 miles to see her every weekend during the shoots.
"So if I'm honest, I was shooting 6,000 miles away from them, and I flew back every single weekend," he told People Magazine. "So [the kids] were with [Emily], and we always set up a base, and I always want the base to be with their mom, and I’ll do the flight time."
He's clearly as passionate about his wife and her work as he could be, revealing on The Ellen Show in December that he was in floods of tears watching her in the Mary Poppins sequel. And, after Blunt's recent success at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night, he was clearly over the moon.
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When her name was read out by presenting actor Chris Pine, Blunt yelled "what" in shock while her husband, sat next to her, gave her an excited hug before loudly cheering her on as she made her way to the stage.
"I am going to share this completely with my husband John Krasinski because the entire experience of doing this with you has completely pierced my heart directly," she said in her acceptance speech.
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"You are a stunning filmmaker. I am so lucky to be with you and to have done this film with you. Thank you for giving me the part. You would have been in major trouble if you hadn’t. So you really didn’t have an option, but thank you."
Blunt had some tough competition in the category of 'Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role' that night, going up against fellow nominees Margot Robbie (Mary Queen of Scots), Emma Stone and Rachel Wise (both for The Favourite), and Amy Adams (Vice).
You can imagine her surprise, considering horror movies rarely get showered in awards, but it was also a huge win for both the actress and her husband. In A Quiet Place, they acted as on-screen husband and wife, attempting to raise a family just as they are in real life. And with her husband sharing a screenwriting credit and sitting in the director's chair, it clearly meant a lot to them.
Published 15:07 02 Aug 2018 GMT
Once upon a time, John Krasinski was working as a waiter in Los Angeles, on the verge of giving up acting. Three weeks later, he booked the part of Jim on the American version of The Office. The series ran for nine seasons, and fans desperately want it to come back. (John thinks it should return as a Christmas special.)
Some sitcom actors get pigeonholed as their old character, but John's had a lot of success. This summer, he directed and starred in the innovative thriller A Quiet Place, which got high praise from the master of horror, Stephen King. He also stars in Amazon's new action series, Jack Ryan, playing a part previously made famous by Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford. And, most notably, he's grown a serious director beard. He's grown up so much since Dunder Mifflin.
Also, people are obsessed with John's personal life, since he's married to the stunning actress Emily Blunt. Together, they have two kids, and are everyone's #CouplesGoals. (Sorry Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. You're old news!) Recently John regaled Playboy with the story of how they fell in love: "I think my wife gets me. Not just to sound adorable, but the truth is she gets me more than anyone else has ever gotten me."
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In a new interview with Men's Health, Jim opened up again about his relationship with the new Mary Poppins. After A Quiet Place was such a box office smash - shot for $17 million, making e $300 million worldwide - Jim told his wife that he was nervous about trying to follow it up. But Emily, who co-stars in the movie, gave him the perfect advice.
"I said to Emily, 'There’s no greater gift that the universe could have given me than to go through the biggest success of my career and I don’t have to explain to you how it felt.' We were both in the boat. I said to her, 'I don’t know if it can ever be like this again.'
"Leave it to Emily, who is better at everything than me—she goes, 'It can't.' She just so perfectly encapsulated it. She said, 'It can't be like this again, and it shouldn't. So take this and put it on a mantel, this really special treasure that we experienced together. And now go out and do something else.' I know I'll never do another movie that's this successful, this original, this underdog-y, and then on top of it have it be with my wife every step of the way."
Pretty great advice, right? You'll never be able to recreate the same experience again, so you might as well embrace creating new ones.
On a lighter note, the magazine asked John about his euphemisms for sex. He joked that he "propositioned" Emily in a very straight-forward manner: "Oh, man. I don’t know. I can’t go back that far. I think I call it ‘sex’ now, which makes me really sad. I think I actually propositioned my wife by saying, ‘Would you like to have sex tonight?’"
Maybe he's not too far from Jim Halpert after all.
Published 12:28 02 Mar 2018 GMT
John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are many people's #CoupleGoals. If they made a video playing with kittens, it would probably be so adorable that it would break the Internet and tear a hole in the space-time continuum. While Office fans may be bummed to see Jim cheating on Pam, they will make an exception for the new Mary Poppins (and future Captain Marvel).
In an interview with Playboy, John opened up about falling in love with Emily. Because that's why people read Playboy - for cute stories about how couples fell in love. I assume now all their photos of naked ladies are replaced by photos of couples holding hands in romantic gardens. "I think my wife gets me," said John. "Not just to sound adorable, but the truth is she gets me more than anyone else has ever gotten me."
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Before they started dating, John was a huge of fan of Emily as an actress. In fact, he even owned a magazine in which she was on the cover, and forgot it was sitting out in his living room when she came over. That's a little embarrassing, that still falls under the category of "cute." If, say, Emily had walked in a candlelit room where the walls were covered with her photos, that would have been creepy. It must be awkward for celebrities to date each other, when they're fans of each other. John said it was good to put the fangirling off for a while:
"I remember being at my house and saying to her, 'So I just want to have this really honest conversation. I think you’re one of the best act—' I didn’t even get out 'actress'. She went, 'No, no, no, no!' very loud. We didn’t have that conversation again for a really long time, and it saved our relationship...[We] just looked at it as though we were two people who had fallen in love, rather than two Hollywood celebrities who’d met each other."
Over the past year, the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have swept Hollywood, as several powerful industry figures have been exposed for disgusting acts of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct. Once all of the allegations blew up, John said he felt "terrible and borderline embarrassed" he hadn't asked his wife about it before. He said he didn't believe he can add to that conversation, but he believed wrong, because he went on to add something:
"Sexual harassment is the by-product of a system that failed women a long time ago...If you’re a male CEO and you don’t harass people, don’t pat yourself on the back. Get other people to be more like you. I think more people need to have the foregone-conclusion version of treating women equally. Women are treated equally rather than women should be treated equally."
Nice job, Halpert. We forgive you for cheating on Beesly.
Published 23:09 04 Sep 2018 GMT
Every relationship requires commitment, and John Krasinski is setting the bar high. The actor, best known as Jim from The Office, is married to Emily Blunt and together they have two daughters - 4-year-old Hazel and 2-year-old Violet. On John's critically acclaimed horror film A Quiet Place, the couple got to work together, but that's usually not the case. Both stars have busy schedules, filming movies and TV shows on opposite sides of the world, which means putting family first can be difficult.
But just because something is difficult doesn't mean it's impossible. Recently John filmed the Amazon series Jack Ryan in Montreal, while Emily filmed the movie Mary Poppins Returns in London. But the couple didn't let these less than ideal circumstances keep them apart. Every weekend, John flew more than 6,000 miles, criss-crossing the ocean from Canada to England, to see his wife and kids.
"Family for me, it's a non-negotiable thing," John told People. "So if I'm honest, I was shooting 6,000 miles away from them, and I flew back every single weekend. ... So [the kids] were with [Emily], and we always set up a base, and I always want the base to be with their mom, and I’ll do the flight time."
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John admitted the commute was "brutal," but doesn't see any reason to complain. "We are all so lucky to be doing what we're doing [in show business]," he explained. "If there's one thing that's a bummer, it's that you spend time away from your kids. But guess what, a lot of people spend time away from their kids. So for me, I think we're all living in a fantasy camp. So I'm not going to be the first one to complain."
Viewers of TV shows and movies might not realize how much work goes into production. The hours for actors are often long, especially if they are the leads, carrying the show. In August, John's Jack Ryan co-star, Dina Shihabi, described his grueling schedule to People: "He would wrap [shooting] at like 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning, get on the next flight to London, and then come back Sunday night."
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Well, I guess John got a taste of this lifestyle during season nine of The Office. His character, Jim Halpert, started splitting his time between the Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, and his sports marketing company in Philadelphia. So, every week he'd drive about 250 miles, around-trip, to see his wife and kids. It was good practice!
It probably also helps that John and Emily are sooo in love. Last March, he told Playboy, "I think my wife gets me. Not just to sound adorable, but the truth is she gets me more than anyone else has ever gotten me." And last month, he shared her perfect career advice, plus how he 'propositions' her. You know what? I think these two are going to make it.
Published 12:01 20 Nov 2018 GMT
Emily Blunt has starred in a lot of great movies, from the clever sci-fi thriller Live Die Repeat to the terrifying horror film A Quiet Place (Shhhh!) Now she's starring in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel to the original classic that came out 54 years ago. Fighting a war, running from monsters, playing a magical nanny - is there anything Emily Blunt can't do? Yes. Date you. Because she's married to John Krasinski, aka 'Jim from The Office.'
Sadly, the stunning actress is taken, but it's okay to harbor a crush. Just be warned: If you're caught on camera flirting with her, Krasinski might call you out. Recently Hugh Jackman and Emily Blunt interviewed each other for Variety's feature, Actors on Actors. While appearing on the red carpet, they posed together for a photo, which the Wolverine actor shared on Twitter. "Had the pleasure of chatting with the amazing EMILY BLUNT today," wrote Jackman.
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It looks pretty innocent, right? Well, Krasinski replied to the tweet by uploading another picture of them from the red carpet. In this photo, the actors look much more cozy, with Jackman appearing to snuggle up to Blunt. Krasinski joked, "Eeeeeeasy Hugh... not sure this is what @Variety meant with #ActorsonActors... Don’t make me think I can hurt you."
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It's too bad that's not what Variety meant with "Actors on Actors," because that sounds like much more interesting series. And I don't know if the self-deprecating joke at the end works. Jackman hung up his adamantium claws, retiring as the Marvel superhero Wolverine. That means the 50-year-old actor has no obligation to stay in shape. Meanwhile, Krasinski, 39, is starring in Amazon's action series, Jack Ryan, and appears to be pretty jacked. Ten years ago, Jackman would win a fight against Krasinski any day, but now I'm not so sure.
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Anyway, Ryan Reynolds decided to weigh in on #CozyGate, because of course he did. The Deadpool star is one of the funniest celebrities on Twitter, and enjoys trolling Jackman. Recently the Greatest Showman actor celebrated 22 years of marriage, and shared a heartfelt tribute to his wife on Twitter. To which Reynolds responded, "I gave this 3 months. Tops. I was wrong." The Afterwards, Jackman clapped back by giving Reynolds advice on how to be sexy. And now Reynolds replied to Krasinski and Jackman's tweets, writing, "This is a call to action. This man must be stopped."
We might never get to see Hugh Jackman reprise his role as Wolverine to team up with Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool, or team up with John Krasinski's Jim Halpert from The Office. But at least we got to see an amusing interaction between them on Twitter, and that's just as good, right? No? I guess they need to make that crossover movie then.
Unfortunately, Emily Blunt is not on Twitter or Instagram, so we don't know what her response is. (I guess that's the only other thing she can't do: social media!)