Emily Blunt says there is pressure on women to be 'warm and likeable'

Oppenheimer star Emily Blunt insists there is pressure on women to be ‘warm and likeable’ while men aren’t ‘held to the same standard’ as she hits out at inequality

Emily Blunt has hit out at inequality between the sexes.

In a new interview, the actress, 40, insisted there is pressure on women to be ‘warm and likeable’, while men are not ‘held to the same standard.’

Emily also explained how women are ‘considered too ambitious or emotional’ when vigorously voicing their opinion.

The Oppenheimer star has an impressive CV of starring roles, including playing a bitchy assistant in The Devil Wears Prada; an FBI agent in Sicario, a survival trainer in Edge of Tomorrow; and a vindictive mother in The English.

Of female actors, Emily told The Guardian: ‘I think there is still a pressure to be likeable, and sort of warm and understood, and men are not held to that same standard. No one cared if Leonardo DiCaprio was likeable in The Wolf of Wall Street.’

How it is: Emily Blunt, 40, has hit out at inequality between the sexes as she insisted there is pressure on women to be ‘warm and likeable’, but men are not ‘held to the same standard’

Real talk: The actress also explained how women are ‘considered too ambitious or emotional’ when vigorously voicing their opinion

Talented: Emily has an impressive CV of roles, including playing a bitchy assistant in The Devil Wears Prada (pictured); an FBI agent in Sicario, and a vindictive mother in The English

Asked if women are more forthright, the actress explained: ‘Yes, but I could equally generalise and say a lot of women tend to try to dance around things because we’re not often given a platform to speak honestly.

‘Or you’re considered too ambitious or emotional if someone appears to be speaking their mind with spirited opinion.’ 

Elsewhere in the interview, Emily – who is mother to daughters, Hazel, nine, and Violet, six, with her actor husband John Krasinski – cleared up some recent comments.

After revealing she would be taking a year off from acting to spend time with her family, Emily reassured fans: ‘I’m not quitting Hollywood. It’s OK, guys. Just taking a little bit of downtime.’ 

Emily – who was spotted recently at the Paris premiere of her new film Oppenheimer – didn’t specify when the break started when she initially told the Table for Two podcast of the hiatus.

She said: ‘This year, I’m not working. I worked quite a bit last year and my oldest baby is nine, so we’re in the last year of single digits.

‘And I just feel [like] there are cornerstones to their day that are so important when they’re little. And it’s, ”Will you wake me up? Will you take me to school? Will you pick me up? Will you put me to bed?”

‘And I just need to be there for all of them for a good stretch. And I just felt that in my bones.

Oh! ‘No one cared if Leonardo DiCaprio was likeable in The Wolf of Wall Street,’ said Emily

In her new movie Oppenheimer, Emily plays Kitty Puening, a botanist and one-time US Communist party campaigner whose last of four husbands was Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy.

The actress will next be seen in Pain Hustlers, starring alongside Chris Evans and Andy Garcia and Catherine O’Hara.

She also stars in The Fall Guy – currently in post-production – a film adaptation of the 1980s hit TV series, starring alongside Ryan Gosling.

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