“I just really enjoyed them – I really enjoyed her. They’d all been driven a bit mad by their isolation and loneliness. Blunt recalls how she found the farmers in the film “so funny and strange and odd. And so, I found the whole thing so touching because it reminded me of my family, and people I know and where I’m from.” “That makes a lot of sense to me, coming from England, where we’re sort of reluctant to say what we feel. “It resonated with me as well… I remember John Patrick Shanley said, ‘This is almost like a farce about a caution’ because of how cautious they are and how bad they are at expressing what they feel and what they mean,” says the Bafta-nominated star, known for her roles in The Girl On The Train, A Quiet Place, and The Devil Wears Prada.
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But will a series of losses and his own uncertainty that he is unlovable get in his way?Įlaborating on why the script was so different from anything Blunt had read before, she muses: “It’s almost like a long poem on how you can express love without ever saying ‘I love you’, and I just thought it was so magical and funny."Īlthough criticised for its storyline – writer Shanley adapted the script from his 2014 Broadway play Outside Mullingar, itself described as "mystifyingly awful" in an Irish Times review – and mocked for its accents upon release in the US late last year, Blunt is complimentary of the movie.
Stung by his father Tony’s (Christopher Walken) plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew Adam (Jon Hamm), the situation becomes more complicated when Adam comes to visit, because he is obviously interested in Rosemary.Īnthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams, with everything that’s important to him about to slip through his fingers. Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer – in fact, it seems that everyone in their farming community knows they are meant for each other, except him. Indeed, that’s where the problem lies for Rosemary. “They were just such unique, complicated, and really loveable characters who really needed each other for different reasons – and one of them could really see that and the other one couldn’t.” “And I think it’s easy to say this about work when you’re promoting it, that you’ve never read anything like it before, but I really hadn’t read anything like Wild Mountain Thyme before, and I think I speak for Emily when I say that too. “It had this other-worldly quality to it it’s this sort of heightened old-school, fairytale-esque romance,” notes Dornan, also aged 38, who's best known for his roles in Fifty Shades of Grey and The Siege of Jadotville and whose breakthrough role was arguably in hit Belfast-set crime series The Fall. The film sees London-born Blunt (38) play headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon she has her heart set on winning the affections of her neighbour Anthony Reilly – played by Holywood, Co Down, star Jamie Dornan – who she happens to have loved since they were 10 years old. Wild Mountain Thyme is a romantic drama written and directed by New Yorker John Patrick Shanley – who created the classic rom-com Moonstruck – and is set in the Co Mayo countryside. “UNIQUE and lyrical and beautiful” – that’s how Emily Blunt passionately describes her latest project.
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