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#TheEditMagazineJanuary2015

Emily Blunt on the cover of The Edit magazine Photographs by PAOLA KUDACKI

Jacket by Adam Lippes; earring by Fendi

Emily Blunt reunited with Streep (In Warrior Queen, her 2003 film debut, Meryl Streep describes her as “the best young actress I’ve worked with in some time – perhaps ever”.) and another previous co-star, James Corden, in Into the Woods, a much- anticipated Disney extravaganza that weaves together a series of fairy tales, with a cast list that rivals an Oscars’ attendance sheet. Blunt plays one of the few newly created characters, the baker’s wife at the heart of the composite story, a role that required her to test her musical skills.

Shirt and skirt by Erdem

Top by Hervé Léger; skirt by Lanvin

“I didn’t even want to audition for it because I find the thought of singing in front of people mortifying,” she confides. “I’d never even sung in front of my husband. I’d said no to going up for Mamma Mia! and Nine... All of those. So when my agent called me about Into the Woods, I said, ‘I can’t.’ I’d only ever sung at school concerts, and those days are long gone. I’m not Annie [Hathaway] – she’s got an unbelievable voice.”
On audition day, I went in and said, ‘Listen, I’m not good enough to just sit here shuffling music sheets around so I’ve learnt it and I’m just going to do it for you.’ I thought, if I don’t go all out, I’m going to look really stupid. So I did, and thank God he gave me the part because it actually ended up being one of the most life-enhancing experiences I’ve ever had. Because it’s exhilarating to do something that previously frightens you, and to get better and better and better and end up feeling confident enough to belt a song out.”

Top by MM6 Maison Martin Margiela; skirt by Marni

Top by Tibi; skirt by Temperley London; shoes by Jimmy Choo

On motherhood: “[Raising children] is such a fear-based industry,” says the actress. “There used to be one book that everyone read, now there’s How to Raise a Gluten-free Baby, How to Raise a Scientific Baby... It’s insanity! So I haven’t read anything, I’m just letting her do her own thing.”

Shirt by Tome; skirt by Missoni; shoes by Narciso Rodriguez; earring by Erickson Beamon

#VanityFairJanuary2015

Bradley Cooper’s Vanity Fair interview is about the making of American Sniper, a role that presented to be a huge challenge and preparing for his display on Broadway in the revival of The Elephant man.
Despite being nominated twice, Bradley is still not taking serious maybe because there has always been something effortless about his performances, a testament to how good he is, but also the feeling that he never quite bleeds for them. As the director and his close friend David O. Russell observed, Cooper is used to not being taken seriously. Whatever the reactions to his latest role, in American Sniper—directed by Clint Eastwood, a lack of seriousness will not be among them.

On getting older: “I see life much more gray as I get older. I was so sort of black-and-white in my late 20s. There’s right and there’s wrong and that’s it. That’s a tough way to live… It’s rare that I judge somebody, really rare. I think people feel that, so it’s sort of easy to get close to somebody if you don’t feel judged by them.”

On his past struggles, including addiction, and the wrenching loss of his father: “Losing someone close to me. Going through love and loss…knowing what’s important. Realizing that the bottom line is that all I got is me, so it’s about time to stop trying to be something that I think you would want me to be. Or that would give me what I think I need. As you get older, thank God, your body deteriorates, but your soul sort of flourishes.”

On transforming himself for the role [in "American Sniper"] the old-fashioned way, without the use of any stimulants: “I did it naturally because I’ve been sober for 10 years and didn’t want to do anything. I had a realistic conversation. Can I do this in three months naturally? Can I gain 30 pounds of fucking muscle? I didn’t know if I would be able to do it or not. Thank God—luckily — my fucking body reacted fast.”

He got those eyes from his father’s Irish roots. He is obviously good-looking, but at a certain point in his career he was told after an audition that those casting the role had found him “not fuckable” (only in Hollywood . . .). His looks do not exude carnal sex appeal. But, as Russell observed, they have enabled him to “look leading-man-ish in a little bit of a Gary Cooper way” but also to “look weird,” depending on the angle of the shot. Which has made the roles he has gotten, in particular under Russell—Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle—more than one-dimensional hunkfests.