Fun Times With Emily Blunt & James Corden of Disney's Into The Woods! #IntoTheWoodsEvent

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I recently had the fantastic time of chatting with Emily Blunt and James Corden who play the Baker and his Wife in the Disney adaptation of the fabulous Musical “Into The Woods.” If you haven’t seen it, you need to run out and see it now as it is fantastic.

Emily and James were an absolute delight and beyond hilarious. This duo should have their own comedy act they are so funny. We chatted about everything from parenting to my iPhone case as you can see below Emily is admiring my Shop Bando “I Am Very Busy” case.

Sorry for the pixelated quality of the photos, but if the photos say anything is that these two are great friends and have great chemistry together. We started off the interview by asking Emily about how was it like to be 7 months pregnant and shooting this film.

EMILY:

Well, it’s funny because I found out I was having a baby when I found out I had the part, but I was thinking well, she’s the baker’s wife, so it doesn’t matter if I gain a few pounds. And also it’s singing and it’s lovely, and it’s easy. I forgot how much running around this woman does in the woods. Like I body slam into Anna Kendrick like a linebacker, and she’s a tiny person. I almost killed her. And you know, yanking Rapunzel’s hair out. She’s always running and we’re always rushing. And so it was interesting. There was a chair onset that was written on it, Emily Bunt’s pregnancy chair. I often found Chris Pine sitting in it. I stood over him, several months pregnant and he went oh do you wanna sit down, and I’m like, yes, I do.

JAMES:

He’s just like looking up at her from the chair and saying , god, I’m tired.

They play bakers in the film and the bread looked delicious. We of course wanted to know if they tried any of the bread and did they make any bread.

EMILY:

We made some bread.

JAMES:

Yeah we had a bread making session. We had these bakers come in. This is what they do on films. They go, well, we should teach you how to bake. And it’s, like, four hours of learning to bake and none of it’s in the film. An absolute waste of everybody’s time. I mean, it couldn’t have been more a waste of time and money. I mean, the guy’s really, you know kneading and the folding and teaching us how to make bread. I took my bread home and cooked it, and it was delicious.

EMILY:

My mom loved it.

JAMES:

Oh my god. It was amazing.

EMILY:

It was good.

JAMES:

Phenomenal.

The witty banter between these two is amazing. A lot of the film is about parenting methods and what happens when they go wrong, We of course wanted to know that after making this film had it influenced how they parent and what not to do at all?

EMILY:

It’s interesting. I hadn’t thought of that, actually.

JAMES:

I think there’s an honesty in the film which has made me want to be more honest with my children, like, from the get-go to- I think what’s, you know, the message in the film- the great message in the film of, like, be careful what wish for, and sometimes the very thing you wish for is not the thing that you need in a world where we seem to have told children that this happily ever after does exist, and we all know it doesn’t. And I feel like that’s not to say you won’t be happy, but like that song, No One is Alone, which at the end of the film, I sort of feel like what that song is saying is there’s some screw-ups coming your way and that’s true of all of us. There’s screw-ups and they’re coming for you and there’s nothing you can do about it. But when they do, you might feel like you’re completely on your own in the world and you’re not. And you never will be. And these things are just part of your life and what ultimately make you better and stronger. And it has made me think that that’s a positive message to tell your children, that mistakes are gonna happen.

EMILY:

And also you know children. No one is more perceptive than a child. They see everything, they’re like little sponges, they pick up everything, even babies. I’ve noticed, they pick up on your energy. If someone walks in the house that Hazel hasn’t met before and they’ve had a bad day, she doesn’t want to go to them. She doesn’t want to be around them, you know. And so even from a young age, they’re so perceptive. I just feel that it’s important to teach your children that life is not always going to be easy, you know, and that is what this film is about. Nobody goes through life unscathed. Nobody does. And actually, these fairy tales, the original fairy tales really were sort of saying that. Obviously children can’t understand the deep metaphorical meanings in these fairy tales, but they understand right and wrong, and they understand the need to make decisions, and they understand what happens when people behave badly, they get a comeuppance. You know, it’s that sort of thing that these fairy tales, I think, were created to teach children about life. To warn them about life. And we’re sort of in a society where we like to coddle our children and over-tend, over-parent, over-this- there’s like ten thousand books on how to raise a kid nowadays and it’s purely instinctual. It’s purely personal, you know. I saw this thing that there are books on how to Raise a Gluten-Free Baby. How to Raise..

JAMES:

In my defense, when I wrote that…

EMILY:

How to Raise a Scientific Baby.

JAMES:

I don’t even know what gluten is!

EMILY:

I know, but we get into it, and no one even knows, really. It’s something. It’s a thing.

Since they have such great chemistry on screen and off screen we had to know if they knew each other before making this film together. And of course they did!

EMILY:

We knew each other, actually, I’ve known James for, like, eight/nine years almost? We met at a polo match in England. The princes were there!

JAMES:

Which is Harry and William in case you didn’t know.

EMILY:

Harry and William. We met them…

JAMES:

Have you ever hear of a more British story…

EMILY:

Yeah. And we were at a polo match.

JAMES:

We met there…

EMILY:

And we really got along and we had too much to drink, and we sang…

JAMES:

Something Stupid.

EMILY:

Something Stupid by Frank Sinatra. He’s the only person I’ve ever sung in front of…

JAMES:

Yeah, we were getting on great.

EMILY:

And so it was nice. When I heard it was him playing the baker. I remember Rob Marshall telling me that I had the part and I said, who’s the baker? And he went, it’s James Corden. And I went, oh my god. I was so relieved and so thrilled because I knew that this couple needed to have real lifelong, shorthand chemistry. An ease with each other and you needed to believe in them. You needed to believe that they’ve been together forever. They were probably the only option they had in the village that they grew up in, and these are small-town folk.

JAMES:

Okay? There’s never not options if you’re rocking this.

James points to his body as if he’s the sexiest man alive. It was hilarious!

EMILY:

This is the thing he’s going on about that he said the whole time we were shooting this is a fairytale movie. A lot of fantasy stuff happens, and the audience goes with it. The only thing that this audience won’t understand is why she’d leave this (She points at James) for Chris Pine.

JAMES:

No one, no one would believe that, you know what I mean?

EMILY:

He said to Rob, they’re not gonna go with you on this, Rob.

JAMES:

The people will be just like, oh, come on. No woman on earth leaves Brad Pitt for… who’s someone, I don’t know. I’m trying to think of someone without being offensive.

We finished the interview off by asking if they could wish for anything, what would they wish for?

EMILY:

It does become about your children, doesn’t it?

We throw out Sleep as maybe something they wish for after having kids?

EMILY:

Sleep Right!

JAMES:

There’s a pair of shoes I’m really interested…No, you just want the people you love, to be healthy, right?

EMILY:

Healthy and happy. That’s it.

JAMES:

That’s all. It sounds so sort of trite in so many ways, but I don’t think there’s anything else that you could really, you know.

After the interview they were kind enough to take some pictures with us. The first one is me lying across their laps as James made me do it! That’s what happens when you’re having a blast together.

But of course we had to take a respectable PG picture as well, because obviously crazy things like laying across Emily Blunt and James Corden’s lap doesn’t happen during interviews. No never! What happens in the woods stays in the woods!