Emily Blunt

“It's w-oH-ter. No it's w-aAh-ter”: Emily Blunt Absolutely Despised Her Kid Sounding Too American Like John Krasinski, Forgetting British Accent. by.

In an old interview with Good Morning America, the Mary Poppins Returns star talked about the same as she remarked how she and Krasinski wanted to raise their kids more as parents and less as famous celebrities. Blunt and Krasinski rarely put their daughters in the middle of the spotlight and have always been more inclined towards raising them privately. Since the family had been residing in Brooklyn for most of their time, it wasn’t too bewildering for their kids to catch an American accent. While the Edge of Tomorrow star loves her husband to no end, she isn’t too thrilled when it comes to their daughters picking up their father’s accent instead of hers. “Well, Hazel had my accent for a really long time and would say things like ‘wohter,’ which I was really proud of. With one British parent and one American though, the kids’ accents are bound to fluctuate every now and then.