Emily Blunt on Dwayne Johnson: We became very fast friends

Los Angeles, Sep 9 (IANS) Actress Emily Blunt said that she and Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson became “very fast friends” and revealed that she was shocked to discover that he is so "contemplative".

The 42-year-old actress, who first worked with the wrestler-turned-actor on 2021's “Jungle Cruise”, said at the Toronto International Film Festival: "We just became very fast friends, like an immediate secret language, which I think you feel with certain people that you work with."

Blunt said that Johnson was totally different to how she imagined him to be.

The actress, who has reunited with Dwayne to star in The Smashing Machine, said: "We just talked and shared our souls. And I was just really taken by, I guess, how different he was from what I had imagined.”

“He was so gentle and quite interior and sort of contemplative and kind, just easy. Like, so lovely to be around, funny and quick, all these qualities."

Johnson also heaped praise on his co-star, describing Emily as one of his "best friends," reports femalefirst.co.uk.

He said: "I also want to give Emily her flowers too. She is one of the greatest actors of our time — of all time. And also one of my best friends. In order to go to the place we were going to go, you have to have love, and then you have to have trust. And the love and the trust then allow for vulnerability. We could not have done that without this love and trust and vulnerability that we have."

Blunt shared an on-screen kiss with Johnson in Jungle Cruise, but the actress previously insisted that John Krasinski, her husband, is "immune" to her steamy love scenes.

Asked how he felt about her on-screen kiss with The Rock in Jungle Cruise, Emily told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: "Honestly, John is so used to me having to make out with other men. He’s immune to it at this point. That was part of the deal when we got married!"

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