Emily Blunt heaped praise on her husband John Krasinski as she picked up her first Screen Actors Guild award in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The Brit claimed the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role gong for A Quiet Place, which her husband wrote, directed and starred in, and she insisted on sharing the high honor with him.
“The entire experience of doing this with you has completely pierced my heart directly,” she said during her acceptance speech at the Shrine Auditorium. “You are a stunning filmmaker. I am so lucky to be with you and to have done this film with you.
“Thank you for giving me the part; you would have been in major trouble if you hadn’t, so you didn’t really have an option.”
Backstage, the Mary Poppins Returns star was still gushing about her man, stating: “My favorite thing about shooting A Quiet Place was for sure working with John. We’d never done it before, and it is kind of the great unknown, going into this process, not knowing what it’s going to be.
“A lot of people were like, ‘You’re going to be divorced by the end of it’, but actually we’re so much closer. I think the discovery of how well we collaborated and how well we can create something together is just so special.”
John was spotted giving Emily a solo standing ovation as she was announced as the surprise winner of the gong, and looked stunned as his wife’s name was announced.
But the actress was oblivious to her spouse’s somewhat extreme reaction, which quickly went viral.
“I think he probably was as shocked as I was because it was very unexpected,” she told reporters backstage. “(It was) certainly not something I had planned for. I was pretty blown away.”
“I’m also completely blind without my glasses so his face was a bit of a blur for me.”