AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — No. 1 Texas will start Arch Manning at quarterback Saturday against Louisiana-Monroe while regular starter Quinn Ewers continues to recover from a strained muscle in his abdomen, coach Steve Sarkisian said Thursday.
It will be the first career start for Manning, a second year freshman. He relieved Ewers in the second quarter last week against UTSA, and passed for four touchdowns and ran for another in a 56-7 Texas victory.
Manning is the son of Cooper Manning, the grandson of former NFL quarterback Archie Manning, and the nephew of Super Bowl-winning QBs Peyton and Eli Manning. He was one of the highest-rated recruits in the country coming out of high school after the 2022 season.
“Arch is more than capable,” of being the Texas starter, Sarkisian said. “I don’t think he has to focus on leading right now. I think he needs to focus on knowing what he’s supposed to do and do it at a high level.”
The Longhorns are No. 1 for the first time since 2008 and Saturday’s matchup with the Warhawks is Texas’ last game before the program starts its first SEC schedule against Mississippi State on Sept. 28.
“We feel like Quinn has made great strides … (but) I’m looking forward to his future as a player and also the future of this season for us, the longevity, and getting him one more week healthier for the long term, is good for us as we’re getting ready for SEC play,” Sarkisian said.
Ewers missed several games over the previous two seasons with shoulder and sternum injuries. Sarkisian insisted he will return as the starter when he is ready.
“He’s in really good spirits,” Sarkisian said of Ewers. “All the goals that we had for him coming into this season are still there for him. I think we have a national championship caliber team and he’s the quarterback of that team. We still have that in front of us to go do that.
“With some of the games we have coming up down the road, this guy’s going to be in New York for the Heisman, whether he wins it or not. He has the ability to be a top five NFL draft pick. … Saturday, him not playing in this game, is not going to impact those three things and the goals we set for him and he’s working toward.”
(MEMPHIS) -- A former Memphis police officer on trial in the beating death of Tyre Nichols texted photos of a bloodied Nichols to his then-girlfriend, she said Wednesday during testimony.
Brittany Leake, an officer with the Memphis Police Department (MPD) who used to date Demetrius Haley, said Haley texted her and one of her family members a photo of Nichols that showed the 29-year-old leaning against a police car, bleeding from his mouth, wearing a torn shirt, appearing dirty and with his eyes closed, according to WATN, the ABC affiliate in Memphis covering the case in the courtroom.
Haley is on trial along with Justin Smith and Tadarrius Bean, who were charged on Sept. 12, 2023, with violating Nichols' civil rights through excessive use of force, unlawful assault, failing to intervene in the assault and failing to render medical aid. These charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The officers have pleaded not guilty to all charges.
“I wasn’t offended, but it was difficult to look at,” Leake said, claiming she deleted the photo, according to WATN.
Leake said she told Haley that Nichols needed to go to the trauma center, according to WATN. She claimed Haley previously sent her other photos from his patrols, including pictures of a burned suspect. Leake testified that she has never sent photos from the job in her two years as an MPD officer because it is against department policy, according to WATN.
Prosecutors on Wednesday also called to the stand Jesse Guy, a former Memphis Fire Department paramedic who cared for Nichols on the scene and in the ambulance that transported him to St. Francis Hospital, according to WATN.
Guy said when he first arrived on the scene, an emergency medical technician (EMT) told him Nichols “just went out,” according to WATN. Guy claimed he heard one of the officers say Nichols took something.
Guy testified that Nichols was unresponsive, had head swelling, scratches and marks around his neck and blood spilling from his mouth, according to WATN.
“It’s time to go,” Guy told prosecutors he was thinking after Nichols had no pulse and was unresponsive to Narcan, an overdose reversal drug, according to WATN. “I felt like something was going on.”
Guy said he gave Nichols oxygen, intubated him, removed his wet clothes and attempted with no success to defibrillate his heart, according to WATN. After giving Nichols epinephrine, more oxygen and sodium bicarbonate, Guy said there was still no pulse.
“I was trying to save his life,” Guy said, according to WATN.
Guy claimed he decided Nichols must go to the closest hospital to get better care, according to WATN. By the time they arrived at St. Francis Hospital, the former paramedic said they were able to get Nichols’ heart beating again.
Guy noted that when he asked one of the officers involved in the encounter what happened, the officer responded with a sigh.
“Never mind,” Guy said he told the officer because the paramedic thought the policeman was going to give him “B.S.” according to WATN.
Guy said during cross-examination that EMTs on the scene when he arrived had not assessed Nichols and didn’t tell him much about Nichols’ health status, according to WATN.
When defense attorneys asked Guy about information he received from the EMTs who were already on site, Guy claimed that the EMTs told him they heard Nichols moan in response to one of the medics.
Michael Stengel, Haley’s attorney, asked Guy when he knew Nichols was going through a medical emergency, according to WATN.
“When I laid eyes on him,” Guy said.
Body-camera footage shows that Nichols fled after police pulled him over on Jan. 7, 2023, for allegedly driving recklessly, then shocked him with a Taser and pepper-sprayed him.
Officers allegedly then beat Nichols minutes later after tracking him down. Nichols, 29, died on Jan. 10, 2023. Footage shows the officers walking around, talking to each other as Nichols was injured and sitting on the ground. The incident triggered protests and calls for police reform.
Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis said she has been unable to substantiate that Nichols was driving recklessly.
The prosecution told ABC News last week that they will not have any statements until after the trial. The defense attorneys did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.
After the police encounter, Nichols was transferred to the hospital in critical condition. The medical examiner's official autopsy report for Nichols showed he "died of brain injuries from blunt force trauma," the district attorney's office told Nichols' family in May 2023.
Emmitt Martin III and Desmond Mills Jr., the two other officers who were also charged in this case, have pleaded guilty to some of the federal charges. Martin pleaded guilty to excessive force and failure to intervene, as well as conspiracy to witness tamper, according to court records. The other two charges will be dropped at sentencing, which has been scheduled for Dec. 5, according to the court records. Mills pleaded guilty to two of the four counts in the indictment -- excessive force and failing to intervene, as well as conspiring to cover up his use of unlawful force, according to the DOJ. The government said it will recommend a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison, based on the terms of Mills' plea agreement.
The five former officers charged in this case were all members of the Memphis Police Department SCORPION unit -- a crime suppression unit that was disbanded after Nichols' death. All of the officers were fired for violating MPD policies.
ABC News' Deena Zaru and Sabina Ghebremedhin contributed to this report.
TYLER – Keep Tyler Beautiful (KTyB) invites Tyler residents to bring their family and friends to help cleanup community parks during Park Service Day. This year, the event will be hosted at the Tyler Senior Center, 1915 Garden Valley Rd., on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Park Service Day is an event where each September volunteers take on beautification and restoration projects. This year’s projects includes giving the interior of the Senior Center a fresh coat of paint, updating the flower beds out front, building a retention wall at Fun Forest Park, repainting the safety signs and steps at the Fun Forest pool, and adding a mural to the restroom area. Continue reading Keep Tyler Beautiful hosts Park Service Day
(LONDON) -- A team of over ten vets – including specialist surgeons, anaesthetists, and animal keepers – have on Thursday performed what they described as a ground-breaking world-first surgery on a Rhino with a broken leg.
Amara is an almost 2-year old Southern white rhino whose home is the Knowsley Safari Park near Prescot, in northwestern England.
Vets say they performed a lengthy "world first medical procedure" on the Rhino, who had suffered a broken leg.
"Earlier this year, Amara began limping on her right front leg," Knowsley Safari Park told ABC News in a statement. "The Knowsley Safari team brought in specialist equine surgeons from the University of Liverpool to help with the diagnosis, where radiographs confirmed a fractured ulna."
The ulna -- also known as the ulnar bone -- is a long forearm bone that stretched from the elbow to the wrist in humans. For Rhinos, the Ulna is associated with the lower front leg of the animal.
The safari park says no records or documentation exists worldwide for this form of surgery, the team having to use expertise in treating horses with similar injuries to apply it to Amara for the groundbreaking surgery.
"Under anaesthesia in Amara's enclosure, the large team performed a lengthy operation, including key-hole surgery of Amara's wrist, in a procedure lasting five hours."
Dr. David Stack, senior lecturer in Equine Surgery at the University of Liverpool, says the surgery was "unlike they have experienced previously."
"Due to the unprecedented nature of the procedure, we didn't know how much room we would have to operate, or how much of the affected area we would be able to see," Stack said.
He added, "We were unsure if the cast would be strong enough and how Amara would cope with such a restriction on her limb. We hoped that she would accept it and that she would be able to move around, get down and, importantly, back up again but this was unchartered water."
The Zoo says Amara wore a full limb cast to support her leg and was kept in her enclosure to minimize her movement. The zoo says she is doing "well" with her treatment and wearing the cast, which is set to be removed in May, the zoo told ABC News.
Southern white rhinos are commonly found in savannahs of southern and eastern Africa. The species is today listed as 'near threatened' due to 'decades of rampant poaching' for Rhino horn, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
The zoo describes Amara as a Rhino known for her "boisterous play," a trait the zoo says is typical of her species.
"Treating Amara has been a truly ground-breaking veterinary journey incorporating many firsts which we will now document should another animal team encounter similar scenarios in the future, though we very much hope the notes are never needed," said Stack.
(NEW YORK) -- The Federal Reserve delivered a jumbo-sized rate cut this week in a move widely viewed as a declaration of victory over inflation and a signal of relief for borrowers.
Few areas of the economy welcomed the news more than the nation’s sluggish housing market, where high mortgage rates have largely shut out homebuyers.
Experts who spoke to ABC News cautioned that the rate cut would not deliver an immediate drop in mortgage rates or a loosening up of the housing market.
Mortgage rates had already dropped over recent months in anticipation of the rate cut, they said. They forecasted a gradual thaw in the market as homebuyers perk up and borrowing costs slowly decline.
“This is a harbinger of good times to come, but we’re not there yet,” Susan Wachter, a professor of real estate at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, told ABC News.
Here’s what to know about what the Fed’s rate cut means for mortgage rates and the housing market.
What does the Fed’s rate cut mean for mortgage rates?
The interest rate cut likely will not have a significant impact on mortgage rates over the short term, experts said. That’s because mortgage rates had already moved due to an expectation of this rate decision.
The average interest rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage stands at 6.09%, according to Freddie Mac data released on Thursday.
That figure has plummeted more than a percentage point since May. The average interest rate for a 30-year mortgage has dropped even further from a peak reached last October.
“Everybody has been talking about an expected drop in the Fed Funds rate,” Jessica Lautz, deputy chief economist and vice president of research at the National Association of Realtors, told ABC News. “The mortgage market heard that loud and clear.”
Initial evidence suggesting unchanged mortgage rates can be found in the yield on a 10-year Treasury bond, experts said.
Mortgage rates closely track the yield on a 10-year Treasury bond, or the amount paid to a bondholder annually. In the aftermath of the Fed’s rate cut on Wednesday, the yield on a 10-year Treasury bond ticked slightly upward, defying the nudge downward by the central bank.
“Ten-year rates are basically pricing in the effect of interest rates coming down,” Lu Liu, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, told ABC News.
Still, experts added, mortgage rates may gradually decline over the remainder of 2024 and the duration of 2025.
The Federal Open Market Committee, a policymaking body at the Fed, on Wednesday forecasted further interest rate cuts.
By the end of 2024, interest rates will fall nearly another half of a percentage point from their current level of between 4.75% and 5%, according to FOMC projections. Interest rates will drop another percentage point over the course of 2025, the projections indicated.
If interest rates track those projections, then mortgage rates may see some decline as investors gain confidence that falling interest rates will not hit a snag, experts said.
“By the end of 2025, we can expect mortgage rates to be in the 5% range,” Wachter said.
Lautz offered a slightly less optimistic assessment, predicting mortgage rates next year in the high 5% range.
Uncertainty about the path of mortgage rates remains significant, said Liu. “It’s always a little bit of wait and see,” Liu said.
Experts agreed, however, that mortgage rates would not return to levels of between 2% and 3% enjoyed by homebuyers as recently as 2021. Those rates came in response to aggressive rate cuts at the Fed in response to COVID-19.
“That was a very unusual environment,” Lautz said. “It’s very unlikely to happen.”
What does the Fed’s rate cut mean for the housing market?
Experts expect the housing market to eventually heat up. But they do not expect the interest rate cut to deliver a sudden jolt.
The housing market remains sluggish. Existing-home sales declined 2.5% in August compared to the previous month, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors on Thursday. The slowdown took place despite a significant decline in mortgage rates over that period.
The housing market will loosen up as low mortgage rates trickle through to homebuyers, and as those consumers proceed through the monthslong process of purchasing a home, experts said. The lower mortgage rates will also entice prospective buyers who previously balked at higher borrowing costs, they added.
Still, the current drop in mortgage rates may not rekindle the housing market, experts said, citing a phenomenon known as the "lock-in effect."
While mortgage rates have fallen, they remain well above the rates enjoyed by most current homeowners, who may be reluctant to put their homes on the market and risk a much higher rate on their next mortgage.
In turn, the market could continue to suffer from a lack of supply, making options limited and prices sticky. Over the coming months, however, the housing market could loosen up, experts said.
“Now with rates coming down, we may gradually see some people willing to give up lower rates, move and sell their houses,” Liu said. “Hopefully there will be a little more supply on the market, but prices aren’t likely to come down all that much.”
Lautz agreed, predicting better days ahead. “It’s a slow burn,” she said. “We should see a change in activity and more buyers able to afford the market.”
(WILMINGTON, Del.) -- The federal judge overseeing Hunter Biden's conviction in Delaware on gun charges agreed Thursday to push back his sentencing date three weeks, from Nov. 13 to Dec. 4, granting a request by President Joe Biden's son to allow more time for his attorneys to gather materials for his sentencing memorandum.
In their request this week to delay the sentencing, attorneys for Hunter Biden invoked the upcoming presidential election on Nov. 5 as one reason for the request.
"Several people who plan to submit letters to both Courts as part of sentencing memoranda for Mr. Biden are short of time because they are presently involved in government work and travel with the current Administration, or are involved in the 2024 presidential campaign," attorneys for Hunter Biden wrote.
Attorneys for Hunter Biden also suggested that they may have "in-person witnesses" prepared to testify on his behalf, including some who "may not be available until after November 5 and the events that could occur right after that date."
Prosecutors in special counsel David Weiss' office had opposed the motion to reschedule sentencing.
Hunter Biden was found guilty in June on three felony counts related to his purchase of a firearm in 2018 while allegedly addicted to drugs.
Earlier this month, in a separate case, he pleaded guilty to nine federal tax-related charges in Los Angeles, where he is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 16.
(NEW YORK) -- Second gentleman Doug Emhoff blasted remarks made by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said Vice President Kamala Harris "doesn't have anything to keep her humble" because she does not have biological children.
"We know that all parents, no matter how you become one, make the same sacrifices and revel in the same joys of raising children as any parent anywhere," Emhoff defended his wife while speaking at a campaign event in Brooklyn, New York, Wednesday evening.
"As if keeping women humble, whether you have children or not, is something we should strive for. It is not," the second gentleman said. "Women in this country will never humble themselves before Donald Trump."
Emhoff referred to Sanders' comment as "unbelievable," and he expressed his appreciation for his wife, ex-wife Kerstin Emhoff, and their "big, beautiful, blessed family."
Harris is the stepmom to Cole and Ella Emhoff, her husband's children from his first marriage.
Kerstin Emhoff jumped to Harris' defense as well, responding to a video of Sanders on X.
"Kamala Harris has spent her entire career working for the people, ALL families. That keeps you pretty humble," she wrote Tuesday.
Sanders had been speaking at a Michigan town hall with former President Donald Trump on Tuesday when she made the comments. "So my kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble," she said.
During a visit Wednesday to a Bitcoin bar in Greenwich Village, New York, Trump was asked about Sanders' remarks and whether Harris should be attacked for not having biological children.
"Well, I just don't know what I think about it, you know," Trump said during the event.
Ohio Sen. JD Vance previously commented on Harris and other women for not having children with his well-known "childless cat ladies" comment.
In the 2021 clip, which only recently resurfaced, Vance accused Harris and the Democrats of being "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too."
There has been much backlash to Vance's remark, and some have even made mocked the comment by making it their own. Most famously, Taylor Swift signed her endorsement for Harris as a "childless cat lady."
ABC News' Will McDuffie, Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow, and Chris Donovan contributed to this report.
The actor, who made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Bucky Barnes in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger, teased his next movie in the long-running film series and shut down those who want to "pick on" the franchise in a new interview with Variety, published Thursday.
"It's become really convenient to pick on [Marvel films]," he told the outlet. "And that's fine. Everyone's got an opinion."
"But they're a big part of what contributes to this business and allows us to have smaller movies as well," he continued. "This is an artery traveling through the system of this entire machinery that's Hollywood. It feeds in so many more ways than people acknowledge."
Stan said he gets "protective" of the franchise "because the intention is really f****** good."
He added, "It's just f****** hard to make a good movie over and over again."
Stan will star in Thunderbolts* next summer, in which he leads a ragtag group of heroes — many of them reformed villains — including Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell and Hannah John-Kamen.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus also reprises in the film.
Stan says the movie is "kind of like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," describing both of them as being about "a guy coming into this group that was chaotic and degenerate, and somehow finding a way to unite them."
With Stan playing Barnes aka The Winter Soldier across numerous movies and even a TV series, the actor is "constantly ... challenging" himself.
As proof, he's in two of the year's buzziest films heading into awards season: A Different Man, out Sept. 20, and The Apprentice, out Oct. 11.
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Amazon's Prime Video platform has signed Jamie Lee Curtis and Nicole Kidman to two seasons of an adaptation of bestselling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell's beloved Kay Scarpetta book series.
Ariana DeBose has also been added to the cast, along with The Irishman's Bobby Cannavale and Simon Baker.
As reported back in February, Curtis and her Comet Pictures company had been itching to adapt Cornwell's work and teamed up with another fan — Kidman — and her Blossom Films company to have her co-produce and star as Cornwell's famed forensic pathologist.
Curtis will play another main character in the two-dozen-strong book series, Kay's sister Dorothy, while DeBose will appear as Lucy Farinelli-Watson, Dorothy's daughter.
In the announcement, Curtis said in part, "I have wanted to bring Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpettato a screen ... for a while," noting, "I'm particularly excited that Nicole Kidman will finally bring her to life."
She added, "I know the ardent fans of the books will be very happy, and the new audience will be compelled by the characters, crimes, and mysteries that are the trifecta of Patricia's masterful storytelling." Curtis ended with a warning: "There WILL be BLOOD."
Kidman said her desire to adapt Cornwell's "epic and thrilling books" goes back "nearly 20 years," expressing her excitement to "unite with the formidable Jamie Lee Curtis."
Kidman added the project "feels like it was meant to be."
"I cannot wait to inhabit Kay Scarpetta and am so thankful to Patricia Cornwell for entrusting me with her," Kidman said.
SMITH COUNTY, Texas – The arrest documents of a Tyler man who led deputies on a motorcycle chase Tuesday morning depict an aggravated robbery days before. According to our news partner KETK, 34-year-old Charles Griffith was arrested after evading deputies and on an active warrant. Police were called to a home on Highway 271 where the caller claimed multiple men broke into her house, and Griffith pointed it at her. The other people attempted to steal her TV. The following Tuesday, authorities began pursuing Griffith while on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. An affidavit reported he even went into oncoming traffic to avoid police. After an on-foot chase, police were able to detain Griffith and find a digital scale, a medical vial, a pill bottle with three white pills inside, a water bottle, blue candy, a wallet, a pink lighter, a rubber hose and a plastic bag with 120 grams of methamphetamine in a backpack. Griffith was booked into the Smith County Jail and charged for aggravated robbery, evading arrest with a vehicle and manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance. He is being held on a combined bond of $1,850,000.
As part of its Geeked Week festivities, Netflix has teased the star-studded seventh installment of its out-there sci-fi anthology Black Mirror.
Paul Giamatti and Jesse Plemons will be featured, as will Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae and Emma Corrin, the latter of whom played the heavy in the blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine.
Also appearing will be Peter Capaldi, Awkwafina, Milanka Brooks, Patsy Ferran, Cristin Milioti and Chris O'Dowd, among others.
The streaming service teases that one of the six new episodes will revisit the Star Trek-like season 4 opener "USS Callister."
This time around, Plemons plays Robert Daly, "a brilliant but troubled" video game programmer who is so "unhappy with a perceived lack of recognition at his gaming company [he] creates a simulated reality within the game."
Netflix says Daly gives himself "the role of a Captain Kirk–like figure aboard a starship ... leading an adoring crew — based on his real-life co-workers — on zany sci-fi adventures."
"Of course, because this is Black Mirror, things take an unexpected and sinister turn," Netflix continues.
Other episodes for the 2025 season are still under wraps.
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Francis Ford Coppola's star-studded, mostly self-funded, pet project Megalopolis can't seem to avoid controversy regarding its reviews.
While he has said he didn't know how possibly AI-generated fake reviews ended up on a now-deleted trailer for his movie, this latest hiccup literally has his name on it.
Megalopolis now appears on the film enthusiast social media platform Letterboxd, and its user reviews are as mixed as pro critics' critiques have been — however, among those cineastes who gave the movie a five-star review is apparently one Francis Ford Coppola.
The filmmaker didn't elaborate on the project, for which he's spent decades and a fortune of his own money to get to theaters.
One user of the platform wasn't nearly as kind, snarking Megalopolis "is to Coppola what This Is Me Now…is to J.Lo."
Ouch.
Incidentally, also among Coppola's few Letterboxd recommendations are The Last Showgirl — the Pamela Anderson film that happens to be directed by his granddaughter Gia, and which has been getting legitimately glowing reviews; 2023's The Good Half, directed by Robert Schwartzman, who is Coppola's nephew; and Between The Temples, a 2024 film starring his other nephew — and Schwartzman's brother — Jason.
In an interview with BritishVogue, Pugh — who in recent years starred in Marvel's Black Widow and Hawkeye; Oppenheimer; Dune: Part Two; Marvel's Thunderbolts; and the forthcoming drama We Live in Time with Andrew Garfield — confessed she needed a break.
"It was the first time ever in my career when I've actually asked for a summer break," she tells the magazine. "I'm an absolute work maniac, [but] I [could] see I'm exhausted."
She adds, "I suddenly woke up last year and I was like, 'I hate how much of my life I've missed.' Yes, I want to have a career forever, but that's not going to happen if I work myself into the ground."
She's back at work now, promoting We Live in Time, an out-of-order romance drama with Garfield, who calls his love interest an "incredibly accessible actor" who boasts that "extra mysterious factor that can't be named."
Pugh says apart from her career aspirations, family is "always" on her mind. "I’ve always been thinking about starting a family. I've wanted to have kids since I was a child myself. I love the idea of a big family."
She adds, "I love kids. I love hanging out with kids. If ever there’s a dinner party, I go straight to the kids to chat to them. So much easier. I love the honesty. I love how bored they can get. I've never stopped knowing that I want to have kids. It's just figuring out when."
We Live in Time, from Oscar-winning indie studio A24, opens Sept. 7.
Emily Blunt is looking back on some of the biggest roles of her career.
The actress, who was nominated earlier this year for her first Academy Award for her performance in the 2023 blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer, sat down with Good Morning America to chat about the beloved The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and the scary A Quiet Place (2018).
Reflecting on her first day of shooting The Devil Wears Prada, Blunt called it a "nerve-racking" experience because "it was my first big movie and I didn't know what to expect."
"I remember how kind Annie Hathaway was to me," she recalled of her co-star, AnneHathaway.
"And David Frankel, the director, created such a fun environment," she added. "You could improv, you could chuck in a thing you wanted in there, and there were no mistakes."
One thing she said stuck out to her about her first day on set was how she "fell practically on Meryl Streep" during a scene that required her to run down a corridor in high heels, which she admitted she is "not very good at walking in."
"I just fell over, clipboard and all, just clattering to the floor," she said, recalling how her co-star didn't break character.
Fast-forward 12 years later and Blunt found herself diving into a new genre -- horror -- by starring alongside husband John Krasinski in A Quiet Place, which Krasinski also directed.
She quickly learned "how tiring it is to be constantly hyperventilating and terrified." But Blunt said watching Krasinski direct his first film showed her a new side of him.
"You kind of see that your partner kind of has a superpower you didn't know they had," she gushed. "It was really extraordinary to build that together."
