Emily Blunt Had Stutter

25 November 2009

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Emily Blunt used to have a stutter.

The 'Young Victoria' actress suffered from the speech impediment while growing up and admits she used to be reluctant to speak as a teenager.

She said in an interview with New York Times magazine: "Because I couldn't talk very much, I watched the world go by more closely."

dance boot camp for her role as a ballerina in new movie 'The Adjustment Bureau', in which she stars alongside Matt Damon.She recently said:

Rather than let her stutter get the better of her, Emily improved her speech by listening to the different accents of the people in her acting class.

She said: "I've always been fascinated by accents, and the way people speak, and the intonations of it, and that was because I found it so hard to speak in my own voice."

Emily, 26, doesn't shy away from self-improvement. She went to "dance boot camp" for her role as a ballerina in new movie 'The Adjustment Bureau', in which she stars alongside Matt Damon.

She recently said: "I'm going to dance boot camp. I'll never be at the same standard as a professional, but hopefully I'll be able to do a little bit.

"I didn't do ballet when I was a child. I gave it up in some sort of bratty rage, claiming it hurt my feet."

'The Adjustment Bureau', which also stars Anthony Mackie, is a sci-fi thriller which sees Matt's congressman character thrown into turmoil by the arrival into his life of Emily's dancer character.

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