Ella Taylor checks in with Emily Blunt, the twenty-six-year-old English actress who's covered a remarkable stretch of ground since her attention-getting performance as a seductive, callous rich girl who draws a lonely, working-class girl (Natalie Press) into her silken web in 2004's My Summer of Love. As Taylor points out, those with an aversion to stories of star-crossed adolescent lesbian attachments--they probably hate raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, too--had to wait to discover Blunt when her "tightly wound turn as Meryl Streep’s groveling girl Friday all but stole The Devil Wears Prada from Anne Hathaway." (In this sentence, "all but stole" is apparently a nice way of saying, "Oh, was Anne Hathaway in that movie too?")

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