When you sign on to play Mary Poppins, you've got to know you'll be spending some time in the air which became a bit of an issue for Emily Blunt.
Talking to ET, Blunt revealed the one moment she was a little bit terrified when filming Mary Poppins Returns. When she was replicating the iconic flying with an umbrella scene, her overriding view was "whether I thought I was going to die... 50 feet in the air".
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"I'm not amazing with heights and it was one of those things where they kind of winch you up there and there's the moment before they bring you down for the shot, and it just seems like that moment extends to forever time frame," Blunt recalled.
She added that instead of looking down at co-star Lin-Manuel Miranda while she was "higher than the trees", she just spent the time keeping her head up – and we can't exactly blame her as we'd be a bit terrified.
(Of the heights that is, not Lin-Manuel.)
The magical first trailer for Mary Poppins Returns landed during the Oscars, putting our minds at ease that the sequel can recapture the majesty and whimsy of the original Disney classic.
It didn't give us much in terms of plot though, but we know that the movie takes place 20 years after the magical nanny bid farewell to the Banks children, with her returning to brighten their fortunes after a family tragedy.
Mary Poppins Returns will arrive in UK cinemas on December 21 and hits the US on Christmas Day (December 25).
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