Emily Blunt has apologised after fatphobic comments she made in a 2012 talk show interview have resurfaced.
The Devil Wears Prada star appeared on The Jonathan Ross Show in September 2012. During her chat with the host, the actress referred to an American server she'd met whilst filming Looper as "enormous".
"I just need to address this head on as my jaw was on the floor watching this clip from 12 years ago," Blunt says in a statement shared with People.
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"I'm appalled that I would say something so insensitive, hurtful, and unrelated to whatever story I was trying to tell on a talk show.
"I've always considered myself someone who wouldn't dream of upsetting anyone so whatever possessed me to say anything like this in that moment is unrecognisable to me or anything I stand for.
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"And yet it happened, and I said it and I'm so sorry for any hurt caused. I was absolutely old enough to know better."
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In the chat show episode, Blunt recalls eating at a local Chili's during filming Looper, also starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Paul Dano.
"If you go to Chili's, you can see why so many of our American friends are enormous," Ross told Blunt, to which she replied: "The girl who was serving me was enormous. I think she got freebie meals at Chili's."
Ross responded: "Nothing wrong with that."
The Oppenheimer star said the server asked her if she'd often get mistaken for Emily Blunt only to realise she was actually talking to the actress.
Blunt will be reuniting with her Jungle Cruise co-star Dwayne Johnson on an upcoming project they're both producing. Amazon's film Kate Warne is set to centre on the first female detective at the prestigious US detective agency Pinkerton Agency, with the possibility of Blunt taking a role.
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