It’s highly debatable which Devil Wears Prada character is more awful: Miranda Priestly or Emily. But if you ask, Emily Blunt‘s two young daughters, they would choose their mom—who played Priestly’s first assistant at Runway magazine in the 2006 film—without hesitation.
“They thought I was the meanest person they’ve ever met,” the actress—who shares Hazel, 10, and Violet, 7—with her husband, John Krasinski, told Page Six of her children’s reactions during an interview at the 18th Annual American Institute for Stuttering gala this week.
While Blunt’s daughters aren’t Emily’s biggest fans, other people can’t get enough of Blunt’s carb-hating character and her savage one-liners. “It’s incredible that [The Devil Wears Prada] has such an indelible fingerprint on people and it’s people’s standby feel-good movie,” Blunt continued. “It’s quoted to me every week.”
Blunt added that she and the cast (which includes Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Stanley Tucci) had “the times of our lives” working together on the film. “At the time I was young, it was my first big movie,” she said. “I remember my agent calling me and telling me about the opening weekend. I was like, ‘Is that good?’ Like I didn’t know what was good.”
Hazel and Violet may not be thrilled to hear that Blunt will be reprising her role as Emily in the upcoming Devil Wears Prada sequel, which is reportedly centered around her relationship with Priestly. Variety reports that the project “follows Priestly as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and faces off against Blunt’s character, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.”