New York: After the 2018 thriller A Quiet Place proved to be a smash hit at the box office, Paramount wanted a sequel no matter what. Emily Blunt, who plays the lead in the film opens up on whether she would have been in the sequel if her husband John Krasinski hadn't directed it.
"There isn't anybody else who could've done it and so I said to him, I said, 'I'm not doing it without you. You have to direct it.' And I think initially he was, 'Maybe I'll just write it' and I was like, 'OK, I'm not gonna be in it.' So it was really _ I think I maybe strong-armed him into doing it."
A Quiet Place II had its world premiere on March 9, in New York and Krasinski said he was looking forward to finally seeing the finished product with an audience.
"It's extremely nervewracking but I actually haven't seen it with an audience," he said. "I've seen it with some people but I've never seen it with a public audience so I think I'm as nervous as anyone else is to see this movie and I've seen the movie probably 698 times or something crazy and this is the one I'm most nervous about."
"We both get nervous," added Blunt, "but I'm more excited because I believe in it so much. I don't have concerns of like are people gonna like it? I know they're going to love it but I'm more excited to experience it with the audience."
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The film is about a family fighting to survive as they live in a world dominated by creatures that strike only when there's sound.
Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe also return for the second film. Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou join the cast. Murphy says he was happy to be a part of the project because he was a fan of the first film.
"For me, the first one was a movie about family, you know, and about loss and it moved me profoundly and that's why I was so thrilled to be involved in the second one," he said.
A Quiet Place II opens March 20 in the United States.
With inputs from APTN
