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Emily Blunt says her Fall Guy character is loosely based on Barbie director Greta Gerwig

Exclusive: Emily Blunt talks the inspiration behind her Fall Guy director character

In upcoming action comedy The Fall Guy, Emily Blunt plays a director named Jody Moreno, whose leading man has gone missing. "Emily's role was a make-up artist when we sold it, and we converted it to first-time directing right before we gave her a very rough draft," Kelly McCormick, producing partner and wife of director David Leitch,tells Total Film in our new issue out on Thursday March 28, which features The Fall Guy on the cover. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.

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