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John Krasinski first made his way into our lives back in 2005 when he played Jim Halpert on the NBC hit series The Office. The show lasted for eight seasons, but during that time he started making the transition to movies with roles in Something Borrowed, License to Wed, Leatherheads, and It’s Complicated.

Meanwhile, Emily Blunt burst onto the scene in 2006 with her breakthrough role in The Devil Wears Prada opposite Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, and her profile continued to rise as she snagged parts in Dan In Real Life, Gulliver’s Travels, The Five-Year Engagement, and The Huntsman: Winter’s War.

While both Krasinski and Blunt were making big steps in their careers, the two actors ended up crossing paths in late 2008 and began dating. Krasinski says he had “full stalker status” since he was such a big fan of The Devil Wears Prada, but Blunt told him from the beginning not to look at their relationship as two Hollywood actors who met each other, but instead, they were just two regular people who met and fell in love. And, Krasinski says that is what saved their relationship.

"I remember being at my house and saying to her, 'So I just want to have this really honest conversation. I think you're one of the best act — ' I didn't even get out 'actress,'" he said. "She just went, 'No, no, no, no!' Very loud,” said Krasinski.

The couple ended up marrying in 2010, and since then they have had two daughters. Over the years, they did eventually discuss their careers, and being fans of each other’s work has resulted in support, love, and now co-starring roles in one of the biggest movies of the year.

20. Dunder Mifflin

Krasinski was a virtual unknown before landing the part of Jim Halpert on The Office, but as the series became a staple in the NBC comedy lineup, Krasinski’s star began to rise. Jim was a salesman at the Dunder Mifflin paper company who loved to prank his co-worker Dwight Schrute.

A major storyline on the show was Jim’s crush on the receptionist, Pam Beesly, and as the seasons progressed the two started dating and eventually got married.

In addition to starring as Jim, Krasinski filmed the footage in Scranton, Pennsylvania, used for the opening credits of the show, and he directed multiple episodes including Sabre, the 15th episode of season six, Lotto, the third episode of season eight, and The Boat, episode six of season nine.

19. I'm One Stomach Flu Away From My Goal Weight

As Emily, the senior assistant to Streep’s Miranda Priestly, Blunt shot to fame in The Devil Wears Prada, with many critics saying that she stole every scene she was in. Producers required both Blunt and Hathaway to remain on a strict diet regimen for the film that was so tough, and Hathaway later revealed that they were both so hungry the two would often hold hands and cry.

The film was a commercial and critical success, and it led to Blunt’s Golden Globes and BAFTA nominations for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Producers considered over one hundred actresses for the role – who was an American character in the novel – but after casting agents taped Blunt reading some of the lines in her British accent, they eventually gave the role to her because they liked her sense of humor.

18. An Italian Wedding

Blunt and Krasinski got married in a private ceremony in Como, Italy on 4th of July weekend in 2010. Wearing a custom cream chiffon Marchesa gown, Blunt walked down the aisle in an outdoor ceremony after dating Krasinski for a year-and-a-half.

Krasinski proposed to Blunt with a 3-carat Edwardian diamond and platinum ring from Neil Lane worth $100,000, but he said that it was all very casual, but emotional.

"So many people say, 'You know when you know,' and it's true," Krasinski said of his love for Blunt. "It's all true."

Among the people in attendance for the ceremony were George Clooney and his then-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, and Blunt and Krasinski stayed at Clooney’s Lake Como estate before they tied the knot.

17. Finally Co-Stars

It took a decade of being together before Krasinski and Blunt decided to co-star on a film project, and she says she was initially reluctant to appear in the horror flick when her husband pitched it to her, since she had just given birth to their second daughter and she was preparing to star in the new Mary Poppins film.

She was in a place of such joy and didn’t know if she wanted to go into such darkness, but after reading the script, she told Krasinski that he needed to call the actress he had hired for the part and fire her.

Turns out, that was a good move on Blunt’s part, and the initial reviews of the film are positive. “I'm not kidding when I say that A Quiet Place is the tensest movie I've ever seen. This is one of the best horror movies to come out in the last decade and one of my person favorites. This is an absolute must see!” wrote The Average Man Review.

16. Consolation Prize

Even though the two have been happily married for nearly eight years, Krasinski recently revealed that it was Blunt’s co-star Anne Hathaway in the Devil Wears Prada that first caught his interest.

“There’s a sort of montage sequence where Anne Hathaway’s got numerous fabulous outfits that they go through. And John, one day I came home, and he was watching it and he was watching the montage bit. And he goes, ‘That’s my favorite outfit,’” Blunt recalled on The Graham Norton Show.

Krasinski then joked that he couldn’t get Hathaway, so he asked Blunt if she wanted to go out. Of course, it’s Krasinski’s sense of humor that is one of the things Blunt loves about her husband, and she knew “disarmingly soon” that he was the one for her.

15. A Damaged Character

For her starring role in Girl on the Train, Blunt had to deglamorize in a way she had never done before. She says that they had to add makeup to look like she didn’t have makeup on. Makeup artists decorated her with prosthetic under-eye bags, varicose veins, and rosacea, plus various contact lenses to convey different stages of inebriation.

For the role of Rachel Wilson, Blunt had to identify with the humiliation and isolation many addicts must deal with, and Krasinski says that she disappeared so thoroughly into her character that for the first time ever he forgot she was his wife as he watched her on screen.

Blunt says she found the role to be liberating and free from the typical leading women clichés, and she says it was refreshing to not have to worry about appealing to a male audience.

14. Nobody Gets A Break

After giving birth to the couple’s two daughters, Hazel and Violet, Blunt admitted that things got quite hectic in their house and in the madness, no one gets to rest. She admits that there is nothing like the hectic life of raising two kids, but she wouldn’t have it any other way.

“When there was just one kid, somebody would get to sit down. Now nobody gets a break,” Blunt said. “But John is the most unbelievable daddy. He prioritizes Hazel, so she doesn’t miss me too much because I’ve been so consumed with the baby.”

With two daughters, Blunt says their house is a “zoo,” but she and Krasinski make sure to keep the romance alive in their relationship. She says she didn’t shower for a week after bringing Hazel home, but the two decided they needed to go out for dinner just to prove to themselves they could be normal for a second.

13. Being Number One

A Quiet Place is a nearly dialogue-free horror movie, but it crushed the box office during its opening weekend earning twice what experts projected. In the film, Krasinski and Blunt play a couple who are trying to evade creatures who respond to the slightest noise.

Krasinski also directed the film, and even though his previous directorial efforts were box office flops, this time he pushed Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One into second place in the weekend box office derby.

The marketing team at Paramount Studios put together a clever campaign that ended up appealing to a wide audience and not just horror fans. Their ideas included screenings and stunts at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, and custom ads that ran in theaters featuring attacks on noisy moviegoers.

12. They Knew Right Away

Blunt says her romance with Krasinski happened quickly, and it came right after she ended a three-year relationship with singer Michael Bublé. She says that she was sitting in a restaurant with a friend one day when The Office star suddenly walked in.

“We were discussing how much I was enjoying being single. And then [my friend] goes, ‘Oh, my God, there’s my friend John.’ And that was it,” Blunt recalled. “We were engaged within 10 months, but I think we probably knew before that.”

When talking about their first project together, Krasinski couldn’t help but gush about his wife, saying that it is the greatest collaboration he has had in his career. He says he had never seen her work until the set of A Quiet Place, and "when you see how she does what she does, it changes the air in the room because everyone is completely stunned."

11. Nothing Is Real

It took Blunt a long time before deciding to start her own Instagram because she was content playing characters for a living and not making her own life a big spectacle. She says that people can make assumptions based on what they see on the red carpet, but that isn’t her life and there is nothing real about it.

She says she spends her evenings feeding her kids and watching guilty pleasures like America’s Got Talent, which is an antidote to the jealous train window glare her character has in Girl On A Train. Instead of being jealous of the lives of others, it’s best to be happy with your own success. Her life is nothing like you think it is, and she likes it that way.

10. An Iconic Role

Initially daunted by the role that Julie Andrews made famous, Blunt was director Rob Marshall’s first and only choice for the beloved P.L. Travers character of Mary Poppins. The part required Blunt to go through intense dance training, and she shot the most difficult number first – a 15-minute choreographed song and dance number with co-star Lin Manuel Miranda.

She knew that she needed her own spin on the character to survive the comparisons to Andrews, and she decided to do something that she took from the books. Her interpretation is more eccentric and “frickin’ weird,” and she is batty, rude, and vain. Blunt says her character is like a hurricane when she arrives, and everyone is trying to keep up with her.

The story takes place 25 years after the original when Mary returns to help Michael, his children, and his sister Jane with a death in the family.

9. Emily's Role

Julie Andrews cheered Blunt on as she took on the role but declined a cameo because she wanted it to be “Emily’s show,” and she didn’t want to step on it. Instead, she wanted Blunt to run with it.

The 34-year-old recently showed the original movie to 3-year-old Hazel for the first time, and she is so infatuated with it that she is afraid her daughter will reject her version. Hazel is in love with Andrews and knows every single song from the film.

“At first, she was kind of confused because I said, ‘Remember how Mummy was pretending to be Mary Poppins for a while? Well, there was another lady who played Mary Poppins. Would you like to see another Mary Poppins film?’” Blunt asked Hazel.

8. Bit By The Bug

Krasinski never intended to be an actor, but instead went to college to be an English teacher because he had seen Dead Poets Society and thought “I can get kids to stand on desks.”

Of course, he was joking, but he does love teaching and thought that is what he wanted to do until the acting bug bit him. He even taught English in Costa Rica before going to college.

A self-proclaimed huge comedy nerd, Krasinski became a script intern for Conan O’Brien, and he says that one of the most surreal moments he has experienced was when he did Conan’s show for the first time. He said everyone was proud that he had come full circle, and it was a very emotional experience and one of the best moments of his career.

7. Pinterest-Mad

Despite an acting career filled with multiple award nominations and wins, Blunt fantasizes about an alternate life that would keep her closer to home. She says it is her dream to just flip houses because she adores renovating, working with different materials, and coming up with a story for each room in a house. She claims to be “Pinterest-mad.”

And, she knows when she is going to switch careers. “Once I begin playing everyone’s mother, then I’ll just start flipping houses instead,” Blunt said with a laugh.

Right now, when she isn’t on a movie set, she is spending time with her girls by taking them to concerts in Brooklyn and teaching Hazel how to ride a scooter. When a film wraps, there is nothing better for Blunt than returning to her family.

6. A Terrible Decision

On his Instagram, Krasinski joked that it was a terrible decision for him and his wife to work together, and in an interview, Blunt said that she was afraid that they would kill each other by slowly throttling the life out of each other during the filming process. But in reality, they enjoyed every minute of working with one another, and he said he was lucky enough to be in the front row for his wife’s performance.

"I think my wife gets me," Krasinski said. "Not just to sound adorable, but the truth is she gets me more than anyone else has ever gotten me. And so, she allows me to, for lack of a better term, bottom out for a second and get really scared."

5. Real Chemistry

Jim and Pam from The Office were one of television’s most favorite couples during the show’s eight-year run, and Jenna Fischer – who played Pam – said on Watch What Happens Live that the chemistry between herself and Krasinski was real.

“John and I have real chemistry,’ she told host Andy Cohen. ‘There’s like a real part of me that is Pam and a real part of him that’s Jim and those parts of us were genuinely in love with one another. But in real life, we aren’t totally Pam and totally Jim, so in real life we’re not the perfect match. So, it’s a really complicated thing.”

Krasinski was basically Fischer’s work husband, and even though they are both married to other people, she says they will always be close because of it.

4. #Relationshipgoals

Even though Krasinski and Blunt already have two young daughters, actor Ryan Reynolds felt like they needed a son, and decided that it would be him.

After seeing A Quiet Place twice in one week, Reynolds tweeted, “See this film. @johnkrasinski and @emilyblunt are my new parents. Congratulations, Ryan.”

Krasinski quickly responded with a tweet of his own, “Thank you son. Your mother and I are so proud.” Apparently, Reynolds got a first-hand look at what fans suspected, Krasinski and Blunt are serious #relationshipgoals, and he wanted to be a part of it.

Blunt has said that Krasinski is her perfect man because he is funny, warm, bright, and confident, and he is a “very emboldening person.” Krasinski says that he wasn’t even looking for a relationship, and then he met her and thought “I think I’m gonna fall in love with her.”

3. She's The Boss

Krasinski says the secret to making a movie with his wife is knowing that she is the boss. Despite the fact that he wrote and directed the movie, he always knew she was in charge. He also says the key to their collaboration was to be as honest with each other about their work as they are in their marriage.

“I was emotional every day, and she would stay for the scene she wasn’t in. She would have incredible ideas and incredible notes on shooting script and on color performances. She’s just the most supportive person to have around.”

He also said that if either of them had any problems or things they wanted to change, they would talk about it at home instead of on set. Ultimately, he says she is the best there is.

2. A Labor Of Love

In the most suspenseful scene of A Quiet Place, Krasinski says he didn’t have to give Blunt any notes, because she had been through it, so he had nothing to add. In the scene, Blunt’s character is sitting in a bathtub about to give birth, but she can’t make a sound, or the monsters will appear and kill her.

“I can’t tell you how much this movie means to me. I love that people are saying it’s scary. But to me, it is all about family and the metaphor for what it takes to be a parent, and the extremes that you would go through to protect your kids,” said Krasinski.

Critics are unanimously praising the film where a couple and their children try to survive in a post-apocalyptic world filled with creatures who hunt by sound.

1. Not Divorcing By The End Of It

Blunt says that before she and Krasinski started working together, it was terrifying because "you don’t know what is going to happen and you aren’t sure if your processes are going to work well together."

“Some people were like, ‘You’re going to be divorced by the end of it.’ But we quickly learned we work really well together. We discovered new sides to each other that go beyond us being a married couple,” Blunt said.

She added that they had never really seen each other on a professional day-to-day basis, and it was a completely different experience to share work and then go home together. Blunt says that she and her husband were in the thick of it together, and now they are closer because of it.

References: latimes.com, today.com, vanityfair.com, hellomagazine.com, dailymail.com , variety.com