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Watching Frozen May Have Caused Emily Blunt To Give Birth

Actress also talks about being pregnant while shooting Into the Woods

By Marc Malkin Dec 23, 2014 2:00 PMTags
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Emily Blunt and John Krasinski named their daughter Hazel, but we wouldn't have been surprised if they decided on Elsa instead.

"I saw Frozen the day before I had my daughter," Blunt told me the other day while promoting her new musical movie Into the Woods (in theaters on Christmas Day). "Isn't that crazy? There was nothing on and I was like, 'Do you think this will be good?,' and John indulged me and we went to see it."

"Let It Go" took on a whole new meaning for the couple. "I was like, 'I'm about to,'" Blunt said, laughing. "I'm literally about to let it go." (For the record, Blunt says she does like the name Elsa.)

Blunt was expecting while shooting Into the Woods. Funny enough, she plays the Baker's Wife, a woman desperate to lift a witch's spell that keeps her from getting pregnant.

Fortunately, she didn't have to suffer with morning sickness while filming. "I was done with the first three months by the time we started shooting," Blunt said. "I was in the fun time where you're kind of elated and energetic and then I wrapped right before the not so fun time where you're sort of enormous and you can't sleep and you pee every 10 minutes."

SPOILER ALERT! Stop reading now if you're not already familiar with Into the Woods.

Blunt's character eventually does have a baby but not after she resorts to lying, stealing and even getting rough with Cinderella (Anna Kendrick).

Into the Woods is not a classic fairy tale story. It turns quite dark—so dark that some school productions are only allowed to perform the more cheerful first half of the show.

"Isn't that wrong?" Blunt protests. "It's not right. Look at all the Disney movies—Dumbo's mother is chained up and tormented and then Bambi loses his mother and The Lion King when his father gets trampled. I remember being very upset by that, but kids understand. This is what these fairy tales are. They're cautionary tales. They're warnings, but also advice to them to say with honesty, 'You're going to have some knocks and they're going be the making of you. But just be careful.'