What does it mean to be an American?
Emily Blunt is still mulling that question, as she proved on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night. The Sicario star became a legal resident of the United States in August, and her friend and neighbor Jimmy Kimmel is ecstatic. "I hope you know how thrilled I am that you are one of us now," the TV host told the movie star.
"Really?" Blunt asked. "Did you not like that I wasn't before?"
"There was a wedge between us, I felt like, yes," Kimmel said, adding, "We always get the sense that when people come here from England they kind of look down their noses at us." The actress jokingly replied, "Oh, we do! Yeah! Very much. Because we're better than them. But now I'm only half better."
"It's so strange and slightly disarming. I'm not sure I'm entirely thrilled about it," she said. "People ask me about the whole day. They were like, 'Oh, it must have been so emotional.' I was like, 'It wasn't! It was sad!' I like being British. It was the most bizarre day. Matthew McConaughey's wife [Camila Alves] was getting sworn in with me, who is so nice. McConaughey shows up looking like he's going on safari. I was like, 'You could have worn a shirt and tie. Like, Camila looks amazing!'"
Blunt's husband, actor John Krasinski, stood by McConaughey during the ceremony and tried his best not to say, "All right, all right, all right," the actress recalled. "That's all he was thinking about the whole time."
The worst part of the ceremony was being asked to renounce Queen Elizabeth II. "It wasn't specifically Queen E, but she knows," the Edge of Tomorrow actress joked, adding, "The thing that's weird is I do get to keep both my British citizenship and this, but you have to renounce her. So, it's kind of typically American—not to be rude—but I had to renounce her in the room but I don't actually, technically renounce her. They're like, 'Just say it. You don't have to mean it, but just say it.'"
"It was so perfect," she added.
Blunt couldn't believe how difficult the U.S. citizenship test was. "I guarantee most Americans would have no idea how to answer any of these questions," she said.
Blunt laughed at the absurdity of the "background check test."
"They asked me things like, 'Are you a habitual drunkard?' And I said, 'Well, I was last night,'" she said, adding that her lawyer did not find her jokes amusing. "'Have I ever been a prostitute?' was another question. I said, 'Well, I was.'"
Kimmel then decided to give Blunt his own version of a U.S. citizenship test.
"This will determine if you are indeed an American citizen," he said.
Kimmel asked her three questions:
• "What are the giant refillable sodas at 7-Eleven called?"
• "What does MLB stand for?"
• "What does DQ stand for?"
To see if Blunt passed Kimmel's test, watch the video now!