At one point, Blunt took a break from acting to spend more time at home with her children.
“I just feel there’s cornerstones to their day that are so important when they’re little,” she said on a 2024 episode of Table for Two With Bruce Bozzi, “and it’s, ‘Will you wake me up, will you take me to school, will you pick me up, will you put me to bed?’ I just need to be there for all of them for a good stretch, and I just felt that in my bones.”
For Blunt, there was an “emotional cost” that came with being away to film for long periods of time.
“I’m very prone to guilt,” she continued. “I think maybe all mothers are. We’re just prone to feeling bad for, God forbid, wanting something outside of being a mother. I’m a huge advocate for it. I’m a huge advocate for women being ambitious. I love the word ambition. It’s just dreams with purpose, that’s all it is.”
And navigating schedules is something she and Krasinski tackle as a team.
“There is no mom or dad guilt,” he said on a 2024 episode of Pop Culture Moms. “It’s us as a family. We’re all in it together. But I will say that it is difficult. We’ve had many conversations with our kids. First and foremost being that when we have to go away for work, there are some people who don’t geographically go away, but their parents’ jobs take them away ‘til 8 p.m. or 10 p.m. or you go on business trips over the weekend. So we’re all in it together just in different aspects as parents.”
