Emily Blunt finds Dwayne Johnson a "calming" influence

Emily told People at The Smashing Machine's Los Angeles premiere: "Oh my God, he's just the best friend. He is endlessly joyful about other people's successes. He's innately kind. He's wise.

"He gives incredible advice. He's steady. That zen Polynesian vibe, he lives by it. And so in that way he's a very calming person to talk to if you're in the chaos of what this industry can be sometimes."

Emily and Dwayne became pals after starring together in the 2021 Disney flick Jungle Cruise and Blunt explained how their friendship developed in a "very fast" manner.

The Oppenheimer star said last month: "We just became very fast friends, like an immediate secret language, which I think you feel with certain people that you work with.

"We just talked and shared our souls. And I was just really taken by, I guess, how different he was from what I had imagined.

"He was so gentle and quite interior and sort of contemplative and kind, just easy. Like, so lovely to be around, funny and quick, all these qualities."

Meanwhile, Blunt recently revealed that her Hollywood career doesn't really impress her children.

The Golden Globe-winner, who has daughters Hazel, 11, and Violet, nine, with her husband John Krasinski, told Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week: "I don't know if they're meant to be impressed.

"I did a photoshoot the other day for the cover of a magazine. I was pretty stoked about it. I'd spent the whole day with people saying, 'Oh my god. So fierce. You look so good. You just look so gorgeous, Emily.' And I walked into my apartment still with my photoshoot makeup on, and my oldest daughter, Hazel, went, 'Ew.'

"And my little one, Violet, was like, 'I think you look nice, mama.'

"So I, you know, I've turned one of them."

Asked whether her daughters' friends ever reacted to her fame, Emily explained it was usually their parents who took more notice.

The Mary Poppins Returns star said: "Sometimes the parents try to sort of recruit them, and they're like, 'That's Mary Poppins.'

"And I'm there in my sweatpants, and the kids are like, 'It's not. It's really not. Or I hope it's not.'"