Emily Blunt apologizes for 2012 video of her calling Chili's server 'enormous': 'I'm appalled'
Emily Blunt is apologizing for an insensitive comment she made in a recently resurfaced interview.
The Devil Wears Prada star received a bevy of online criticism this week in response to calling an American waitress "enormous" in a rediscovered Jonathan Ross Show clip from 2012.
"I just need to address this head-on, as my jaw was on the floor watching this clip from 12 years ago," Blunt told PEOPLE. "I'm appalled that I would say something so insensitive, hurtful, and unrelated to whatever story I was trying to tell on a talk show."
She continued, "I've always considered myself someone who wouldn't dream of upsetting anyone, so whatever possessed me to say anything like this in that moment is unrecognizable to me or anything I stand for. And yet it happened, and I said it, and I'm so sorry for any hurt caused. I was absolutely old enough to know better."
During the 2012 interview, Blunt recalled an experience in which she went out to eat at a local Chili's restaurant while shooting her film Looper. Host Jonathan Ross chimed in, "If you go to Chili's, you can see why so many of our American friends are enormous."
"Well, the girl who was serving me was enormous," Blunt replied. "I think she got freebie meals at Chili's."
"Nothing wrong with that," said Ross.
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Blunt then explained how the waitress recognized her during the meal and began asking her a series of excited questions about the movie, but she didn't believe it was actually called Looper.
"She was like, 'Are y'all shooting a movie here?'" Blunt recalled in her best Southern accent. "And I said, 'Yeah, I'm shooting a film called Looper.' And she went, 'Looper?' And I went, 'Yeah.' And she went, 'Y'all just made that up.'"
The action flick, which was written and directed by Rian Johnson, also starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, and Paul Dano.
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