• Evelyn was under as much stress as possible, but previously she had a husband she could trust. Can you talk about her transformation into a single mother and how she had to cope with those circumstances?

Emily Blunt: Sure. This character is so close to me and deeply personal to me. She acts with a kind of biblical ferocity when it comes to protecting her children, and I think that’s what I just adore about her as a person. But here she is, and the stakes have just risen to an exponential degree: she’s lost her husband, she has a newborn baby, no home; everything has burned to the ground. Where is she going? What the hell is this man going to do to protect her three children? How far will she go to protect these children? It turns out that very far.

But I also think this movie is emotionally even deeper than the first one. Because you’re dealing with grief, you’re dealing with a family who can’t step from foot to foot without feeling threatened. Their whole world has just been torn apart, and it hasn’t really been safe before. That’s why I always thought it was a good idea; that this family should take a chance and their world would be bigger; the stakes would be higher.

• There are so many layers to this movie, and I think you just lifted the veil. What is it about?

Emily Blunt: This movie? In the first episode, the audience learns how a family survived in this world. But how did other people survive? And how were they affected by what happened? I think that’s really the main theme – a story about humanity. You will see not only resilience and attempts to rebuild civilization, but also disunity; the idea of closing doors and borders; trying to answer the question of how far could you go to reach out to your neighbor? I think it was a really fascinating challenge for John to make sense of how other people have experienced all this.

• Rumor has it that you recently met with Marvel. We know that’s going to come up a lot.

Emily Blunt: That’s not true. It’s not true.

• Well, let’s say there’s Sue Storm. She has so many fans that the Internet is literally going crazy about it. What do you think about fulfilling fans’ wishes and playing Sue?

Emily Blunt: I suppose fan casting is great and very flattering for me. Purely hypothetically, and no one has talked to me about it seriously, my response is, “That’s great!” But I don’t know what else to say about it.

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