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Emily Blunt takes center stage in the film The Smashing Machine, co-starring with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Recalling a particularly challenging scene, Blunt revealed that after filming a sequence on a fairground ride, she felt so ill that she ended up vomiting upon returning home.
In this gripping drama, Blunt portrays Dawn, the wife of former MMA fighter Mark Kerr. She described her character as someone constantly drawn to excitement and chaos, a trait vividly captured during the scene on the Gravitron ride. Blunt explained that while the scene was crucial to showcasing Dawn’s adventurous spirit, the physical toll of filming it was unexpectedly overwhelming.
This year, Emily Blunt starred in The Smashing Machine alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. During one scene set in a fairground, Blunt’s character rode a Gravitron ride. While she said the scene revealed a great deal about her character, she didn’t like shooting it. Blunt admitted she got so nauseous that she vomited when she got home.
Emily Blunt recalled a challenging scene to shoot in ‘The Smashing Machine’
In The Smashing Machine, Blunt plays the wife of former MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Blunt saw her character, Dawn, as someone who was “always chasing wildness.” She felt this side of Dawn was on display in a scene where she rides the Graviton.
“So that Gravitron ride for her is like that full flight of freedom, and you see her so joyful,” Blunt said. “It was an important moment for me, for the character who’s fairly tormented most of the movie, that she’s joyful and she’s alive, and she’s away from him. So it was quite an important moment that he is on the outside of being able to access that in her.”
While Dawn enjoyed riding the Graviton, Blunt did not. The ride went upside down, which did not agree well with the actor.
“I got so sick,” she said on Entertainment Weekly’s The Awardist podcast, per Us Weekly. “I actually puked when I got home. It was awful.”
Johnson said Blunt’s dedication to the scene impressed him. She got on the ride more than once despite the way it made her feel.
“She was a trooper,” he said. “She rode that thing twice.”
