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Anyone who saw this summer’s The Devil Wears Prada remembers the the bitchy assistant Emily flawlessly played by British actress Emily Blunt. Kissing Meryl Streep’s ass and shooting Anne Hathaway cold looks were enough to secure Ms. Blunt a place in the highly contested Hollywood rolodex. It has just been announced that she will be starring opposite Susan Sarandon in writer David Auburn’s The Girl in the Park.
The film tells the story of Julia Sandburg (Sarandon) who traumatized by the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from anyone once near and dear to her. But when Julia meets Louise (Blunt), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, all Julia’s old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does her illogical and increasingly irrational hope that Louise may be the daughter she lost so long ago.
Auburn, who displayed his knack for time-lapse stories in The Lake House, will be making his debut as a director. Shooting this fall in New York, The Girl in the Park marks the reunion of Blunt and Sarandon – they first appeared together in the straight-to-video Irresistible. Hopefully their second pairing will fare better now that Blunt has a name to help carry the weight.
