If You Want A Pic With Emily Blunt…NO SELFIE FOR YOU.

According to Page Six per a recent spread in Vanity Fair, Emily Blunt doesn’t want to take a selfie with you.  So bugger off, commoner.

Now, if you don’t know who Emily Blunt is, she played the really snooty-assistant-chick in The Devil Wears Prada (I LOVE THAT MOVIE SO MUCH), and she’s married to “Jim” from The Office (John Krasinski).

She’s also the chick who regretted becoming an American citizen when she watched the Republican Presidential debate back in 2015. Bless her heart.

When it comes to being a movie star, she has some opinions about how social media is apparently useless when it comes to promoting movies:

“I don’t think it does shit, to be honest. I think a movie lives or dies on word of mouth and the trailer. I have seen people do endless social-media campaigns and the movie tanks, so I don’t see a correlation. . . . I strongly believe that my job is to persuade you that I am playing somebody else, so exposing too much personally is just something I can’t get on board with.”

Now, I’ve never been tasked with managing the public relations for a movie, so I won’t argue with her there.  But I do know the overall power of social media as a whole by being immersed in it as my business over the better part of a decade.  It’s freaking powerful.  

As for the whole exposing too much personally?  That was an interesting statement.  How many celebrities did we really get to pretend–to-know back in, say, the 80s and 90s?  Before then?  Before we were all heads down in a smartphone?  We’d see celebrities on television and in the movies, but we didn’t interact with them like we do now on Instagram and Twitter and other social media outlets.  These days, we know what celebrities ate for breakfast, who they’re dating, and what their new puppy looks like.  Celebrity is different now than what it was twenty, thirty, even just ten years ago.  And while I suppose some celebrities don’t really want to engage in the Kardashian-like world of “I just peed, everyone! Looooook!“, folks like Blunt still have to understand that fans of hers are going to want pictures with her so they can have visual proof and say, “OMG I MET EMILY BLUNT!”

Fans are the consumers of the celebrity widget – which I guess they would say is their “craft.”  Whatever.  Fans are the reason she has a job.  Period.  But this whole picture-taking thing is probably making her regret her decision to become an American citizen even MORE NOW OMG.

So many AMERICANS IN AMERICA.  I’m sure it’s downright horrific for her, y’all.

When it comes to “combating” selfies, though:

“Social media has changed the landscape so an encounter with you is valued more as a social-media currency than a genuine interaction,” says Blunt, explaining that she has adopted a selfie-combating strategy when approached while with her young children: “Frances McDormand told us—she just makes my teeth ache I love her so much—when someone asks her for a picture, she says, ‘You know what? I’ve actually retired from that. But I would like to shake your hand and meet you.’ ”

The “retirement” approach made me giggle.  Mainly because Blunt is 34, so if the whole, “I don’t want to take a picture with you, because I am an ungrateful seahag” thing doesn’t rub someone the wrong way, then the retiring-from-picture-taking-with-normal-people-at-34 is probably going to do the trick.

So yeah.  FYI…if you were wanting to get your picture taken with Emily Blunt, you may want to rethink it…because she’s retiring from selfies or something.  Because Frances McDormand did it.

Anywho, celebrities are ridiculous.