So WHICH Hollywood hunk’s kisses made Emily Blunt really feel sick?

Emily Blunt has sent shockwaves after claiming some of her smooches with Hollywood’s hottest heartthrobs ‘made her want to be sick’. 

The Devil Wears Prada star, 41, who is married to US actor John Krasinski, spoke to Howard Stern last week about her intimate moments, with the shock jock asking if any on-screen kisses had made her ‘want to throw up’.

Emily explosively confessed: ‘Absolutely, absolutely…I wouldn’t say it’s extreme loathing, but I’ve definitely not enjoyed some of it.’ 

A look back at Emily’s illustrious career, which started on the West End stage aged 18 opposite Judi Dench, sees a slew of Hollywood heartthrobs acting as her love interests – yet Emily refused to specify who was the focus of her comments.

Across a vast filmography, Emily has kissed the likes of Tom Cruise, Ryan Gosling, Jamie Dornan, Matt Damon, Colin Firth and Sam Neill.

So WHO has Emily kissed on-screen (and who left her reaching for the sick bucket)?

NATALIE PRESS – My Summer Of Love – 2004

In one of her theatrical debut, Emily starred as Tamsin in British drama My Summer Of Love, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and co-written by Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne – based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Helen Cross. 

The film follows the relationship between Emily’s relationship with actress Natalie Press’ character Mona, who comes from a lower class background.

Emily and Natalie’s kisses were frequent in the film, in which the adoring duo profess their undying love and swear to kill themselves if they ever separate.  

SAM NEILL – Irresistible – 2006  

Thriller Irresistible stars Susan Sarandon as Sophie, who starts to see things disappearing from her house and becomes convinced that she is being stalked.

She begins to suspect Emily’s character Mara, who is the colleague of her husband Craig – played by Sam Neill. Her suspicions lead to worse realisations. 

Steamy moments between Sam and Emily see Mara profess ‘f**k me’ to the star. The duo share a whopping 35 year age gap. 

JASON SEGEL – Gulliver’s Travels – 2010 

Emily plays the Princess of Lilliputia in the movie while Jason stars as her love interest Horatio, alongside a host of other stars. 

In the film, they are seen sharing passionate moments however she never detailed or discussed any of her romances in the movie. 

EWAN MCGREGOR – Salmon Fishing In The Yemen – 2011

In Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, which was adapted from Paul Torday’s novel of the same name, Ewan’s character is tasked with the seemingly impossible mission of introducing salmon into the Yemen wadis by a sheikh. 

Emily plays the sheikh’s representative Harriet and said of working with Ewan: ‘He is awesome. I think many women were really jealous that I got to work with him for that long. He’s swoon-able…

‘The movie has such heart so everyone worked really hard on it. It is an original story so everyone was relieved to work on something new and fresh.’

She also spoke about her resolution not to strip for sex scenes while discussing the film at the time as she said: ‘What I loved about [slow burning romance with Ewan McGregor in 2011’s Salmon Fishing In The Yemen] was that it felt like it was from a different era. So many films these days have people ripping clothes off each other…

‘The film had decorum. It was a slow-burning romance. The main draw for me was the dynamic between the two characters,’ 

MATT DAMON – The Adjustment Bureau – 2011

Emily starred opposite Matt, in the thriller, in which Matt plays David, a politician on the verge of winning a seat in the US Senate, who meets Emily’s character Elise, a ballet dancer, and falls in love with her.

They are met with a mysterious group of men try their best to keep them apart.

Their on-screen kiss comes as soon as they meet in the movie, and reviews stated that the duo’s chemistry was instantly explosive. 

Emily did not speak much about the kiss however detailed the training regime to depict a dancer, saying at the time: ‘It was really intense…

‘I did two hours in a dance studio and two hours in the gym every day for two months before the movie, and then during the movie whenever I could. And then a really tedious diet, which was the worst part for me.’

Matt and Emily reunited in Oppenheimer 13 years later.  

COLIN FIRTH – Arthur And Mike – 2012 

In Arthur and Mike, Colin plays a man whoe fakes his death and buys a new identity as Arthur Newman. On an escaping road trip, he meets Emily’s character Mike. They fall in love as they learn about each other in their adventure. 

In an interview with CNN, Emily and Colin were told that every actress who discussed kissing Colin had put him in their top three best kisses.

Emily replied: ‘Colin, that’s rather good isn’t it!’, before revealing he had likened her kissing to his male co-star in 2009’s A Single Man.

She went on: ‘He compared me to Matthew Goode when we did our kiss.’

RHYS IFANS AND JASON SEGEL – The Five-Year Engagement – 2012 

Jason Segal plays Tom, who gets engaged to Emily’s character Violet, one year after their first meeting. 

Over the next few years, their marriage keeps getting pushed due to their respective jobs until they are forced to rethink their choices.

Centering around their romance, the duo share smooches through the film however she is also seen kissing Welsh star Rhys Ifans, who plays Winton Charles in the movie.  

TOM CRUISE – The Edge Of Tomorrow – 2014

Emily starred opposite Tom in sci-fi flick The Edge Of Tomorrow which sees alien forces launch an attack on Earth and threaten to wipe out the human race.

Tom’s character Captain Cage, who is trapped in a time loop, teams up with warrior Rita Vrataski, played by Emily, to save the planet.

Fans were stunned when they learned an intimate moment between the pair was engineered by Emily in an improvised moment. 

During the promo trail, director Christopher McQuarrie revealed it was hard to include a romantic moment between the two characters – yet Emily intervened and staged the kiss between the duo, in what was deemed perfect timing. 

Christopher revealed: ‘The kiss at the end of the movie, we struggled with how to create any sort of…not romance, but their emotional connection between these characters. It was really difficult… 

As we were shooting that scene at the very end of the movie, we gave up on the kiss. We weren’t even trying to find a place for it anymore…

‘And right as Emily was saying goodbye to Tom, she just kissed him goodbye in the moment…

‘And it was not in the script. It was not even discussed on the day. Afterwards, she said, ‘It just felt right. It felt right and I did it.’” 

 JAMIE DORNAN – Wild Mountain Thyme – 2020 

In the Irish romantic comedy, Emily plays Rosemary Muldoon opposite Jamie’s Anthony Reilly and the couple were seen sharing a steamy kiss on-screen. 

Alongside a two star review, the critically-panned movie’s promo picture kiss was referenced in The Guardian’s breakdown of the movie. 

Adrian Horton penned: ‘Absent any friction other than unsubstantiated stubbornness (and, in a baffling and strange late reveal, some magical realist thinking), it’s difficult to feel invested in the couple’s skirting around what seems to be a very straightforward and inevitable conversation…

‘Instead, their final, minutes-long, romance-sparking row feels like watching two people argue over the infamous internet dress picture: circular and nonsensical to an outsider, impassioned but devoid of grounded feeling, ultimately stakes-less despite, in this case, a kiss in the rain (as promised on the film’s promotional poster).’

CILLIAN MURPHY – Oppenheimer – 2023 

In last year’s Oscar scooping epic Oppenheimer, Emily played Kitty, the wife of Cillian’s character, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the creation of the first ever atomic bomb, which later detonated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

While she has not previously discussed their kissing, Emily said that she would find herself ‘lost’ in her on-screen husband’s famous blue eyes: ‘It’s a real problem when you’re doing scene work with Cillian’.

Their co-star Matt Damon, who played Gen. Leslie Groves, echoed her words, saying: ‘Sometimes you find yourself just swimming in his eyes.’ 

Back In February, Emily spoke about depicting the real life character and admitted she felt Kitty was ‘wasted’ in life as a homemaker. 

She said: ‘I just think she was a woman who was meant for vast intellectual pursuits and had to contort herself to being a housewife. That brilliant brain went to waste in domesticity and she probably simmered away in the loneliness of Los Alamos.’ 

RYAN GOSLING – The Fall Guy – 2024

Emily stars opposite Ryan in this year’s The Fall Guy, a film loosely based on a 1980s TV series about stunt performers. 

The movie follows a stuntman – played by Ryan – working on his ex-girlfriend’s directorial debut action film, only to find himself involved in a conspiracy surrounding the film’s lead actor, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

In her interview with Howard, Emily, who plays the ex, reassured listeners that her connection with Ryan was genuine – and spoke about his wife Eva Mendes.

She added: ‘I love his wife, Eva. I love their children, and I feel like I’m very lucky to be friends with a gem of a person like him.’

In her interview with Howard, Emily said that developed techniques for kissing co-stars she’s not attracted to and is well-versed in creating ‘chemistry’.

She told the American radio host: ‘I think my feeling is I’ve got to find something I love about everybody. I have to find something – even if it’s one thing. It might be like they have a nice laugh or I like how they speak to people, they’re polite. I mean, it might be something random.

‘But find something you love about that person or something you love about them as the character and then kind of lean into that.’

The Oscar-nominee added: ‘I have had chemistry with people; I have not had a good time working with them… Chemistry is this strange thing. It’s an ethereal thing that you can’t really bottle and buy or sell. It’s there or not. And you can manufacture it.

‘I’ve been doing this long enough. I could have chemistry with this water bottle at this point. You know how to conjure it. But it’s just easier when you have a natural rapport with someone.’