Emily Blunt on 'A Quiet Place 2': It explores metaphor of fractured feeling in the air

From fears of parenthood to capturing the "untethered" feeling across the world, there is a lot to take away from "A Quiet Place 2", says Hollywood star Emily Blunt.

The original horror film in 2018 revolved around the Abbott family, featuring Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe, trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where alien monsters hunt humans by sound.

The sequel, Emily said, is about empathy and if one looked closely, also about how humans need to stick together to survive the odds.

"People are feeling that on a global scale, the idea of borders shutting down, of not extending your hand to your neighbour. That fractured, untethered feeling is in the air. The film does explore that as a metaphor," Emily said in a group interview with select international media here.

"I find the film very hopeful as ultimately the characters discover that as human beings we want togetherness, we want to feel that we are meant to be together. It's an awakening for Cillian's (Murphy) character who has been broken by this environment."
"The idea that how far will you go to protect your children. This character, Evelyn, possesses this maternal ferocity that will take her to the end of the earth for her children."
Closer home, though, Emily said her daughters do not like watching her or Krasinski on screen as they find their parents job "really unnerving."
"They saw 'Mary Poppins' once and that's it. They don't like seeing me as anything other than Mummy. They hate seeing me like this. I went home last night and my youngest one says, 'wash your face.' They don't like make-up, heels, anything because they assume I'm going somewhere. My daughter saw the trailer and was so weirded out!"