Working with someone “that good, it makes you better and it’s a gift that keeps on giving,” Wyatt Russell tells PEOPLE of Blunt
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NEED TO KNOW
- Emily Blunt's Disclosure Day costars Wyatt Russell and Margo Seibert revealed what it was like working with the actress
- Russell and Seibert, who worked closely with Blunt, shared the insight with PEOPLE at the film’s New York City premiere
- Both actors praised Blunt's talent and humor behind the scenes of the new Steven Spielberg sci-fi film
When it comes to Disclosure Day, it appears that one thing is unanimous: The cast loved working with Emily Blunt.
Speaking with PEOPLE at the New York City premiere of Steven Spielberg's latest star-studded sci-fi flick on June 8, stars Wyatt Russell and Margo Seibert revealed what it was like to have the Devil Wears Prada and A Quiet Place actress as a scene partner.
In the film, Russell, 39, spends most of his screen time opposite Blunt, 43. She gives a critically acclaimed performance as Margaret Fairchild, a local meteorologist who experiences a sudden awakening of supernatural mind-reading skills, and he portrays her laid-back, musician boyfriend.
Asked what it was like working with her on the premiere red carpet, the actor said, “Incredible.”
“As much command and just range and depth that she has as an actress, she's also that great as a person, so it makes it a lot of fun to do it during the day,” Russell told PEOPLE during the event at the Lincoln Center.
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“And it makes it easy for me, because a lot of my stuff is reacting off of her,” he continued of working with Blunt. “So it was like, be a good listener and I think I'm gonna be all right. But yeah, whenever you get to work with anybody like her, who's that good, it makes you better and it's a gift that keeps on giving."
Disclosure Day star Seibert plays one of Margaret's colleagues at KCXE, the Kansas City TV station where she works. At the premiere, Seibert told PEOPLE she was “excited to see the scenes I did with Emily,” adding that the Edge of Tomorrow actress brought the giggles on set.
Asked who the funniest cast member was, Seibert said, “I believe Emily Blunt is quite silly.”
Elaborating on her experience working with Blunt, she continued, “I don't know if you've heard this before, but truly like one of the moments that we have together is quite serious in nature and in the middle of it we both kind of mutually, I think she said, ‘Do you want to try and can we?' And I said, ‘Yes.' And then it became like what we do as humans.”
“We infuse these moments that are full of fear or dread or panic or not knowing with humor to deal with it, to handle, to move on, to show our humanity,” added Seibert. “So that was very, very present on set.”
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While he's not a cast member, another star at the Disclosure Day premiere also sang Blunt's praises on the red carpet: Neil deGrasse Tyson, who arrived in a galaxy print shirt and, naturally, weighed in on Spielberg's latest cinematic take on extraterrestrial life.
The astrophysicist, 67, watched the sci-fi flick ahead of its N.Y.C. premiere, so he was able to share his two cents. Asked what his favorite performance was from the film — which also stars Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo — Tyson named Blunt.
“I think Emily … they should have renamed the movie Emily's Face,” he shared with a laugh, “because every scene you're looking at her looking at somebody.”
Disclosure Day is in theaters now.
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