Smells like success.
Emily Blunt earned her first-ever Oscar nomination for her work as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer in the Christopher Nolan biopic “Oppenheimer.”
While the 40-year-old is ecstatic over her nod, she was in kind of a stinky position when she heard of the nomination.
The “Devil Wears Prada” actress revealed that she was actually scooping up her dog’s poop when she was notified about the Academy Award nomination last month.
“It’s all quite scary, the anticipation of it, and I think you just try not to listen to buzz because buzz can be built on sand sometimes,” she said during a conversation with Josh Horowitz at 92NY on Tuesday.
“And so when it did happen, and when it happened in such a far-reaching way for all of us in the movie and every crew member, it was magical,” Blunt continued.
The film earned a whopping 13 nominations in total, including for best picture.
“I did have a brief cry in the middle of Brooklyn, brief weep directly after picking up my dog’s poop,” Blunt went on. “I did pick up her poop and then I heard that I got nominated so it was perfect.”
The British actress revealed that husband John Krasinski also “had a really good cry as well, after helping me with the poop.”
“I think he went and put it in the trash and then we both cried,” she recalled.
In “Oppenheimer,” Blunt plays the wife of Cillian Murphy’s J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was also known as the father of the atomic bomb.
The ensemble cast is rounded out by Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett and Rami Malek.
Blunt, for her part, “empathized” with her character.
“The idea of that extraordinary brain wasted and decaying at the ironing board and the anger and the simmering rage that would follow,” the “Into the Woods” star said. “[Kitty] kind of raged against the machine as best she could… she married this icon and clearly worshipped him, loved him, supported him, was there, a hugely stabilizing force in his life and yet she was so unstable.”
Murphy, 47, and Downey Jr., 58, are also both nominated for Oscars for their work in the best actor and best supporting actor categories, respectively. Nolan, 53, earned a nod for best director too.
Murphy’s other leading lady was Pugh, 28, who played Oppenheimer’s mistress and physicist Jean Tatlock.
Last year, the Irish actor divulged that the sex scenes with the “Little Women” star were “f—king powerful.”
“Those scenes were written deliberately,” Murphy told the Sydney Morning Herald in July.
“He [Nolan] knew that those scenes would get the movie the rating that it got. And I think when you see it, it’s so f—ing powerful,” the “Red Eye” star added.
Pugh recently said that a camera actually broke during one of their intimate moments on set. “No one knows this, but it did. Our camera broke when we were both naked, and it was not ideal timing,” she recalled. “I’m like, ‘What’s going on with the shutter here, buddy?’”
Jimmy Kimmel is set to host the 2024 Academy Awards, which will air from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on March 10.