Hollywood marriages usually come with a press strategy. Emily Blunt and John Krasinski seem to have a different one: show up, hold hands, say something kind about each other, and go home. They have been together since November 2008 and married since July 2010, and sixteen years on the most dramatic thing either has said about the other is a compliment. Here is what they have actually told us, and what I think it adds up to.
A restaurant, a friend and a man who left Justin Theroux mid-dinner
Our 2022 version of this story had them meeting at a party thrown by Anne Hathaway. That is not how Blunt tells it, so let us go with her version. On Late Night with Seth Meyers in 2018 she described a Los Angeles restaurant: she was at dinner with a friend, Krasinski was at another table with Justin Theroux, recognized her companion and came over. In her words, “he abandoned Justin and came over to us.” She called the whole thing a “sad, lame story.” It is not; it is the most relatable meet-cute in Hollywood.
Who asked whom out is still under dispute. In their joint Hollywood Reporter interview in December 2018, Blunt said, “I think it was me.” Krasinski: “No. It was me asking for a while and you took some time, and then we finally had a date.” My read: a couple who can argue about this in public, smiling, has already won the argument that matters.
Lake Como, then two girls
Krasinski proposed in August 2009, less than a year in, and later called the proposal “very casual.” The wedding was not: on July 10, 2010, they married at George Clooney’s estate on Lake Como, with Blunt in Marchesa. (Casual proposal, Clooney venue. Every couple balances its budget somewhere.)
Their daughters, Hazel and Violet, were born in 2014 and 2016. Announcing Violet, Krasinski wrote, “2 weeks ago we met our beautiful daughter Violet,” and he set the family rule early: “Pics of kids should only come direct from parents.” The girls are now 12 and 10 and still mostly invisible online. When the family turned up together at the US Open men’s final on September 13, 2026, it made headlines precisely because it is so rare. I think that is the real secret of this marriage, and it is not glamorous: they decided what is private and then actually kept it private.
A Quiet Place: working together without wrecking anything
Married actors playing a married couple in a film one of them directs sounds like a recipe for a very long car ride home. A Quiet Place (2018) went the other way. In January 2019 Blunt won the SAG Award for the role and said on stage, “I am going to share this completely with my husband John Krasinski,” calling him “a stunning filmmaker.” Krasinski has returned the favor for years; in 2020 he told ET, “She is without a doubt the most tremendous actress of our time in my opinion.”
They are doing it again. Krasinski is writing and directing A Quiet Place Part III; in March 2026 Blunt was confirmed to return as Evelyn Abbott, filming began on May 10, 2026, and Paramount has it dated for July 30, 2027. That also explains why Blunt went to the Met Gala in May without him: she said he was days away from starting the shoot. Choosing the set over the steps seems very on brand for them.
Her year, his applause
2026 has been Blunt’s busiest year in a decade: a Golden Globe nomination for The Smashing Machine (the couple walked the January 11 carpet together), The Devil Wears Prada 2 on May 1 with the biggest opening of her career, Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day on June 12, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 30, shared with Stanley Tucci. Krasinski was there. Robert Downey Jr., one of the speakers, called her “the wife you can’t resent [John Krasinski] for landing.” Fair.
One part of the old story deserves to stay, because it is still true and still useful. Blunt has spoken for years about her childhood stutter, worst between ages seven and fourteen, and about the teacher who noticed she was fluent when she did silly voices and pushed her into the school play. She sits on the board of the American Institute for Stuttering and hosts its gala. What strikes me is that she never tells it as a triumph story, only as a practical one: here is what helped, try it.
My take
There is no secret formula here, and I suspect they would be the first to say so. What they have is a set of boring, durable choices: the kids stay offline, the praise goes in public, the arguments stay about who asked whom out. Sixteen years after a man abandoned Justin Theroux mid-dinner, that still looks like the best decision anyone made at that restaurant.
Sources
- John Krasinski on Instagram: A Quiet Place Part III, day one (May 2026)
- The Graham Norton Show on YouTube: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, extended interview
- Late Night with Seth Meyers: Emily Blunt Tells the Story of How She Met John Krasinski (YouTube)
- ET: Blunt and Krasinski argue over who made the first move (THR joint interview, Dec 2018)
- ET: Blunt’s 2019 SAG Awards speech
- ET: Relationship timeline (engagement, wedding, daughters, Krasinski’s posts)
- Hollywood Walk of Fame: Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, April 30, 2026
- MEAWW: Robert Downey Jr.’s Walk of Fame speech
- SheKnows: Why Krasinski skipped the 2026 Met Gala
- HELLO!: The family at the 2026 US Open
- A Quiet Place Part III: cast, filming and release date
- Stylist: Emily Blunt on overcoming her childhood stutter
