It looks like Julie Andrews has given her seal of approval to Emily Blunt playing Mary Poppins – at least, according to Blunt herself.
While Dick Van Dyke has expressed doubts about the ‘difficult’ project, Blunt claims 80-year-old Andrews was positively jubilant to hear who will play her iconic role in Mary Poppins Returns.
Emily told EW: ‘Rob [Marshall, the sequel’s director] said he was in the Hamptons, and he saw [Andrews], and he said, “It’s top secret, but Emily Blunt’s playing Mary Poppins”. And she went, “Oh, wonderful!”.’
When Rob passed this news on, Emily was unsurprisingly chuffed. ‘I… Read the full story
