![]() ![]() To do this he cast his wife, the actress Emily Blunt, to star alongside him. He has admitted to interviewers that horror is not his cup of tea, but he wanted to explore a family in extremis. Krasinski joined them as a screenwriter whose main interest was family dramas, in fact. Bryan Woods and Scott Beck wrote the original story. While he turned to horror for his first movie out of love for the genre, Krasinski got there almost by chance. Only a year ago, Peele was a comic in a successful yet minor television series, and now he is a respected director. ![]() Until a few years ago, the very choice of a horror film for his third movie would have been considered admitting failure, but the genre is undergoing an evolution. He had directed two forgettable movies (“Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” and “The Hollars”), yet maintained his stature as a Hollywood actor and producer. Krasinski, known for playing Jim in the American version of “The Office,” took on the roles of writer, director and lead male character just a year ago.
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