Emily Blunt's Next Role As Kitty Oppenheimer in Harper's Bazaar UK July-August 2023 AOC Fashion

Actor Emily Blunt is styled by Celia Azoulay in garden party clothes from Dior, Emilia Wickstead, Louis Vuitton, Max Mara, Miu Miu, Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini, Safiyaa and more. Tom Schirmacher [IG] flashes Blunt in ‘A Seat at the Table’ for Harper’s Bazaar UK July-August 2023./Hair by Laini Reeves; makeup by Jenn Streicher

Clara Strunck conducts the interview.

The actor has grown in multiple directions since the days of her role as Emily, assistant to Miranda Priestly in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’.

Kitty Oppenheimer Explained

This summer, Blunt plays a very different role in ‘Oppenheimer’, the story behind the creation of the atomic bomb. Playing the role of Kitty Oppenheimer, born Katharine Puening Harrison in New York City on August 4, 1910, Emily Blunt the actor is introducing us to a woman intrinsically tied to the most significant scientific achievement of the 20th century.

“She was fiery, a force very much his equal. She was not a woman who conformed to the 1950s housewife ideal,” Emily Blunt explains, with a tone of voice that denotes reverence.

Of course, as an American I know who J. Robert Oppenheimer was. And I know intimately well the story of the McCarthy hearings, as my first landlord in New York was a playwright imprisoned for 1-2 years during the hearings.

The connections go ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ deeper than that, but enough for now. My landlord was the person who educated me about the McCarthy hearings, a fact of American history that wasn’t in my Minnesota and Wisconsin American history books.

I did not know until today how seriously awful the Oppenheimers were treated in 1954 by the McCarthy hearings.

Wisconsin Sen. Josephy McCarthy was all-in MAGA and Trump’s friend and role model Roy Cohn, was Sen. McCarthy’s lawyer at the hearings.

Rachel Maddow had better get on the McCarthy hearings pronto for her new podcast. We are reliving these 1954 years right now, as we speak — especially with Trump and De Santis.