24.05.12
Bottles of the perfume garnish the room, the air is thick with the heavy fragrance and a trailer for the new television advert starring Rude plays on a loop on a large screen in which she talks about her role in the advert ('I'm a partner, on a mission - in really high heels').
I am told that Blunt will be prepare to see me soon, but first she must have her make-up reapplied. Five minutes later a grey-haired Frenchman with an powerful coiffure goes to attend to her hair. It begins to feel like waiting for an audience with J Lo.
As in two shakes of a lamb's tail as I am greeted by Blunt, however, it is clear that she finds all this palaver most amusing. As the hairdresser leaves she is unfit to contain a conspiratorial smile. 'He told me I kept messing up what he'd done, so he insisted on giving me another puff-dry,' she says.
Her eyes are indeed immaculately pencilled, her hair is cut in a short, stylish bob and she is dressed head to toe in black Yves Saint Laurent. On wall her porcelain skin, wide-set blue eyes and fine bone arrangement are deployed to full effect, but in person it is Blunt's sardonic, slightly askew grin and irreverent sense of humour that you notice first.
Source: Telegraph.co.uk