Before Marvel officially announced actress Hayley Atwell to portray lead female role, Peggy Carter, in First Avenger: Captain America, Marvel reportedly offered the role to Emily Blunt. The
"Devel Wears Prada" actress now enlightens MTV on the subject.
"I'm a big supporter of [director] Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting," she said. "It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest."
"There's definitely a high commitment level and I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead," she said. "That would also be an issue for me as well."
When asked if CBM movies was for her or not
"I don't know," Blunt said. "Who's to say? I don't tend to be fatalistic about these things. I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time. Neither of them happened to be that."
And while the actress admitted that she and Krasinski "talk about every role that we're going up for," the pair didn't do any rehearsal around the house.
"We don't have Captain America suits lying around, if you can believe that," she laughed. "We just don't. I know that's weird, but we don't."
Blunt also was up for Black Widow in the upcoming Iron Man 2, but eventually went to Scarlett Johansson. Emily's fiance, John Krasinski, was also up for the Steve Rogers part, but eventually went to Chris Evans, whose currently prepping for the role, in England
Filming on The First Avenger: Captain America is expected to begin sometime around June 28th, with a world-wide release of July 22nd, next year.