Though she's a rising star who seems eager to make her name, there was a period where Emily Blunt seemed to be doing nothing but turning down roles. The culprit was 20th Century Fox, which had an option on the actress following The Devil Wears Prada and therefore got her into the cast of Gulliver's Travels, forcing her to turn down both the Black Widow role in Iron Man 2 (which went to Scarlett Johansson) and playing Jackie Q in Get Him To The Greek (done by Rose Byrne in the end). We've yet to see how the Gulliver's Travel option works out-- the movie comes out this Christmas-- but Blunt is almost free from Fox's grasp, and she's going to make it up to Greek director Nicholas Stoller by working with him at last.

As Vulture, Stoller and Jason Segel (her Gulliver's Travels co-star) want Blunt to star in Five-Year Engagement, the comedy they're putting together at Universal. This time Blunt is likely to be able to take it, starring opposite Segel as characters in a relationship that, as you may guess, stays in the engagement period for five years. It's been described as a "bawdy couples comedy," which is about par for the course for the Forgetting Sarah Marshall collaborators Segel and Stoller, but adding Blunt to the cast is definitely a new wrinkle. Though she pulled off comedy marvelously in The Devil Wears Prada, there's still something proper and refined about her--a reputation she was clearly eager to break with the Jackie Q role in Greek. She and Segel are both adorable people with comedic chops, so really, there's nothing not to look forward to here.