Emily Blunt calls ‘likeable’ her ‘least favourite bloody word in the industry’

Last year’s mega-bestselling thriller from Paula Hawkins has been adapted for the cinema pronto. There was consternation when their names were first announced, but now it’s impossible to imagine anyone else in either role. He seems to get around a lot and somehow becomes tangled up in the lives of these three women, two of whom look like they could be sisters.

One day, on her way to the city, Rachel witnesses something so shocking in Megan and Scott’s backyard that it rocks her to the core.

“That said, in order to produce a cinematic story out of their perspectives, I think it was wise to follow the blueprint Paula Hawkins laid out so brilliantly”. “And I really was emboldened to discover who I really am”.

No spoilers here, though the movie gives away the game faster than the novel. She feels like something of an outsider too, which is where the one main comparison between the film and novel comes into play, for the latter is set in London, where the film is set in NY.

In order to distract herself, Rachel begins watching a couple; Megan and her husband Scott (Evans), from the train on her daily commute, envying their seemingly idyllic lifestyle. She’s drunk, she’s causing chaos for everybody she touches.

Us Weekly: “The real mystery: How did a spine-tingling bestseller turn into a plodding Lifetime-esque melodrama that’s devoid of suspense?” They go through the same stages of grief, anxiety, and desperation to know the truth-even if the truth makes itself fairly evident early on.

More impressive is Haley Bennett, who captures the restless spirit of the art gallery employee-turned-nanny Megan.

“Megan is living in the suburbs as a social outcast”. She fantasises about who these people are.

“She was very specific about the rosacea (redness around the face) and we had a full contact lens that covered my whole eye for the really drunk stuff to get the bloodshot glassiness”. Blunt. “I think she needed to be frightening”.

Blunt says this is the most emotionally taxing role she has played.

“I was so liberated by it… we went all the way, in every aspect that we could, of trying to make her look like an alcoholic”.

“He’s not a psychopath in the traditional sense”. “It’s seen through the lens of a human problem”.

Opening in Singapore tomorrow, the story casts the 33-year-old English performer as Rachel, an alcoholic divorcee investigating the disappearance of her ex-husband’s nanny.

For Rachel and other commuters passing by, the view becomes all the more intimate. Likewise, Taylor compared with Fincher is a conventional director, not afraid to use schlocky subjective devices such as the slow-motion fragments which represent Rachel’s lost hours. Is she a possible suspect? As the story proceeds, she admits she was happier as the other woman than as Tom’s wife. I think people can relate to it to varying degrees. “Whether they admit it or not”.