Emily was one of the very few actresses who opted to wear color on the red carpet. The sexy British actress, who attended the SAG Awards with husband John Krasinski, looked great in a refreshingly bright jade green Oscar de la Renta one-shouldered chiffon gown, which she paired with silver Jimmy Choo heels, a blush pink Swarovski clutch, and gold bangles.

Emily completed the look with a simple updo, soft eye makeup, and a bright coral lipstick.

Retro screen siren waves would have looked better with this look, though. Or even some good ol’ fashioned curls…

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The 28-year-old star of “The Devil Wears Prada” is the new face of YSL’s Opium perfume, and while she says she’s honored to represent the iconic brand, she’s hard-pressed to believe she’s the right person for the role that’s been held in the past by burlesque performer Dita von Teese, a-totally-naked-except-for-stilletos Sophie Dahl, British model Karen Elson, and French actress Melanie Thierry …

“God, I’m so un-French in that trailer,”

Emily laments to U.K.’s The Daily Telegraph.

“There was no one else? They made a mistake, a terrible mistake.”

This despite YSL president Renaud de Lesquen saying in an official press release that:

“She quite obviously embodies who we feel to be today’s Opium woman.”

And what does the often blunt Emily say to that?

“I think that I’ve been wanting to make sure that when I did it, it would be the right thing,”

she says with mock trepidation.

“I’d been asked to do a couple of things but none were as classy as this. And I got to work with a leopard! ”

Imagine that.

Watch Emily Blunt‘s YSL Opium campaign here:

Photos Via YSL Opium Ad Campaign

The ‘You’re Beautiful’ hitmaker and The Devil Wears Prada star, who are friends but not related, dreamed up a plan to send the gossip mills into overtime, because they are always mistaken for being from the same family.

Emily, 24, says, “James Blunt and I are thinking of starting a rumour in the press that we are actually related but that we hate each other, and neither of us is willing to admit to it. He’s a buddy — we talked about it because we both get asked about it all the time. I guess we both have brown hair and blue eyes and are British — of course we’re related.”

And of course they have the same last name so it’s easy to be mistaken, isn’t it?

On acting:
“I got into it by accident. I thought I’d do languages and be an interpreter. But I loved drama and got an agent a year into my exams who said ‘Do you want to try it for real’”

On clothes and fashion:
” I like fashion – I’m very partial to Marc Jacobs and Prada – but I don’t want clothes to wear me. Ordinarily, I dress like a teenage boy in layered T-shirts and Converse. To me Emily in Prada was an alien from Planet Fashion. I’d rather aspire to look like Cate Blanchett, who’s always immaculate, or Keira Knightley.”

On her new role in the Young Victoria and a corsetry regime that cinches her waist to 24 inches:
“That’s tough because I eat like a truck driver”

On her role as Emily in The Devil Wears Prada – which has won her such acclaim:
“Emily was a gift of a character to play in what was only my second movie. She was based on a couple of people I know. Hopefully they’ll never work out who they are. But I’ve got a lot to thank them for.”

On having to do the red carpet:
“It’s usually very surreal and frightening, I have a stylist who has a beautiful eye for clothes, but its terrible when you get out of the car and everyone decides that they hate your dress.”

Click here to see the behind the scenes video of Emily Blunt on InStyle website.

Emily was named The Best Female scene-stealer by Entertainment Weekly for her role in The Devil Wears Prada.

Blunt spoke about the weight loss for the film and claimed she had to go “painfully thin.” Ewww.

Has anyone see the movie yet? I have and loved it.