Emily Blunt Jokes She Regretted Becoming A Citizen After GOP Debate

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Actress Emily Blunt recently joked that she questioned her decision to be come a United States citizen following the first Republican presidential debate.

“I became an American citizen recently, and that night, we watched the Republican debate and I thought, ‘This was a terrible mistake. What have I done?'” she told The Hollywood Reporter at the Toronto International Film Festival in an interview published on Monday.

Blunt also mentioned that she was impressed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

Davis Guggenheim, director of the “He Named Me Malala” documentary, lamented the state of the Republican presidential primary, calling it the “Republican clown car.” He also predicted that Donald Trump will “crash and burn.”

Watch The Hollywood Reporter’s video below:

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  1. Many of us who were born here feel the same way.

  2. Queue the wingnut Wurlitzer in 3…2…1…

  3. Avatar for wial wial says:

    The worst thing about watching the jockeying in the republican field, however much it reminds one of Monty Python’s upper class twit competition, is that eventually we’ll be forced to take one of these characters seriously.

  4. Imagine you’re visiting Portugal or some other civilized nation in a couple years and one of the locals says “Oh, your new President is Donald Trump, isn’t he?” Pretty quickly you correct the person that you’re from Canada, right?

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