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In the archetypal look astatine Prime Video's The English, Emily Blunt's Lady Cornelia Locke faces execution and mayhem arsenic she makes her mode crossed the American West successful 1890.
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Emily Blunt is getting down and dirty.
Blunt stars in Prime Video's The English, which dropped its archetypal teaser Sept. 1. In this caller Western series, the histrion plays Lady Cornelia Locke, an aristocratic Englishwoman who reaches retired to Pawnee ex-cavalry scout Eli Whipp (Chaske Spencer, who viewers whitethorn retrieve from the Twilight series), to assistance transverse a convulsive 1890 American West and assistance her avenge the decease of her son.
But, arsenic the teaser shows, this isn't going to beryllium an casual task. Flashes of unit and dormant bodies are intercut with shots of Blunt riding a equine crossed an epic landscape, each portion gunshot noises punctuate her narration.
"There's conscionable thing astir this country," Blunt's Locke says successful the clip. "I sometimes wonderment if there's fearfulness successful america all."
Blunt precocious explained wherefore she was drawn to doing The English, telling People the aviator "just had maine successful its grip," leaving her "sort of powerless."
"It has the gait of a thriller—it's got this unit and brutality to it, and yet, astatine its core, it was the astir profoundly tender happening I'd ever read," Blunt told the magazine on Sept. 1. "You've got this epic pursuit thriller, and yet there's a emotion communicative that runs and reigns ultimate done it—I conscionable recovered it tonally wholly bewitching."
Throughout Locke and Whipp's journey, Prime Video promises that the bid volition interaction themes similar race, powerfulness and love.
"Both of them person a wide consciousness of their destiny, but neither is alert that it is rooted successful a shared past," the logline reads. "They indispensable look progressively terrifying obstacles that volition trial them to their limits, physically and psychologically. But arsenic each obstacle is overcome, it draws them person to their eventual destination—the caller municipality of Hoxem, Wyoming."
After Locke and Whipp get successful Hoxem, Prime Video teases that a execution probe by the section sheriff Robert Marshall (Stephen Rea) and young widow Martha Myers (Valerie Pachner) will uncover the "full grade of their intertwined history."
The English also stars Rafe Spall, Tom Hughes, Toby Jones and Ciarán Hinds.
All six episodes of The English volition premiere connected Nov. 11 connected Prime Video.
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