However, as Emily Blunt herself alluded to, she was offered the opportunity to play opposite Robert Downey Jr. in 2010’s Iron Man 2.
Instead of Iron Man 2, she ended up making the Jack Black-led remake of Gulliver’s Travels, which opened the door for Scarlett Johansson to step into the Black Widow role after Blunt’s departure.
Unfortunately for Blunt, because of a contractual obligation to Fox after The Devil Wears Prada, she had to pass on the Phase One MCU project.
If she’d accepted that post, she would have played the role of Natalie Rushman, a.k.a.