Emily Blunt says Meryl Streep danced to 'Mamma Mia' at her wedding to John Krasinski... reluctantly

Raechal ShewfeltWed, May 27, 2026 at 10:48 PM UTC

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Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt at 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' premiere in April
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Emily Blunt recalled Tuesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live that Meryl Streep danced to "Mamma Mia" at her 2010 wedding to John Krasinski.

Streep, Blunt's costar in The Devil Wears Prada and its sequel, starred in Mamma Mia and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

Blunt said Streep hadn't wanted to dance but she did for the sake of the couple's mothers.

Consider it a perk of being a movie star: actress Emily Blunt recalls seeing Meryl Streep, her costar in The Devil Wears Prada, dance the night away to a song that she's very much associated with.

It happened when a group of about 60 people at Blunt's 2010 wedding to actor John Krasinski took a boat out on Italy's Lake Como. Streep was there because not only had she worked with Blunt in their fashionable 2006 film, but Krasinski had played her beloved future son-in-law in the 2009 movie It's Complicated.

"[The DJ on the boat] would sing the songs in half-Italian, half-English," Blunt told the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live when she visited Tuesday to promote her new movie Disclosure Day. "And he started playing 'Mamma Mia,' and my mom and John's mom started ominously dancing towards Meryl."

Streep starred in the 2008 big-screen version of Mamma Mia!, and, like The Devil Wears Prada, the title proved to be the first of two installments. In 2010, she wouldn't have yet appeared in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, which came in 2018. But she was already known for the film.

The Only Murders in the Building star politely moved with the moms.

"She indulged them," Blunt told Kimmel, who'd also attended the nuptials. "But I said to her afterwards, I was like, 'What did you feel when they came for you?' and she went, 'I wanted to hurl myself into the lake.'"

Still, Blunt added, "She did it! We have pictures of them all dancing together. It was amazing."

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John Krasinski and Blunt on May 15
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Kimmel recalled that many of the people there hadn't met Streep before, so this was their introduction to the three-time Oscar winner. (Two at the time.)

Oddly enough, the wedding location where Streep's now famous dancing took place, was actually George Clooney's estate, and it was also a setting in The Devil Wears Prada 2.

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When Clooney was asked about the property appearing in the trailer for the blockbuster, he seemed unaware.

"Is it really? Oh man, I've made it," he joked to Access Hollywood before the movie hit theaters.

More seriously, he added, "The house holds a special place in my heart, because I love going there" and called Blunt a "dear, dear, dear, dear friend."

Watch Blunt's full interview with Kimmel above.

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