Actress Emily Blunt said she wasn’t impressed when she was first offered the part of ‘overweight old lady’ Queen Victoria in the new movie

Actress Emily Blunt said she wasn’t impressed when she was first offered the part of ‘overweight old lady’ Queen Victoria in the new movie.

The 26-year-old plays the lead role in new flick The Young Victoria, which opens in US cinemas on December 18.

Talking about when she was first offered the part, she said to UK newspaper Daily Mail: “I was like: ‘Really guys? Really? An overweight old lady?’

“I had this image of her as the old lady in black with the hankie on her head looking really miserable.

“I’ve done some Q and As where people have said: ‘Well, the reason that Victoria had so many children was because typhoid was very prevalent in that time.

“And I’m like: ‘Or she loved sex. Either one’.”