How Emily Blunt Overcame a Childhood Stutter—and Helps Others Do the Same

Emily Blunt’s career, quite literally, depends on her speaking skills: whether she’s singing as beloved nanny Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins Returns or frantically whispering as Evelyn in the thriller A Quiet Place.
Growing up, however, the London-born actress had a stutter that made it difficult for her to pronounce her own name.
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“I started noticing it at 6 or 7,” Blunt, 37, tells PEOPLE in this week’s&nbs