• On Good Things Utah this morning – Emily Blunt and John Krasinski had a memorable encounter with a large spider while abroad. On the April 29th episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the actress shared a story about living in the Australian outback while she was filming The Fall Guy. “Australia was very welcoming, loved it,” the Oppenheimer Oscar nominee told Kimmel. “The spiders were also very welcoming.”
    • Her husband of 13 years, Krasinski, “is very good with most insects, but he’s got a bit of a thing about spiders.” Nevertheless, when Blunt glimpsed a huge huntsman spider inside the house they were staying in, she told Krasinski, “You’re up. You’re up. Nope. I’m not. I’m not. I won’t,” she recalled.
    • Just how big was the creature? “You know when people go, ‘It was the size of your hand’? It was like a bird in full wingspan,” said Blunt. The actress then watched, she recalled, as Krasinski put a piece of Tupperware over the spider while “trying to act kinda cool about it. … I got the paper and I slid the paper under. Well, I handed it, and kinda backed up,” she added.
      • “He got outside and it was pitch black, so he couldn’t see,” continued Blunt, describing the sensation of the spider trapped within the Tupperware. “Then he released it and shook it out — but didn’t know if it was out because it was dark!”
  • Kimmel praised Krasinski’s “heroism” during the wild encounter, saying, “He’s Jack Ryan and neither one of us are.” But, added Blunt, “Why did he keep the Tupperware? I don’t want it! I’m not going to put the leftover pesto in it. Just chuck it!”
  • Speaking of The Fall Guy, Blunt discussed starring as the movie-within-a-movie’s director opposite Ryan Gosling as its stunt double. Directed by David Leitch, the action-comedy also features Hannah Waddingham, Winston Duke, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Stephanie Hsu. We hope you join our hosts for this Hot Topic and so much more this morning on GTU!