--- description: Emily Blunt tells Conan how she nearly killed her ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ co-star. title: Emily Blunt On The Time She Almost Killed Tom Cruise image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5caf3da6e60b0af9/6986965bcd804d668cccb558/494163111.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Emily Blunt: I Almost Killed Tom Cruise by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 5, 2014 3:21 PM CUT  Actors Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt attend the 'Edge Of Tomorrow' Photocall at Cinema UGC Normandie on May 28, 2014 in Paris, France. Actors Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt attend the 'Edge Of Tomorrow' Photocall at Cinema UGC Normandie on May 28, 2014 in Paris, France.Marc Piasecki—GC Images by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 5, 2014 3:21 PM CUT On _Conan_ Wednesday, Emily Blunt revealed she nearly killed her co-star Tom Cruise on the set for the upcoming film _Edge of Tomorrow_. Blunt was in a car doing stunts with Crusie when she hit the brakes too late and slammed right into a tree. “I hear him going brake, brake, brake, ” she said. “When I first heard him say break, in my head I went, ‘oh shut up, ‘as if I knew more about stunt driving than Tom Cruise.” _Edge of Tomorrow_ arrives in theaters Friday, June 6th. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2826624/emily-blunt-tom-cruise/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2826624/emily-blunt-tom-cruise/"},"headline":"Emily Blunt: I Almost Killed Tom Cruise","datePublished":"2014-06-05T15:21:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:14:13.448Z","description":"'As if I knew more about stunt driving than Tom Cruise'","url":"https://time.com/2826624/emily-blunt-tom-cruise/","keywords":["celebrities","Actors","Conan O'brien","Movie","tom cruise","emily blunt"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5caf3da6e60b0af9/6986965bcd804d668cccb558/494163111.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5caf3da6e60b0af9/6986965bcd804d668cccb558/494163111.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"'Edge Of Tomorrow' Paris Photocall Outside Arrivals At UGC Normandie","caption":"'Edge Of Tomorrow' Paris Photocall Outside Arrivals At UGC Normandie","creditText":"Marc Piasecki—GC Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2826624/emily-blunt-tom-cruise/","name":"Emily Blunt: I Almost Killed Tom Cruise"}}]}] ```