--- title: Emily Blunt Talks US Citizenship Test, Queen Elizabeth II description: And she feels a little sad about it canonical: https://time.com/4026340/emily-blunt-us-citizenship/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-09T15:00:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:26.515Z og:title: Emily Blunt Had to Renounce the Queen to Become a U.S. Citizen og:description: And she feels a little sad about it og:url: https://time.com/4026340/emily-blunt-us-citizenship/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emily Blunt Had to Renounce the Queen to Become a U.S. Citizen twitter:description: And she feels a little sad about it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Emily Blunt Had to Renounce the Queen to Become a U.S. Citizen by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 9, 2015 3:00 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 9, 2015 3:00 PM UTC Emily Blunt, star of the upcoming movie _Sicario_, stopped by _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ Tuesday night, where she revealed that she recently became a U.S. citizen. The British actress, who now has dual citizenship, shared lots of fun stories about the swearing-in ceremony. For example: Matthew McConaughey’s wife, Camila Alves, was also getting sworn in, so McConaughey showed up “looking like he was going on safari.” Blunt also told Kimmel that she was required to renounce Queen Elizabeth II and, of course, take a written citizenship test. “It is the hardest test I’ve ever had to take. I guarantee most Americans would have no idea how to answer any of these questions.” _Read next:_ [_See Every TIME Cover Featuring Queen Elizabeth II_](http://time.com/4020008/queen-elizabeth-ii-time-covers/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4026340/emily-blunt-us-citizenship/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4026340/emily-blunt-us-citizenship/"},"headline":"Emily Blunt Had to Renounce the Queen to Become a U.S. Citizen","datePublished":"2015-09-09T15:00:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:26.515Z","description":"And she feels a little sad about it","url":"https://time.com/4026340/emily-blunt-us-citizenship/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4026340/emily-blunt-us-citizenship/","name":"Emily Blunt Had to Renounce the Queen to Become a U.S. Citizen"}}]}] ```