John Krasinski Says The Bus Scene in A QUIET PLACE PART II Is Very Real, and May Have Put His Marriage on the Line

John Krasinski and his wife Emily Blunt are a powerhouse Hollywood couple who both have thriving acting careers and have had the chance to create a horror film and sequel together that have a huge fanbase. A Quiet Place Part II is set to release on March 20th, and Krasinski sat down with the cinemablend podcast crew and talked about some of the amazing stunts they pulled off in the film, namely the bus scene that we get to see at the beginning of the trailer, and it’s pretty crazy to hear it described.

He talked about describing the shot to Blunt before executing it. He said:

Emily's [stunt] is so real. I think I put my marriage on the line when I put her in the car. That's true. Like when I was explaining to her on set all the things that were going to happen and I said, ‘You're going to hit this stunt man, that car is going to come three feet from you and then this bus is actually going to clock at 40 miles an hour,' her face fell and she went, ‘But not really.’ And I went, ‘No, no, the bus is coming at you at 40 miles.’ That's a real bus, and that bus hits that car and all that is totally real.

So crazy! I know these shots get all planned out to keep everyone safe, but it would still be hard to get into a car that you knew was going to be nearly hit and chased down by a bus. Krasinski went on to praise Blunt for being such a trooper once she heard what needed to be done. He said:

But Emily, God love her, she still got in the car. But that little boy’s in the car. [Noah Jupe] is in the car. There's no switch. There's no nothing. And to go to those parents and say, ‘I promise you, Paramount safety, the stunt guys, they have all okayed this. This is all possible.’ You know, we had that bus on within a hair’s breadth of being able to stop. It had all these special breaks that he could stop real quick. So it's three weeks of rehearsal for one minute of shooting. And I said to Emily, I said, ‘Do you want to run it once?’ And she's awesome. She said, ‘No. Just put me in it.’ And so that take that's in the movie is her first day. So that’s her really saying ‘Jesus Christ’ and ‘Oh my God.’ Because she had no idea. It's like going on the best roller coaster ride of your life. That was the first take that we did.

Once you watch (or re-watch) the scene he’s describing in the trailer below, it will blow your mind to know that the scene they used was the first take! But it really makes sense seeing the shock and real panicked feel on Blunt’s face. It’s pretty exciting to get that behind-the-scenes context, and I think this trailer makes fans even more excited for this sequel. Check it out below, and let us know what you think.