John Krasinski is explaining how he convinced his wife, Emily Blunt, to appear in A Quiet Place Part II. That’s the sequel to his excruciatingly tense horror of 2018, about a family who live silently to evade alien monsters that hunt by sound. You may recall that Blunt had a rum old time of it in the first film (and if you’ve not seen it, beware spoilers imminent). Her character, Evelyn, lost one son, Beau, and a husband, Lee, played by Krasinski, to the monsters and had to give birth soundlessly — after stepping, hard, on a foot-long nail.
The movie, which the Boston-born Krasinski, 40, directed and co-wrote, was a worldwide hit, grossing more than $340 million. A sequel was inevitable. Blunt was
