Author Elle Purnell profileEmily Blunt has battled aliens with Tom Cruise, gone toe-to-toe with Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson in a hostile jungle, and fought deadly drug cartels as an FBI agent over the course of her movie career. You’d be forgiven for thinking she was Hollywood’s “it” tough girl. But that’s the last thing the actress, who stars in the recently released Western miniseries “The English,” wants to be.

“It’s the worst thing ever when you open a script and read the words: ‘strong female lead,’” she said in an interview with The Telegraph earlier this month. “That makes me roll my eyes — I’m already out. I’m bored.” …