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Puzzle #777: Emily Blunt → Oscar Isaac

Thursday, October 1, 2026

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Oscar IsaacOscar Isaac

On Thursday, October 1, 2026, the daily puzzle asked players to link Emily Blunt and Oscar Isaac. The two have never been credited in the same movie, so there's no one-move answer. But 24 actors have worked with both of them in their best-known films, so it can be done in just 2 moves.

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The shortest solution

Show the 2-move answer (spoiler)
  1. Emily Blunt as Kate Macer in Sicario (2015), which also stars Josh Brolin as Matt Graver.
  2. Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck in Dune (2021), alongside Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides.

The full chain: Emily Blunt → Sicario (2015) → Josh Brolin → Dune (2021) → Oscar Isaac.

Other ways to solve it

Show 3 more 2-move routes (spoilers)
  • Emily Blunt → The Girl on the Train (2016) → Rebecca Ferguson → Dune (2021) → Oscar Isaac
  • Emily Blunt → Oppenheimer (2023) → David Dastmalchian → Dune (2021) → Oscar Isaac
  • Emily Blunt → Sicario (2015) → Benicio del Toro → Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) → Oscar Isaac

About Emily Blunt

Born
February 23, 1983 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Film career
2005–2026
Widely seen films
36 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:

About Oscar Isaac

Born
March 9, 1979 in Guatemala City, Guatemala
Film career
2000–2026
Widely seen films
41 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain: