Still, he had good reason to be anxious at the screening: With A Quiet Place, he made a horror movie for grown-ups, exploding the genre by eschewing gore, deploying silence as an instrument of suspense and focusing on familial love. He still wonders whether he deserved what he calls his “lottery ticket” breakout role as paper salesman Jim Halpert on the American version of The Office, which he landed after studying playwriting and English literature at Brown University and working his way through small movie roles. Krasinski, now 39, seems modest by nature and nurture: He was raised in a Boston suburb by loving parents-his father a doctor and his mother a nurse-who reinforced family values and a how-can-I-help attitude in him and his two brothers, both older.

Sitting in the car, he thought: “If people clapped, that would be really cool.” So Blunt suggested that he focus on a single expectation for the screening.

Nearly 20 years into his career, Krasinski had directed other features ( Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, The Hollars ) and held his own acting opposite formidable co-stars. L ast March John Krasinski and his wife, Emily Blunt, were driving to the world premiere of their first collaboration- A Quiet Place -at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas.

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