In a meta sense the Emily Blunt casting is awesome in a way that will never be appreciated by future generations. She was in 2015 still in the honeymoon phase of her Edge of Tomorrow role where she was lauded as the vanguard of Action Girl casting. So she’s cast in the lead in Sicario deliberately as a false lead type of trick, where she’s marketed as this badass Action Girl fed but actually she’s a hopeless Fish Out Of Water Audience Surrogate who doesn’t have the stomach in the least for what she’s been conscripted into and in fact is so far out of her depth she doesn’t realize how badly she’s being manipulated until it’s completely laid out to her.

That Edge of Tomorrow hype has faded now over the years and it’s something extremely subtle that people who didn’t live through it will realize unless it’s told to them.