When John Krasinski learned that he would be named PEOPLE’s 2024 Sexiest Man Alive, he wasn’t quite sure what to think.“
Just immediate blackout, actually. Zero thoughts,” he tells the magazine in this week’s cover story. “Other than maybe I’m being punked. That’s not how I wake up, thinking, ‘Is this the day that I’ll be asked to be Sexiest Man Alive?’ And yet it was the day you guys did it. You’ve really raised the bar for me.”
Fans may recognize Krasinski as a prank-loving, crush-worthy paper salesman, a passionate former Marine who became a CIA agent, or a loving family man who sacrifices himself for love. However, the 45-year-old actor would rather just be a husband and father who enjoys bedtime stories with his children and binges-watches Netflix documentaries.
Actress Emily Blunt, 41, his wife of 14 years, and their daughters Hazel, 10, and Violet, 8, now reside in Brooklyn. Krasinski claims that Blunt was “very excited” to hear the momentous news: “There was a lot of joy involved in me telling her.”
The actress has even joked that if her husband won the crown, she would use the cover as wallpaper in their home. “Is that captured on camera? Because that’s like a binding contract, I think,” he says. “That will not be strange at all; my kids will love it.”
More about Krasinki
Known for playing Jim Halpert on the popular television show The Office for nine years, Krasinski co-wrote, directed, and starred with Blunt in the 2018 thriller A Quiet Place. Due to its enormous success, two sequels were made, and Krasinski, who was ripped for Michael Bay’s 13 Hours, managed to stay in good form to portray the title character, Jack Ryan, for four seasons of the well-liked Prime Video series that is now slated to be made into a movie.
