Workplace romances are notoriously tricky: not only do you have to spend a lot of time with your partner, but you also have to leave all of your personal issues at the door when you enter the office – and find a way to deal with the fact that all of your colleagues have an opinion (whether they air it or not) about your relationship.

So it’s understandable that John Krasinski was unsure how things would go down when he and his wife, Emily Blunt, decided to work together for the first time.

The couple have been married for almost a decade now, but The Quiet Place – out in cinemas on the 6 April – is the first feature film they’ve ever worked on together. Thankfully, though, Krasinski has said that the experience only brought them closer together – and added that the pair now love one another on a far deeper level than they did before.

Speaking to People magazine, he said: “I never have loved my wife more than after we did this movie, and we were really nervous about it. It really could’ve gone the other way, we could be announcing our divorce right now if it did go the wrong way.

“But I think for me, it was a trust thing. We trust each other in day-to-day life for sure, but when you trust each other in this way it’s really different. But the way we went about it was sort of the way we go about our marriage, which is ‘Let’s be really honest. Let’s be honest from the beginning so that nothing surprises us, but we get to say all the things we feel.’

“So I let her go through the script and let me know any changes she wanted to make, I pitched the entire movie to her and said how we were gonna shoot it and said ‘Is there anything you’d change?’

“We were really honest with each other from the beginning. By the time we were shooting, it was just the best.”

John Krasinski on how working with Emily Blunt impacted their marriage