John Krasinski Is PEOPLE’s 2024 Sexiest Man Alive!

John Krasinski wasn’t precisely certain what to suppose when he received phrase that he was being topped PEOPLE’s 2024 Sexiest Man Alive.

“Simply rapid blackout, really. Zero ideas,” he tells the journal on this week’s cowl story. “Apart from possibly I am being punked. That is not how I get up, considering, ‘Is that this the day that I will be requested to be Sexiest Man Alive?’ And but it was the day you guys did it. You guys have actually raised the bar for me.”

Whereas followers would possibly know Krasinski as a crush-worthy, prank-loving paper salesman, or an intense former Marine turned CIA agent, or a faithful household man sacrificing himself for love, the actor, 45, prefers simply being a husband and father, who binges Netflix documentaries and relishes bedtime tales along with his youngsters.

Now residing in Brooklyn along with his spouse of 14 years, actress Emily Blunt, 41, and their daughters Hazel, 10, and Violet, 8, Krasinski says Blunt was “very excited” when she heard the massive information: “There was numerous pleasure concerned in me telling her.”

The actress has even joked that she would wallpaper their home with the duvet if her husband obtained the crown. “Do we’ve that on digicam? As a result of that’s like a binding contract, I believe,” he says. “My kids will love that, it gained’t be bizarre in any respect.”

Beloved for his nine-year run as Jim Halpert on the hit sequence The Workplace, he cowrote, directed and starred alongside Blunt within the 2018 thriller A Quiet Place. Its huge success spawned two sequels, whereas Krasinski, who received ripped for Michael Bay’s 13 Hours, stayed in preventing form to play the titular Jack Ryan for 4 seasons on the favored Prime Video sequence, now set to grow to be a movie.

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With this yr’s film IF, which he additionally starred in, wrote, produced and directed, the actor solidified his standing as one among Hollywood’s prime filmmakers. Nonetheless, the transition took somewhat finessing. “I needed to pitch the studio like 54 occasions [for AQP] earlier than they stated sure,” jokes Krasinski, who subsequent stars with Natalie Portman within the motion heist movie Fountain of Youth. “I’m fairly certain somebody stated, ‘Sorry, is Jim from The Workplace going to direct this?’ And I went, ‘Oh, it’s John, however we’ll get there.’ ” 

Today Krasinski is asking his personal photographs and appreciates the life he’s constructed along with Blunt. “It’s that lovely factor the place once you’re married to somebody, you’re continually studying and altering and evolving,” he says. “And I’m so fortunate to undergo all that along with her.”

Not that his new title will change something: “I believe it may make me do extra family chores,” he jokes. “After this comes out, she’ll be like, ‘All proper, which means you’re going to actually earn it right here at house.’ ”

For extra of Krasinki’s unique interview and images, choose up this week’s problem of PEOPLE on newsstands Friday