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Amy Adams and the Benefits of Doubt
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MM: So you were unhappy before that?
AA: I was too consumed with the ins and outs of my career as opposed to enjoying the work. Doing Junebug helped me really get back to enjoying the work and realizing that I do want to be an actress, and if that means nobody ever sees anything I do, that’s got to be okay. If that means I teach during the day and do a play at night, that’s got to be okay. I had to stop defining success by how society defines success.
MM: It’s ironic that as soon as you made your peace with relative obscurity, Junebug flung you into the spotlight.
AA: That was so bizarre. I remember being at Sundance the day after the awards ceremony. We were walking down the street at night and the snow started falling, and it was the most beautiful thing. I just thought… Oh no! You caught me on a weak day. It was just a… [crying]beautiful moment. Something changed. To see the way that character affected people just blew me away. People really opened up to me because of Ashley, and I was so honored by that. It is a very common thing, miscarriages and pre-term births. I just don’t think people allow women to grieve for children that were never born.
MM: That’s very true.
AA: At the time I was doing it, both of my sisters were pregnant with their first kids and one of them was having a hard pregnancy. She was having a lot of pre-term contractions and was on bed rest, so it was just a crazy year. I don’t know why I’m emotional, but that was probably the most impactful thing that’s ever happened in my career. It opened up a lot of opportunities for me to get to do all sorts of things. I got to do Enchanted! I read that, and I was like, ‘Sorry other girls, nobody else is going to play this.’ I felt like I had been in training my whole life to play Giselle.
MM: What extra work goes into a musical?
AA: I trained for three or four months to do the recording; I was determined not to have to bring in someone else to sing for her. The musical numbers, they can take about two weeks, and it’s so tedious. The big white dress had steel hoops, because it was so big that anything else would collapse.
MM: Do you think the animated version of Giselle looks like you?
AA: She looks like a Disney version; they bring out the best in you. If Darren were to do a drawing of me, it probably wouldn’t be quite as flattering. But it was really cool to see how they captured my movements, how I informed the animation and how they informed me.
MM: How did you create that sense of profound dislocation when Giselle crawls out of the manhole into New York City?
AA: I was listening to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. I wanted something that had that really dreamy, druggy, crazy quality, where you just felt so out of your element and that you’ve been on some strange journey.
MM: Have you used music to help you get into character lately?
AA: Well, oddly enough [Night at the Museum 2 director] Shawn Levy does it. He’ll play music during scenes that don’t involve dialogue, like when Amelia Earhart sees the entire Air and Space Museum and rockets and what happened after her and she is so inspired. It made so much sense to me, because I’m such a musical person.
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- Comment by on 7/14/09 at 9:32 am
I love Amy Adams. She’s a great actress and is great on Enchanted and Night at the Museum 2. I look forward to seeing her with a more serious roles
- Comment by erbs palsy on 8/11/09 at 8:52 am
I think Amy Adams is a great actor and in an early age I think her career is just starting. She has a certain charm and the way she portrays her roles makes the character very believable.
- Comment by sonia on 8/19/09 at 8:45 am
I think its a nice change that Amy doesn’t attempt to hide anything about her relationships like others. It just means that she doesn’t have to constantly fight the media in hiding stories.
- Comment by bluesea on 2/20/10 at 5:05 pm
Thanks for this informative Topic
Keep it up- Comment by bluesea on 2/20/10 at 5:10 pm
Thanks for this informative Topic
Keep it up- Comment by toplist on 6/10/10 at 7:44 am
Who pays the piper calls the tune
- Comment by logo on 8/24/11 at 4:40 am
Nice article
Thank you very much I am happy to read this article ..
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This story was published in the Fall 2008 MovieMaker Magazine. The headline was:
Benefit of Doubt
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