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Over the weekend, I was gently criticizing Amy Adams for wearing a hideous batwing Mouret dress, and I mentioned that my mom is Amy’s Superfan. Like, my mom calls her “a princess” and yells at me when I say anything that might suggest that Amy is anything less than Cinderella (seriously, my mom calls her “Cinderella”). So I’m going to get hell for this, but Amy’s Marie Claire cover shot is… not good. She looks pissy/weepy. I think Amy is very, very pretty. And talented, okay, mom? But this is not her best shot. What might be even worse, though, is the very un-Cinderella-like crotch shot below. Sigh… Cinderella could do so much better. But Amy is trying to change up her image – she does the Marie Claire interview while taking a pole dancing lesson. Full piece is here, and here are some highlights:
On her innocent image: “I did one interview when I was pregnant, and the writer said he thought people would be surprised to know that I had sex,” says Adams. “I didn’t know what to say. I was like, ‘Excuse me if it takes a minute to process the fact that you think I’m asexual.’ Anyway, there’s something great about the world thinking I’m so innocent. Only it’s not true.”
On being a hot mess: “In my 20s, boy,” she later confesses, shaking her head over a lunch of chicken and mashed potatoes, “I was a hot mess.”
On pole dancing: “Some mom friends said it’s a good way to lose the baby weight,” she says. “And I’ll do anything to get off of that treadmill.”
On her trashy role in The Fighter: “I had met with David about another movie that didn’t happen. Then he called about The Fighter. I was in Ireland doing the movie Leap Year, and he sent me 20 pages of the script. I was nearly on page 20 when I was like, ‘Wait, which part is for me?’” Adams says, laughing. “She was ready to play against type,” says Russell about choosing Adams. “A tough, sexy bitch. She has it and knows it, and she killed it. It opened up a whole side to her that’s exciting.”
More about The Fighter: “What’s funny is that some people who’ve seen it have said, ‘Amy, you’re finally playing yourself!’” says Adams. “It’s not that she’s like me. It’s just that she’s less naive. My other characters haven’t been tested. She has been through it.”
Amy on getting married: ” Darren and I would set a date, and then a project would come up and we’d push it. Then when we got pregnant, we were going to get married right away. And we will get married. But we didn’t want to rush and plan something just to do it the traditional way,” she explains.
On her fiancé/baby-daddy: “Darren’s not competitive with me, which is great. That just wouldn’t work,” she says, noting that things could change at any time and that one day their roles and profiles may be reversed. “We’re a family, and he’s really embraced his role as a father.”
[From Marie Claire]
I love the “hot mess” comment. I was a hot mess in my early 20s too. Weren’t we all? Also, Amy is really funny. In interviews, she’s sweet but funny, but the girl has great comedic chops on screen too. I recently saw that film, Leap Year, with my mother of course. Because my mom will watch anything with Cinderella. Anyway, it wasn’t as hideous as I expected, and Amy is completely watchable and adorable in everything. Ah, Cinderella.
Photos courtesy of Marie Claire.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Amy Adams
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She looks way better now!
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Does you mom still think of her as a princess in the crotch pic? Bet you ruined that image for her, Kaiser…lol!
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God bless mother Kaiser. Raising a child is such a challenge. You did good but “Cinderella Under Pants” had to called out.
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Each Christmas I get my mom a movie for her stocking. This year I will put Leap Year in it. I think my mom would like that movie and we didn’t see it together so we can watch it on Christmas night. I didn’t hate it but it has all been done before. I liked P.S. I Love You a lot more than Leap Year. I think my mom is now over Julia Roberts and Amy Adams is her new fave. We saw Enchanted in the theater and Julie and Julia. Mom hated Eat, Pray, Love, which we watched last Sunday together. About 3 hours into the movie she was like,”I am so over this War, Peace, Love, Crap. What is this movie called again?” Losing my mom as a fan is really Julia’s loss and Amy Adam’s gain.
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i really like her but i just don’t see her “tough bitch” persona taking off.
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Leap Year is an awesome movie!! So funny and clever and not too predictable. Matthew Goode is soooo hot!!
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ITA with you, Kaiser. She looks oddly angry/weepy in the picture… like someone really made her angry while also hurting her feelings, and she’s about to cry as a result. I don’t think that was what she was going for.
And Cinderella could SO do a better crotch shot. (Off topic, but am I the only one who *HATES* the platform heels that look like they have big wooden BLOCKS attached to the bottom? The look can be awesome if done right (in design), but in this case, it looks ridiculous… She’s not even standing to get the advantage from them.)
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I first saw this woman in ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ and laughed my ass off. amy was great, but it actually had a stellar female cast.
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Show your mom Drop Dead Gorgeous. It’s the first movie I saw with AA. She played one of the contestants. O man that’s one of my all-time favorite movies!
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I despise when people say “hot mess”
Ugh.
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Her boobs look great, though
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I’m 40 and I’m STILL a Hot Mess!
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So tired of the stripper shoes everywhere! Sigh.
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She IS very princess-y, but I also think she looks like Tonya Harding, so I think she’ll be great in the Fighter.
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@Dragonfly – thats why she’s sitting down! i have no idea how anyone could walk in those shoes
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Yay for the Drop Dead Gorgeous nods! One of the best movies of all time.
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Hoping she’ll be wise in her choise. I don’t wanto to see her in some trashy movie, and, yeah, she better not have hurry to change her image. She’s famous because of it. Nobody want a drastic change, so ok act less cinderella but don’t do the pole thing..we don’t want another “tough” bitch.
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She’s so average looking…
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she is so boring and plain-looking
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she reminds me of evan rachel woods in that last photo
yes to drop dead gorgeous!
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I loved Drop Dead Gorgeous too!
I am always surprised by how many people love it. Since it seemed to have died in the theaters.
Plus Denise Richards was great in it and it was the last time I recall Kirsten Durst being pretty.
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I never saw Drop Dead Gorgeous, I’ll have to check it out.
I think Amy is really pretty and talented, but I did not enjoy Leap Year one bit, and in her performance, it felt like she didn’t either. Just my 2 cents. Have really liked her in everything else though.
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I love Drop Dead Gorgeous! I don’t remember her being in it!
That header pic is BLECH. Bad.
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“I love Drop Dead Gorgeous! I don’t remember her being in it!”
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*Amy was the blonde perky cheerleader in Drop Dead Gorgeous.
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Who is this girl sleeping with to get these roles??? She cant act for beans and is so smug i cant stand it!
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She’s one of those maddening people who constantly remind me of someone else and it really blurs my perception of her. Weird!
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I really enjoyed Sunshine Cleaning. Was a good movie.
“She’s one of those maddening people who constantly remind me of someone else and it really blurs my perception of her. Weird!”
Are you getting her confused with Isla Fisher? It took me forever to tell them apart.
I’m in my 20s and I’m not a hot mess. Although there is still plenty of time left!
I was a hot mess in my teens, however.
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The world thinks she innocent? we arent stupid Amy we know those are roles. She needs to lose the ego. She was working a dinner theater a few yrs ago – that says it all about her “talent.”
She isnt hot – but she is a mess.
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girl, you STILL ARE.
yikes.
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I think she’ll have a great career. Her movies are good and she has an unusual beauty that can sneak up and then blow you away.
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I will forever remember her as having a guest role (when she was an unknown) in Buffy on tv.
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On her innocent image:
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On her innocent image:
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