In 2010, Amy Adams gave birth to her first child, a baby girl that Amy and her fiancé named Aviana. Aviana is a little cutie, and Amy joined the ranks of “Hollywood mothers who appeal to normal, non-celebrity folk.” Like, my mom loves Amy Adams. Amy Adams and Jennifer Garner are her “other” daughters. I think Amy and Jennifer are probably a lot alike – they both seem low-key, and both seem to prioritize motherhood and raising children away from Hollywood drama. I would even say that Amy succeeds in having less drama than Jennifer, honestly, and I find Amy more genuine and relatable.
So will Amy double-down on her “Hollywood Moms Are Just Like Us” cred and have another baby? That’s what these photos are about – Fame Pictures says that Amy has a small baby bump in these pics. Do you see it? I’ve been looking, and I think I see a hint of something other than a complete flat stomach, but it could totally be a simple case of a baggy, not-so-flattering blouse. It could also be Amy’s self-described “muffin top” since her first pregnancy. Whatever is going on, I wish her well. It wouldn’t surprise me if she was pregnant again, but then again, she loves to work. She just signed on for a new movie with Clint Eastwood, so she’s probably not knocked up.
I’m also including a photo of Amy’s guy, Darren Le Gallo with their daughter Aviana. This family is really good-looking.
To put things mildly, Henry Cavill is about to bust onto the mainstream scene in a huge way, which will meet with a very bittersweet reaction from fans who admired him from afar during his work on “The Tudors” and don’t exactly want to see him ogled by the masses. Still, Cavill deserves success and his humility allows him to simultaneously reveal that he was once called “Fat Cavill” while he presently refuses CGI abs and chooses to do it himself instead. So it comes as no surprise that Henry is very popular with the ladies during the ongoing filming of Zack Snyder’s upcoming Man of Steel reboot in Vancouver. In my mind, Cavill merely endures all of the attention while unwinding from a hard day’s work of flexing his muscles. He’s only trying to enjoy a few gin and tonics instead of looking for some tail, right?
Oddly enough, Star magazine has painted Cavill as a ladies man about town who is now flanked by the likes of overeager Adrian Grenier, whose IMDb profile confirms a very “Entourage”-heavy body of work and whose latest acting work is a film called True Bromance. Really, Henry?
Gorgeous British actor Henry Cavill, 28, is taking his role as Superman very seriously. The dashing Man of Steel star has become quite the superstud in Vancouver, Canada, where the film is being shot. “His spot is Pierre et Chinois,” an insider tells In Touch. “He goes all the time. As soon as he arrives, ladies start swarming around — he is never with fewer than five beautiful women!” His wingman? Entourage‘s Adrian Grenier. “The have become tight and have a lot of fun!” says the insider. “Henry is popular in Vancouver. He’s invited to lots of parties!”
[From Star, print edition, January 9, 2012]
This story seemed slightly off to me because Adrian’s got nothing to do with Man of Steel, and I couldn’t figure out why he would be so connected to Vancouver. However, it seems that he was “blown away“ by the city’s beauty in early December while he was there to promote his latest producing project, Teenage Paparazzo, which probably means that he was only digging the chicks. Perhaps one evening, he ran into Cavill at the aforementioned Pierre et Chinois, and was only too happy to pick up the leftovers. That’s pretty believable.
Fortunately, Cavill fans can be comforted by a recent interview with Amy Adams, who plays Lois Lane in Man of Steel and (while promoting her role in The Muppets, declared that ““Henry Cavill is very Kermitty! There is a humility to Henry and that’s one of the reasons his Superman is going to be so compelling.” Thank goodness for Amy Adams, and now we can forget all about Adrian Grenier once again.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Pacific Coast News, and AllMoviePhoto
Amy Adams covers the new issue of InStyle Magazine, all to promote her role in The Muppets. I know many of you find Amy to be rather blah, and she is – she’s actively boring and she’s not really a famewhore, although there have been more photos of her with her daughter Aviana recently, which makes me think she might be taking notes from Jennifer Garner’s Dimple Parade. Basically, my mother loves her. I think Amy is probably a favorite amongst moms. She seems “real” – she hasn’t lost all of the pregnancy weight, she seems vulnerable and honest, she isn’t putting herself out there as some Goop-style elitism expert. You could see yourself belonging to the same gym as Amy. You could see making small talk with her in an elevator. She seems grounded. Anyway, here are some highlights from Amy’s InStyle interview:
Balancing her career, her engagement and motherood: “I have to trust that I can prioritize my family and myself while still finding the energy and focus for my work. And I believe I can. I know I can.”
Losing the pregnancy weight: “I read about these actresses who get on a stationary bike two weeks after giving birth and I’m like, ‘What? Where did you push your baby out of?’ Since having Aviana, I have a muffin top, and that’s okay right now.”
Motherhood: For Adams, motherhood has meant forgoing the makeup, putting off the pampering, and embracing the dried cereal all over her car. Fortunately, she adds, it has all paid off in the long run. “I’m definitely not one of those women who make it look easy. I’m always running late — and look, there’s guacamole on my purse! But I’m more patient than I ever thought I would be, and I’m not so hard on myself anymore.”
She will marry Darren Le Gallo: They have yet to tie the knot, the couple — who divide household duties between themselves; Adams does laundry while he washes bottles — admit the nuptials are likely to be sooner rather than later. “I’ll say to Darren, ‘What do you think of May?’ and he’ll say, ‘May. Ha, ha. You just let me know.’ I just can’t decide!” she laughs, despite her opinion that marriage is not “the only way to sustain a relationship. I am putting more pressure on myself now that we have Avi. I’ll figure it out soon.”
Date nights: “[They include] a lot of food and maybe a glass of wine,” she reveals. “We’re always like, ‘It’s 11:30! Woo-hoo! We’re crazy!’”
Defining herself: “There’s danger in defining your identity. I accept that life is a series of transitions. You think you know who you are, but then something comes along to make you question everything.”
Keeping clothes from her movies: “I do have a pair of gorgeous Christian Louboutins that I wore in Leap Year. They’re stored in their little dust covers in a box in my closet.”
She probably also kept her nun’s habit from Doubt, just because it comes in handy with her squeaky-clean image. One of my favorite quotes from Amy was (I’m paraphrasing) something about how people are always stunned when she utters a curse word. She really is like a Disney princess. Oh, and I love that she talks about her muffin top. She’s adorable.
Here are some photos of Amy from the premiere of The Muppets:
InStyle Photos courtesy of Celebrity Gossip. Additional pics by Fame.
This is actually the smartest move that the producers of the latest Superman reboot have made thus far. Previous casting choices include British hottie Henry Cavill as Superman, Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as his adoptive family, the Kents, and now we finally have a Lois Lane. Producers went for bouncy and sassy and mom-approved: Amy Adams. Crap, my mom is going to want to see this now! That’s the genius of it, you know? Moms love her. They will see her in anything. She’s adorable, and she‘s like a real-life Disney princess (according to my mom). But now I’m concerned that they’ll make Amy dye her pretty red hair. Lois has always been a brunette, right?
This just in — three-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams will play journalist Lois Lane in Hollywood’s revival of “Superman.”
The 36-year-old star got the news on Sunday from director Zack Snyder, who phoned her from Paris, where he was promoting his just-opened film, “Sucker Punch.” There had been a crush of Hollywood interest in the lead female role in the Warner Bros. project but Snyder said that after meeting with Adams, she was the clear choice to take on a character that dates back to 1938 and has long represented the strong, professional woman who can hold her own against any man – even if he can leap tall buildings in a single bound.
“There was a big, giant search for Lois,” Snyder said. “For us it was a big thing and obviously a really important role. We did a lot of auditioning but we had this meeting with Amy Adams and after that I just felt she was perfect for it.”
Snyder declined to discuss the precise prominence of Lois in the story or any plot details about the film but he said the role is “a linchpin” to the project and that he considers it essential that Lois — an FDR-era creation – arrives on screen in 2012 with contemporary appeal and spirit.
“It goes back to what I’ve said about Superman and making him really understandable for today. What’s important to us is making him relevant and real and making him empathetic to today’s audience so that we understand the decisions he makes. That applies to Lois as well. She has to be in the same universe as him [in tone and substance].”
Adams has shown an affinity for finding the plucky but pitch-perfect center of old-school roles; in the cartoonish ”Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” she brought a surprising amount of yearning emotion to the role of a simplified Amelia Earhart and she won rave reviews for the role of Giselle in “Enchanted” and its sly send-up of Disney princess traditions that date back to “Snow White,” which premiered just six months before Lois Lane hit newsstands in the pages of Action Comics No. 1.
Adams is coming off an Academy Award nomination for her work in ”The Fighter,” the David O. Russell film that took her into far darker territory; she played a bartender named Charlene who is fire-tested and fierce in her love for a down-but-not-out boxer portrayed by Mark Wahlberg. The film earned an Oscar win for Christian Bale, who played Wahlberg’s deliriously drugged-out brother, and he will be in the other big superhero film of 2012, “The Dark Knight Rises,” which will see Bale back in the cowl of Batman.
The big breakthrough for Adams was “Junebug,” which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, where Adams won a special jury prize for her performance. The star’s other notable credits include ”Doubt,” Julie & Julia,” “Sunshine Cleaning,“ “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” and “Charlie Wilson’s War.” Later this year, she will be seen in both “On the Road” (an adaptation of the famed Jack Kerouac novel) and in Disney’s new Muppets film.
I asked Snyder how it feels to be making a film where every casting choice is a global news flash. ”It’s an epic thing, no doubt. But this good news is the cast is shaping up to fit that.” In the still-untitled Superman film, Henry Cavill will play Clark Kent and the Man of Steel. Kevin Costner and Diane Lane are set to play the Kents, the adoptive parents of the last son of Krypton.
Yeah, Amy has been nominated for a bajillion Oscars (three, actually), and besides her side-gig as my mother’s “Princess Cinderella,” Amy can actually act her ass off. So, even though they’re casting a famous ginger as a famous brunette, I still like the choice. It could have been much, much worse. It could have been Jessica Biel, who was rumored for the role. It could have been Rachel Bilson (hahaha). It could have Linnocent!
Also – about her age: she’s nearly a decade older than Cavill… but I doubt it will be an issue. Amy can play younger, because she looks so young. Didn’t you do a double-take when you read her age?
Amy Adams and Mila Kunis had one thing in common last night – I was confused about their Oscar looks until I got a closer look at their hair styles. BOTH ladies sucked! Amy Adams’ hair was so bad, she actually had it tucked behind her ear for most of the red carpet. And it just looked… like she didn’t care. Like she had no idea how to put together a dress (L’Wren Scott), jewelry (Cartier) and hair (tacky). Amy was just a hot mess – she looked disorganized.
As for Mila – I liked the dress when I saw her strutting to the red carpet from her limo. I liked that the Elie Saab gown looked comfortable, and Mila looked like she knew how to wear it. But when she came closer to the cameras, and when she was being interviewed by Seacrest, the look fell apart. The lace detailing looked really trashy and like “lingerie as outerwear”. And the hair! God, it looked deflated, and it was like Mila’s hair stylist really had to work to make her look unattractive.
My mother’s pretty princess Cinderella, otherwise known as Amy Adams, is the cover girl for the February issue of InStyle UK. Now, my mother (and yours too, you know) may love the hell out of Amy, but the chick is a boring interview. She’s just so normal and well-adjusted and so not a famewhore in any way, shape or form. She’s a breath of fresh air, and she’s a wonderful actress. But, she’s a crappy interview. Anyway, in the excerpts I’ve found, she just talks about the baby weight from being pregnant with little Aviana:
She previously insisted she is in no rush to lose her baby weight – but Amy Adams how now confessed that she felt at her most beautiful when she was pregnant. The Oscar-nominated actress, who gave birth to her daughter Aviana eight months ago, told InStyle magazine that motherhood had changed her. And she added that having a child had brought out her softer side, and made her more vulnerable.
‘I can’t say, ‘I don’t care,” she said of being a mother. ‘I can’t be tough. There’s no truth to it. I love her. I need her in my life. I can’t pretend otherwise.’
As well as the interview, the 36-year-old showed just how much weight she had lost in a series of stunning photographs, styled by the magazine’s senior fashion editor Natalie Hartley. In the pictures, Amy poses in a series of fitted dresses and high heels, showing off an enviably slim figure. But despite this, she confessed in the interview that she has yet to lose all of her baby weight – and also revealed how much she enjoyed the pregnancy.
‘I never felt more beautiful than when I was pregnant,’ Amy said. ‘Because it wasn’t about me. The whole purpose of my body was no longer to fit into a sample size. It was to nurture another being. So I always felt great, no matter what I was wearing.’
Amy, who shot to stardom as Princess Giselle in Enchanted, could well be in line to add a third Oscar nomination to add to those she has already received for the films Junebug and Doubt, for her latest role as a feisty barmaid in The Fighter. The film, which also stars Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg, tells the true story of boxer ‘Irish’ Micky Ward and the brother who helped train him before he launched his professional career in the 1980s.
Amy said that one of the high points of the project for her was having the chance to work with Bale, whom she described as ‘awesome’. However she shares much of her screen time with Wahlberg, who plays Micky, and with whom her character becomes romantically involved.
‘David (O’Russell, the director), puts kisses into every scene,’ Amy said. ‘He said ‘okay now kiss, but like really kiss’. Mark was so sweet, he kept saying sorry because David didn’t want beautiful or soft kisses, he wanted sloppy Eighties music video kisses!’ she joked.
I love the way she describes the screen kisses – “sloppy Eighties music video kisses”. That cracks me up, because we all know that kiss, right? The one where your whole friggin’ face is wet, and it’s not hot, AT ALL. God, I cannot stand a guy with a sloppy mouth, I really can’t. It’s one of my peeves. You think Mark Wahlberg is a sloppy kisser? I doubt it, actually.
Actress Amy Adams has a new interview and Christmas photo spread with Parade Magazine. I love Amy and enjoy reading her interviews, but I have to say that her holiday photos are super cheesy. It’s like they’re channeling her Enchanted persona for Christmas. You get the impression that she’s somewhat like that, though, and that this photoshoot is closer to her real personality than any sexy half-dressed generic starlet spread.
Most outlets are pointing out that Amy is saying she’s not in a hurry to lose the weight she gained while she was pregnant. She’s filled out a little, sure, but I barely see the weight on her. You can tell that she’s not stick thin, but that’s about it. In Parade, Adams also talks about her relationship with her fiance, how they work out their differences and co-parent their daughter Aviana, 7 months.
Adams is promoting her role in The Fighter, alongside Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it earns her another Oscar nomination.
On the holidays
“There was always a lot of energy around my house during the holidays growing up–a lot of food, a lot of football. The whole season has a magical feeling for me that I don’t think ever goes away,” says this middle child of seven kids, who grew up mostly in Colorado and whose parents split when she was 11. As she does every December, she’ll call her dad to get the recipe for the family’s traditional Banana Ice (a frozen whipped concoction featuring bananas, orange juice, lemon juice, sugar, ice, and Sprite or 7-Up). This year, she’s also looking forward to starting some new traditions: “Just little things, like a certain candy in a certain dish,” she says. “I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.”
How she realized she was pregnant
Adams realized she was starting her own family one morning when she tugged at her refrigerator door. “I saw almond milk in the fridge–Darren drinks it, but I’d never tasted it–and it triggered an animal response,” she recalls. “I was like, ‘I need that,’ and I drank the entire carton in 10 minutes. I looked at Darren and said, ‘I think…yeah, I’m pregnant.’”
On finding pregnancy liberating
She describes the months that followed as one of the most liberating periods of her life. “Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body–meaning that it wasn’t put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit,” she says (though anyone who saw her 2008 pictorial homage to Rita Hayworth in Vanity Fair might disagree). “I was like, ‘Look, I can carry a baby! I’m gaining weight right, everything’s going well.’ And I’ve had that relationship ever since.” Since the birth, she adds, “I’ve been working out when I can, and I’m trying to eat in a healthful way, but losing weight is not my number-one priority. It’s part of my job to return to some semblance of what I was before. But I don’t feel I’ve ever made my career on my rockin’ bod.”
On toning up for her role
The role [in The Fighter] required Adams to wear short shorts and a crop top for the bar scenes and lingerie in the bedroom with Wahlberg. “David said, ‘This is kind of how we see her dressing,’” she recalls, “And I said, ‘I’m getting in a gym, ’cause there’s no way I’m going to end up not looking my best.’” But Russell KO’d that impulse, telling her he didn’t want her to look like an actress who’d gotten in shape for a role. “He said, ‘I want you to look like a girl who drinks beer,’” the actress recalls with a laugh.
On her relationship with her fiance
Le Gallo [Adams' fiance] has also turned out to be “a great swaddler” and helpmate in managing the work/parenting balancing act. The couple, who met in acting class, have been together nine years, but the birth of their daughter has deepened their relationship, Adams says. “Now we understand the importance of teamwork. And if we have a disagreement, we work toward a solution.” They have a policy of never spending more than two weeks apart. For example, when Adams went to New Orleans in August to film an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Le Gallo and Aviana joined her for the 11-day shoot. At home in Los Angeles, they share baby night-shift duties and have a dinner date once a week. As for a wedding, she says it’s going to happen but isn’t sure exactly when–she hasn’t been able to wrap her head around the planning process.
Mostly, Adams says, she’s been learning to focus on the moment and not be too hard on herself. “The best advice I’ve gotten as a parent is, ‘You’re not gonna be perfect,’” she says with a chuckle at the understatement. “Take today–she’s teething and I want to be in there with her. But I also want to do a good job here for everybody who worked on the film.”
She pushes back a lock of her naturally strawberry-blond hair. “I actually love my work more now, ’cause I feel if I’m going to be away from her, I’d better enjoy it. I’m trying to be more present in each moment of my life. She’s taught me that.”
Amy doesn’t say anything particularly personal or groundbreaking, but I love to cover her because she’s just so damn normal. Plus we never hear from her unless she has a film to promote and that’s refreshing. Parade also has a recipe from Amy for “guilt free” pumpkin pie with Splenda. I hate Splenda because my son is allergic to it. Regular sugar (or Stevia) has to be much healthier than anything that gives people rashes. Regular sugar also goes along with the whole theme Amy stresses in this interview. She says that her family’s signature holiday drink involves 7-up and that she’s putting out candy in a specific dish to create a tradition. And she’s not pushing herself to lose weight. So let’s see a recipe with real sugar and butter! It feels good to have something minor to criticize her about.
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.”
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.
There was a big screening of The Fighter over the weekend in NYC, and all of the leads came out to support the film. Mark Wahlberg (lead and producer) wore an extremely shiny suit, Christian Bale actually showed up (shocking) and everybody’s favorite princess Amy Adams worked this black batwing Roland Mouret dress. I find it particularly hideous, honestly, but it does crack me up a little how Amy is trying to be all “high fashion, street” with this look. It’s like she doesn’t even realize that to so many people, she’s just a redheaded Disney princessy sweetheart. People like my mother. Have I ever told you how much my mother LOVES Amy Adams? Like, my mother is loony for her, obsessed with her. I had to promise to take my mom to see The Fighter, and all she really knows about it is that Amy is in it. This is some sample dialogue from my mother: “She’s the prettiest princess, ever!” Me: “Mom, the film isn’t even about her – she’s playing second fiddle to Mark and Christian.” Mom: “I don’t care. She’s always going to be my pretty princess.” Hand to God.
Here’s Mark and Christian…
Can I just say something? I’m really, really shocked at how “up for it” Christian Bale seems – like he’s making the effort to not be a surly, grumpy “artist” for the promotion of this film. Is it because of a potential Oscar campaign…? Well, The Fighter has a pretty good chance at some Oscars this year, and everyone involved is doing a pretty good job at selling this movie, I have to say. It helps that Mark Wahlberg is not only the lead, but a producer, and Hollywood movers and shakers seem to really like Mark – remember, he was the only actor in the cast of The Departed to get an Oscar nomination. And he’s a solid producer too – did you know that in addition to his success with Entourage, he’s also executive producing In Treatment and episodes of Boardwalk Empire, both highly acclaimed shows? So is Mark ordering Christian to just suck it up and campaign for an Oscar? I would love to know their dynamic, I really would.
Amy Adams was spotted outside Good Morning America yesterday with her fiance, actor and artist Darren Le Gallo, and their nearly seven month-old daughter, Aviana. I think we’ve seen Aviana before, but I just can’t get over what an adorable baby she is – and she has her mom’s gorgeous red hair!
Adams is promoting her role in The Fighter, out December 10, in which she plays Mark Wahlberg’s girlfriend. She told Robin Roberts on Good Morning America yesterday (video below) that she took boxing lessons to prepare for her ‘feisty’ role but that her experience as one of seven siblings also gave her experiences to draw on. They showed a clip from the film and it looks incredible. There’s Oscar buzz around this film, and Amy has of course already been nominated for an Oscar this early in her career. She’s certainly made some excellent film choices and she’s one of my favorite actresses. I love how low key and normal she is without making a point of it.
On motherhood, she told Robin “it’s really really good, it’s fantastic. Aviana is here actually. She comes with me everywhere.” She also explained that she didn’t want her career to affect her daughter at all “I want her to feel that she has her own identity, and her identity isn’t caught up in what I do. That’s really important for me.” You know, we see so little of Amy when she doesn’t have a film to promote that it’s a real treat to watch her interviews. She’s always impressed me.
Here are more photos and Amy’s interview. Doesn’t she look so much like Mariah Carey in that one photo below? I think it’s her hair and sunglasses, plus she’s making an expression like Mariah always does.
