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.