Rachel McAdams covers the February issue of Glamour Magazine. I can’t really say that I’m a huge fan of the cover shoot. It’s trying too hard to be “cheeky” and “cute-sexy” I think. Rachel has a natural “cuteness” and a girl-next-door sex appeal, so I don’t know why they had to take her pants off and get her to flash some ass cheek. It’s unseemly! Tut tut. Anyway, Rachel is promoting that sappy-looking The Vow, where she and Channing Tatum are love interests, sort of. Some may think that playing Channing Tatum’s love interest in a sappy girl movie is a career downturn for Rachel. They may be right, but I not on the Channing-bashing bandwagon. He’s a nice, funny, down-to-earth guy who never bad-mouths his early career choices, even when those career choices were “being a stripper in Tampa.” Plus, “Southern accent” doesn’t equal “moron”. Rachel could certainly do worse for a romantic costar. Anyway, you can read her full Glamour Q&A here, and here are some highlights:

Dyeing her hair pink: “I always wanted pink hair. I wanted to do my whole head, but my hairstylist, Robert, was like, “How about we start small?” I absolutely loved it. I still think about doing blue at some point, but I don’t like to change my hair before I’m about to do [a film]—you never know what that character’s going to be.”

Creating a character with clothes: “Yeah, I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It’s preferable when it’s not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can’t afford these Christian Louboutins. [The stylist] will say, “No one will notice.” And I’m like, “Everyone knows that red-bottom shoe!”

She’s silly: “I’m very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

Mentors: “Diane Keaton, whom I’ve done two movies with. She’s a very caring and loving person. I love to listen to her stories.”

She worked at McDonald’s for three years: “Yeah, for a good three years. My sister and brother worked there. My sister was my manager! I was 16 and directing kids’ theater, which didn’t totally pay the bills. It was a great place to work, but I had a little bit of an OCD thing with hand washing and just didn’t have time. They were like, “Hey, the drive-through’s backing up. Stop washing your hands!” I was not a great employee; I broke the orange juice machine one day.”

Life outside of Hollywood: “[Paparazzi invasions do] happen, especially around the time a movie’s coming out. But I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto’s my home.”

Dating costars: “A set may seem like a good place for romance, but I don’t think it’s very conducive; it’s too distracting. Every relationship I’ve had with a coworker has come after the fact, because you wind up actually spending a lot of time with those people promoting the movie.”

On The Notebook: “Well, I bawled my eyes out when I got the script. It was a great story and had so much heart. But it was one of the first big things I had done, and I was just focused on getting through it. It was like, great, a job, I’ll take it.”

On Channing Tatum: “I was worried we might not [have great chemistry], because we were more like brother and sister, like buds. Channing is very outgoing, very kind and a lot of fun to work with.”

Her favorite costars: “It’s an embarrassment of riches. I love Owen [Wilson] in Midnight in Paris. He’s so endearing, and it was a completely different kind of relationship from the one we had in Wedding Crashers.”

Crushes on actors: “I loved soap operas when I was young, so Antonio Sabato Jr. and Maurice Benard from General Hospital. And who could forget Josh Brolin in The Goonies?”

GLAMOUR: I’ve heard you don’t read your press. Do you read about other people?
RACHEL MCADAMS: Not really, no.
GLAMOUR: So you’re not aware that Ryan Gosling has become a huge feminist icon?
RACHEL MCADAMS: Feminist icon? Wow! Is that real?
GLAMOUR: There are blogs upon blogs!
RACHEL MCADAMS: Oh my God, that’s great.

[Via Glamour]

I would love to know if Rachel and Ryan Gosling still talk. I would love to know what she really thinks about his Disneyland hookups and his “thing” with Eva Mendes. But hopefully, he’s not even on her radar anymore. I believe that she and Michael Sheen are happy together. And I really do think that there’s a good chance they’ll get married. I know some of you are Sheen-haters, but that man is delicious. I would take him over Gosling any day of the week.

Here’s the trailer for The Vow:

PS… I’d really love for Rachel to give up the blonde. I don’t think it does her any favors. She should do a really soft auburn.

Glamour shots courtesy of The Mail.