Does Amy Adams Know Lines From Her Biggest Films?

Variety

Amy Adams guesses lines from 'Arrival' 'Man of Steel', working with Tom Ford on 'Nocturnal Animals' and talks how she got into acting.

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00:00Is the answer also on there, so I can cheat?

00:02Why can't I think of this?

00:03This is making me crazy. I know this one.

00:05Yes, that's it.

00:11Oh, I know this one.

00:12You need to rush to her side and pull her in your arms

00:14and then pour your heart out in a beautiful ballad.

00:17It's enchanted. Sorry.

00:19You need to rush to her side and pull her in your arms

00:22and then pour your heart out in a beautiful ballad.

00:26It was one of those dream come true moments for myself.

00:29When he's like, I want you to run over the hill,

00:32kind of like Julie Andrews in Sound of Music.

00:34I was like, oh, dreams do come true.

00:39What's the S stand for?

00:40That is for Man of Steel.

00:42She was pretty cheeky when she said this line.

00:44I didn't quite realize I sounded that cheeky

00:46until I watched it back.

00:48What's the S stand for?

00:50I always sort of pretended to play her

00:53when I was watching Margot Kidder.

00:55I had a lot of brothers and there was a lot of underoos.

00:57I don't know if you guys remember underoos.

00:59They looked like superheroes

01:00and they were like these pajamas slash underwear sets.

01:02So there was a lot of like towel capes

01:04and I would be like, well, I'm Lois Lane.

01:07Like I was always Lois Lane.

01:09So it was something that I'd always wanted to do.

01:11And then when Zach approached me,

01:13I was like, yes, yes, absolutely.

01:18I know this one too.

01:21Oh, stop calling me an MTV girl,

01:23whatever the fuck that means.

01:24That's from The Fighter.

01:25Cause Mickey's sisters call me an MTV girl,

01:28whatever the fuck that means.

01:30Stop calling me an MTV girl,

01:31whatever the fuck that means.

01:32I've ran out of swear words.

01:34There was one point where I was leaning outside of the window

01:37swearing at Christian Bale's character, Dickie.

01:39And David O. Russell was just like,

01:41think of some more.

01:42And across the street,

01:44they actually had hired a pastor

01:46to be the pastor walking the dog.

01:48And I just kept being like,

01:49sorry, father, sorry, father.

01:50I mean, just in that scene,

01:52I was like 10, 20, 30, maybe.

01:55I'm not sure, but a lot.

02:00Now that's a proper introduction.

02:01That is from Arrival.

02:04Now that's a proper introduction.

02:06That scene, I wasn't looking at anything.

02:08I had a piece of glass that I had to put my hand on,

02:11but Denis did such a great job

02:13sort of drawing the intimacy of the relationships

02:15that we were developing with Abbott and Costello

02:18and developing a sense of awe

02:19and kind of understanding

02:21of where they were at any given moment.

02:22So we were just all in this like

02:24really beautifully meditative space while making it.

02:28Oh, I bet she is thin.

02:30I bet she's prettier than I am too.

02:32Now I'm gonna hate her.

02:33Can't wait. That's Junebug.

02:35I bet she is thin.

02:36I bet she's prettier than I am too.

02:38Just went through kind of a hard time

02:40figuring out how I would fit life into work development.

02:45And it was putting so much time and energy

02:47into I think stuff I couldn't control really.

02:50And I realized it's not worth losing myself

02:53to try to pursue something.

02:54So when I booked Junebug,

02:56it really felt like I found myself in that role in a way.

02:59I was able to dive into something that felt very authentic

03:03and very familiar to me.

03:05And it kind of helped me find my way back to myself,

03:07not only as an artist, but just as a person

03:09and into like balance and community.

03:14Do you ever feel like your life has turned

03:15into something you never intended?

03:18I know this.

03:19And for some reason,

03:21do you ever feel like your life has turned

03:22into something you never intended?

03:25Why can't I think of this?

03:26This is making me crazy.

03:27I know this one.

03:28Hold on, why can't I think of it?

03:30But why did my brain stop working?

03:32I absolutely remember saying this line.

03:34And for some reason, I'm like, has the movie come out?

03:38Yes, that's it.

03:40Sorry, Tom.

03:41I could see it.

03:41I just couldn't say it.

03:42Do you ever feel like your life has turned

03:44into something you never intended?

03:46I love fashion, but I'm just a lot more casual of a person,

03:49I suppose, in my day-to-day life.

03:50But with him, I think the thing that I love so much

03:53about working with him is he infuses himself

03:55into each of the characters in a certain way.

03:57Watching him gave me sort of an understanding

03:59of how he saw the character,

04:01because he would almost play it through his direction.

04:03And it was really wonderful to participate in

04:06because it gave me such a different sensibility

04:08and posture and a different perspective on the character,

04:11getting to watch him

04:12and have the conversations with him about her.

04:14So that was what I loved a lot.

04:17And he also reads really beautifully.

04:19He would always be like, is that how you read?

04:21Because I'd be reading.

04:21He's like, that's how you're going to read?

04:24Sorry.

04:24And so, yes, he reads with a beautiful long neck, thankfully.

04:27Otherwise, I would have looked like this

04:28and nocturnally enclosed.

04:32Ah, yeah.

04:33You're nothing to me until you're everything.

04:36That's American Hustle.

04:37I say it to Christian Bale.

04:38I'm wearing a beautiful white coat and a hat.

04:42You're nothing to me until you're everything.

04:44I think I have one of the dresses I wore at the disco,

04:47but I never really wear anything I wear as a character again.

04:50I feel like once I play that character,

04:52they're, well, that's not entirely true.

04:54I have some shoes that I borrowed from a couple sets.

04:58I'm not stealing anything.

05:00I'm not that person, no.

05:01This sounds weird.

05:02I'm not getting out of this.

05:03I'm like, I borrowed them.

05:06You know, it was interesting because she was so kind of wounded

05:10and in a really vulnerable place

05:12and like required in the way that David works

05:14is very immediate and present.

05:16So it just is very immersive.

05:18So sometimes that can get intense, you know.

05:21So luckily I had my daughter at home.

05:22So, you know, at the end of the day,

05:24there's nothing like your kids to pull you out of work in that way.

05:29I think people buy art because it touches them.

05:33I think this is Big Eyes.

05:34Yeah.

05:35I think people buy art because it touches them.

05:38That's the shoes that I have.

05:40It's the sandals she wears and a little tie back.

05:43And I still have them and I have worn them all the way out.

05:46I haven't painted in a while.

05:47I can paint, not well,

05:49but I do love to push around the acrylics every once in a while.

05:52Let's be honest.

05:53It was like a paint by numbers.

05:55What I really liked is she held her brush in a very specific way.

05:59And in holding the brush in that way,

06:01I discovered I could actually draw and write and paint differently.

06:04And I guess I had always been,

06:05when do we ever think really about how we're holding a pencil?

06:08So when I changed the way I held things,

06:10it was a much more fluid line.

06:14It's unsettling to look at people with suspicion.

06:16I feel less close to God.

06:18That's doubt.

06:19It is unsettling to look at people with suspicion.

06:21I feel less close to God.

06:23She's wonderful.

06:24She's professional.

06:25She's a leader.

06:26She's a mentor.

06:27She's kind of set a bar for me,

06:29not only as an actress,

06:31but as all of those things,

06:33as a professional, as a mentor.

06:34You know, aside from the obvious ability that she has as an actor,

06:37she just has this ability with humans

06:39to just kind of infuse them with her warmth and her intelligence.

06:43It's just wonderful to be around.

06:44Oh, what is this one?

06:46Put them in the wash, they'll be grand.

06:47Okay.

06:48Just because of the wording, I'm thinking it's leap year.

06:50Okay, good.

06:51Yeah.

06:52Good, good, good.

06:52Okay.

06:53I was like, they'll be grand.

06:54That's gotta be Irish.

06:55Yeah.

06:56Put them in the wash, they'll be grand.

06:58I worked in Ireland on a couple of things,

07:00but most recently on Disenchanted.

07:01And I worked closely with a young woman named Eve.

07:04And she's like, don't, just don't.

07:06Please don't do it.

07:07It started because I was saying things like,

07:09about the crack, or the crack.

07:11And she's like, oh, just don't.

07:12Don't try to do it, Amy.

07:14Yeah.

07:14I mean, I love Dublin.

07:15I like all the other towns, but at the time in my life,

07:18it was just so magical to be there with my now husband.

07:21He came over and exploring Dublin.

07:23Okay.

07:24Oh, I'm signing up because I always watch the pageants on TV.

07:30And my boyfriend thinks I'll win.

07:32That is my very first film, which was Drop Dead Gorgeous.

07:35I promise, I don't watch my films over and over again.

07:38I'm not sure how I'm remembering all of this,

07:39because I literally watched them like once or twice years later.

07:44You know, I always watch the pageants on TV,

07:46and my boyfriend thinks I'll win.

07:49I mean, since I've always been into the arts,

07:51and I actually wanted to be a doctor, but I couldn't pass chemistry.

07:54Spent a little bit of time devastated,

07:56and then sort of like leaned into the performance aspect of my life,

07:59and started as a dancer,

08:00and kind of realized that the thing that I leaned into as being a dancer

08:04was like expression and the storytelling.

08:06And so I think that led naturally to acting.

08:09So I was actually working at a dinner theater in Minnesota

08:12when I was cast in Drop Dead Gorgeous.

08:14But I never thought that I would come out here

08:18and be lucky enough to have the career that I've had

08:21and work with the people I've worked with.

08:22That wasn't on my radar.

08:24I had no idea what I was doing, but I had a lot of fun.

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