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.