Speaker 1: You're listening to Playback, a Variety I Heart Radio podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Variety Awards Editor Chris Tapley. We're kicking
Speaker 1: off three weeks of chats with OSCAR nominees this week,
Speaker 1: beginning with Amy Adams, who picked up her sixth nomination
Speaker 1: for playing Dick Cheney and for playing Lynn Cheney and Vice.
Speaker 1: I think if Amy Adams played Dick Cheney in this movie,
Speaker 1: that would be something to write home about. Holy crap. No, Uh,
Speaker 1: she plays Lynn Chaney in the films. She got her
Speaker 1: sixth nomination in fourteen years, which is incredible, particularly when
Speaker 1: you consider the fact that she kind of hit the
Speaker 1: ground running with OSCAR nominations, uh, landing one for June
Speaker 1: Bug in two thousand five. And uh, she's one of
Speaker 1: our most unrewarded actresses on that score, six nominations without
Speaker 1: a win so far. Maybe she'll finally pull it off
Speaker 1: for Vice. We talked about that film and all the
Speaker 1: films she's been nominated for in fact, which is quite
Speaker 1: a collection of films. And again, she's I think she's
Speaker 1: one of the sweetest people in the business. She was
Speaker 1: one of our first guests early on here at Playback
Speaker 1: and We're so pleased to have her back. So here
Speaker 1: is my chat with Amy Adams. It's it's always fun
Speaker 1: to get a movie out there. Um, thank you to
Speaker 1: get it seen. You know, there's always so much anticipation,
Speaker 1: and you know, especially when it's Adam and it's Christian
Speaker 1: and I've had all you guys on the show. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever had this many people from one
Speaker 1: movie on the show. I did Christian and Sam together.
Speaker 1: Now here we are with you all right, we are
Speaker 1: up and running. Okay, everyone, no big deal, We're just
Speaker 1: here with Amy Adams. UM, six time Oscar nominee. A
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for
Speaker 1: having your returning champ, so to speak. One of the
Speaker 1: few that we've had a second time on the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was tell you Right, Tell you Right. That's episode
Speaker 1: number two, by the way, this is like number one,
Speaker 1: oh four. Oh my goodness, congratulations. That's really cool. That
Speaker 1: was a fun one though. I love doing them and
Speaker 1: tell you right. I'll love going to tell you right. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. It's so beautiful. I wish I had more
Speaker 1: time there. I kind of just go and hang out.
Speaker 1: You can actually watch movies when you're there, if you're
Speaker 1: able to spend time there. But yes, the Oscar nominated
Speaker 1: Star of Vice. Congratulations on that. Thank you. What was
Speaker 1: your morning like when you got the news? Were you here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was here so in early morning. Then yeah, I
Speaker 1: got a phone call and that was fun. It's always fun. Um.
Speaker 1: I wasn't anticipating it one way or the other, but
Speaker 1: I was happy to hear about everyone's nominations. For me,
Speaker 1: that's always fun to be nominated with a bunch of
Speaker 1: a bunch of people from the films. It's a good feeling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that thing was like eight nominations. That's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite movies of the year. I love it. I think
Speaker 1: it's delicious. Uh, you know, it's what's interesting to me though,
Speaker 1: it's been a bit of a divisive movie. I mean,
Speaker 1: have you been surprised by some of the reviews to advice?
Speaker 1: Do you pay attention to them? I don't always pay
Speaker 1: attention to reviews. Um. Sometimes I like to read like
Speaker 1: one or two good and one or two bad, just
Speaker 1: so I understand sort of people's perspective. I'd like to
Speaker 1: be balanced. Um, it was interesting the level of of
Speaker 1: divisiveness like this sort of passion. People had both ways.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that's that was really um. That
Speaker 1: was really interesting, and in a way it kind of
Speaker 1: reflects the times that we're in that it's you know, um.
Speaker 1: But but there were people on both sides of the
Speaker 1: aisle who either liked or didn't like the film who responded,
Speaker 1: I love the film and I love um Adam McKay's
Speaker 1: unique storytelling devices. And so for me, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: in the I mean, of course I'm in it, but
Speaker 1: I'm in the camp of really loving it. It's good
Speaker 1: to have strong reactions as opposed to it was okay,
Speaker 1: you want to get for dinner, you know, just forget
Speaker 1: about it. Within being in different in difference is kind
Speaker 1: of one of my least favorite things in general in life.
Speaker 1: Although I really don't like not being liked, do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? That like stresses me out. Would
Speaker 1: be strange. Otherwise, I think, is there anyone who just
Speaker 1: loves not being liked? Like? Probably? Actually, particularly in my field,
Speaker 1: I think, okay, the people who like to rouse, I
Speaker 1: got it, well, you know, I like that there's a conversation,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And I will say there's
Speaker 1: a conversation around vice. So, um, I think, especially when
Speaker 1: we're dealing with political elements, conversation is important. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: when you got the script, did it read how it
Speaker 1: was finally presented? Did it read on the page as
Speaker 1: irreverent as it is the filmmaking is because I'm always
Speaker 1: curious about that translation translation, you know, I guess may
Speaker 1: because I was looking at it from a character point
Speaker 1: of view and the way that the characters were developed.
Speaker 1: I mean, I knew, I know, Adam is um very
Speaker 1: political and he has very strong points of view, so
Speaker 1: I knew he was going to put that in. But
Speaker 1: you know, there's always a slight difference between the script
Speaker 1: and the final product, and so I knew that, you know,
Speaker 1: diving into it with Adam, he was going to have
Speaker 1: a take on it. But the script itself was very
Speaker 1: solid and felt very um, it just felt very matter
Speaker 1: of fact. You know, his storytelling techniques aren't so you
Speaker 1: always knew that there was going to be that. But
Speaker 1: for instance, are you reading half with you the script?
Speaker 1: There's a credit role, Yeah, exactly, that's in there. Um,
Speaker 1: the Shakespearean scene is in there. There's even more that
Speaker 1: didn't make it in, like the musical number, which I
Speaker 1: wasn't involved in, so I tell no, no, I mean,
Speaker 1: trust me. I was really you know, anyone who knows
Speaker 1: me is like I would have just shown up just
Speaker 1: to be a dancer, you know, I'd like to be
Speaker 1: an easter egg in the musical number. But I saw
Speaker 1: the musical number and it's amazing. I believe. He said
Speaker 1: he's going to try to put it on the DVD.
Speaker 1: I hope it makes it out. We hope he does.
Speaker 1: I hope he does that. And then he sort of
Speaker 1: teased that he might do like a twenty minute a
Speaker 1: short phone, a short about the early stuff, because when
Speaker 1: you meet my character in the script, it's already like
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, and so it was. It was definitely I
Speaker 1: approached that scene with a certain sort of energy of
Speaker 1: already knowing who Lynn is. So it's a really fun
Speaker 1: introduction in that way because it wasn't the initial introduction
Speaker 1: to the character. It's funny. Yeah, let's talk about that
Speaker 1: getting to know Lynn researching was this uh significant element
Speaker 1: of research compared to other roles you've done, or you know,
Speaker 1: just tell me about that. I mean to some yes,
Speaker 1: actually I didn't know a lot about her. And um,
Speaker 1: I knew people's opinions, so in one way I had
Speaker 1: to really, um, I just had to kind of let
Speaker 1: go of my own opinion or my own politics and
Speaker 1: go back because I had started watching video on her,
Speaker 1: because I of course I'm like, oh, I'm playing somebody.
Speaker 1: What do they look like, what do they sound like?
Speaker 1: How do they act? What? You know? So I went
Speaker 1: straight to sort of more video research. And then I
Speaker 1: realized I was not I was coming out her from
Speaker 1: a place that wasn't going to be productive in creating
Speaker 1: a character that felt real and grounded and balanced. And
Speaker 1: so I stopped watching the videos for a period of
Speaker 1: time and went back and did my reading and like
Speaker 1: did the did the real research and trying to figure
Speaker 1: out who she was as opposed to who she is
Speaker 1: now or people's opinions or or my own opinions. The
Speaker 1: hardest part of that, as far as instilling it and
Speaker 1: making it a character, and you always talk about playing
Speaker 1: real life people, like staying away from anything that's like
Speaker 1: an impersonation or anything. Just finding an actual character in there.
Speaker 1: What was the hardest kind of through line to find there?
Speaker 1: I guess, I mean, I think the biggest challenge for me,
Speaker 1: was just creating a character that aged, for you know,
Speaker 1: fifty years and still felt like the same person, but
Speaker 1: went through an evolution, and creating that in a way
Speaker 1: that felt subtle and real as opposed to UM, what
Speaker 1: I'm doing it with Christians, So it makes it a
Speaker 1: lot easier, UM, but in with with Lynn and so
Speaker 1: it's so strange too because everything even that I read
Speaker 1: about her, saw about her that wasn't written by her,
Speaker 1: was based on her past a certain age. So going
Speaker 1: back into research, I really had to sort of, I guess,
Speaker 1: triangulate between what people had told Adam. Adam sent me
Speaker 1: these amazing this amazing letter somebody had written, and then
Speaker 1: there was an article someone had written about the two
Speaker 1: of them, and then UM sources, you know, we had sources,
Speaker 1: and then kind of watching how people reacted to her
Speaker 1: and kind of trying to understand how she got that
Speaker 1: way and drawing conclusions about kind of what what about
Speaker 1: her past, what about her experience? UM created that kind
Speaker 1: of ambition and that kind of drive and that kind
Speaker 1: of focus, so that it was coming from a place
Speaker 1: that didn't feel purely Shakespearean, you know, and felt a
Speaker 1: little felt more grounded, but It's always important to me.
Speaker 1: Is I like my characters to feel like you could
Speaker 1: meet them on the street. What do you think that
Speaker 1: Drive was about? I mean, that's what I told Adam.
Speaker 1: It's what I've told everyone about this movie. What I
Speaker 1: come away from this movie thinking is why, you know
Speaker 1: all of that push for power? Uh, you know, specifically
Speaker 1: regarding Dick Cheney, he doesn't need the money, He's not
Speaker 1: necessarily getting the credit because you know VP and everything.
Speaker 1: It's just like this push for power and why? And
Speaker 1: you got any ideas? I mean, I have ideas. I
Speaker 1: have no conclusive, conclusory evidence, you know, But in looking
Speaker 1: at Lynn in particular, I mean, I think you get
Speaker 1: to a point in life where you can lose perspective
Speaker 1: if you don't um. It's easy to lose perspective in
Speaker 1: the pursuit of power or or wealth, I think. And
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's what happened to Lynne, but
Speaker 1: I do know in the beginning she um she came
Speaker 1: from a real rough upbringing, and she doesn't talk about
Speaker 1: it in the way that's sort of our society talks about.
Speaker 1: You know, everyone's so open and just like shares about
Speaker 1: their pain and their trauma. She's honest about it in
Speaker 1: her book, but she almost tells it with sort of
Speaker 1: this romanticized like everything feels like it's shot and soft
Speaker 1: focused in the way that she tells her story about
Speaker 1: you know, her the tragedies and her family's history and
Speaker 1: her dad's you know, problems with gambling or you know,
Speaker 1: having to move out of her house into an apartment
Speaker 1: because they lost their house, and going to the state
Speaker 1: championships for baton twirling and seeing the girls of privilege
Speaker 1: and understanding that she was one of the only ones
Speaker 1: there in a handmade costume, you know, little things that
Speaker 1: you start to go I kind of see, I'm seeing
Speaker 1: where you know, she created a realm, a real drive,
Speaker 1: and understanding that it was going to be up to
Speaker 1: her to get herself out of her situation, and she
Speaker 1: wanted to. Um. I think she learned very early that
Speaker 1: her hard work could be rewarded, and so I think
Speaker 1: she kind of just had this amazing focus and work
Speaker 1: ethic and it didn't matter if it was baton twirling
Speaker 1: or you know, um getting the husband or whatever it
Speaker 1: was when she whipping him into shape, but it was
Speaker 1: it was as soon as I felt this reading it,
Speaker 1: and there was this I actually really liked this because
Speaker 1: I know ambition still feels like such a dirty word,
Speaker 1: especially for women to be like, I'm ambitious. It just
Speaker 1: doesn't I know. Rhese Witherspoon talked about this and speech
Speaker 1: and it's it's worth looking up. And so I felt
Speaker 1: that Lynn didn't feel apologetic about being ambitious. She saw
Speaker 1: it as I decided I wanted to be the best girl,
Speaker 1: and I used to fantasize about the dress sidewear and gosh, darnett,
Speaker 1: I did it and I wore the dress, you know,
Speaker 1: and she's proud of herself, and that's something that isn't
Speaker 1: instilled often about um ambition in women, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's not always seen the same way. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: the whole thing makes for a fascinating psychological study, obviously.
Speaker 1: I know, I think I love psychology, which is always
Speaker 1: trying to break down my characters and this sort of
Speaker 1: like amateur psychologist, right, it's part of what you guys do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the most fun part of my work for me,
Speaker 1: is is going on in there. Yeah. Yeah. I also
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about your just your your fellow nominees
Speaker 1: in the Supporting Actors category that year. It's a fascinating lineup.
Speaker 1: I mean Regina King, you know, I was hopeful she
Speaker 1: would make the cut and she did for Could Talk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, fantastic performance. The ladies from the favorite Rachel
Speaker 1: Weiss and Emma Stone, and I was so thrilled to
Speaker 1: see Marina did a very good in for Roma, which
Speaker 1: was such an interesting inclusion as well. What have you
Speaker 1: had a chance to see movies this year? Have you
Speaker 1: had to just see their movies this year? I'm just
Speaker 1: curious what you think. I've seen some movies. Um, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen everybody's movies. I feel bad about that. UM,
Speaker 1: I definitely will see I'm in the middle of all
Speaker 1: of my h viewing at this point. Um, and I'm
Speaker 1: excited there. I know them all. You guys are running
Speaker 1: into each other all of the Yeah, but also as people,
Speaker 1: they're awesome and their previous work. I'm I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 1: Um Regina, I have like a major girl crush on
Speaker 1: because she's just got the night the best energy and
Speaker 1: UM yeah, I'm It's a It's a fun category to
Speaker 1: be a part of. I always have a good time
Speaker 1: with with the women. It's it's interesting the narrative always
Speaker 1: sets women up in such I don't know if it
Speaker 1: does with men. Does it do this with men? Where
Speaker 1: like men are really like, you know, like battling out.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they do that like women, it
Speaker 1: feels like it's like like that we're like in deep competition.
Speaker 1: Like I have like voodoo dolls of these girls or something,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, I'd be happy for any of them.
Speaker 1: I think maybe some of that plays a part in
Speaker 1: every category. Yeah, but you know, I guess our society
Speaker 1: does like to put women against each other. So well,
Speaker 1: it's not it's just not true and not against anybody. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not true. I'm not against anybody an actor in
Speaker 1: my category. There's some human beings that date back to
Speaker 1: junior high. I still have ay those No, can you
Speaker 1: imagine Billy Madison? Now that's so funny. I'm now, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about all the ladies. They're awesome, like and
Speaker 1: I also wanted to talk about your just your previous nominations.
Speaker 1: If you, if you'd be willing to kind of look
Speaker 1: back with me. You're very prolific actress to begin with,
Speaker 1: but to be prolific with you know, award nominated, award
Speaker 1: winning work is stunning. I mean years, it's insane. I mean,
Speaker 1: since you pretty much leapt onto the scene. Um well,
Speaker 1: and so to speak, I mean, obviously you were working
Speaker 1: hard before you broke out in June Bug. But let's
Speaker 1: start with June Bug, your first nomination. You know what
Speaker 1: comes to mind? Want to talk about June Bug. That
Speaker 1: was unexpected and um thrilling, it's it's It's why I
Speaker 1: always approached awards season with a great at like I
Speaker 1: tried to have a great attitude and to look at
Speaker 1: the gifts of it, because I would not be I
Speaker 1: am today if um people hadn't gone behind me for
Speaker 1: June Bug, and I hadn't sort of gone through that
Speaker 1: awards season and introduced people to the work. So it
Speaker 1: can really Um, I'm so grateful that it brought attention
Speaker 1: to a really small film. It didn't have a big budget,
Speaker 1: didn't have a big publicity budget, and so it was
Speaker 1: it was great. Um, it's great to be a part
Speaker 1: of that. It was a real overwhelming experience and sort
Speaker 1: of like yeah, I bet, I mean, you're right in
Speaker 1: the business there. And then I feel like I always
Speaker 1: looked like this tell your pardon and singing on the stage,
Speaker 1: and it was the year that I will never forget that.
Speaker 1: It was the year for heart out here for a
Speaker 1: pimp and watching like that on stage, I was like,
Speaker 1: this is so awesome. You know it's hard at he
Speaker 1: I got to interduce three six Mafia that year. My gosh,
Speaker 1: it's any way, So it was that was one of
Speaker 1: my favorite interviews ever. Oh yeah, I exactly because I
Speaker 1: wanted to know what was the nominees launching like for
Speaker 1: those guys. I was like, tell me about that. And
Speaker 1: they're like, man, you're used to being in the studio
Speaker 1: smelling like some stuff you probably shouldn't be smelling like.
Speaker 1: And then they pull a switcher and you're you're sitting
Speaker 1: there with Reach with a spoon and she's sexy man
Speaker 1: and Steven Spielber. It's the greatest interview I have ever done.
Speaker 1: I remember, well, that's kind I mean, that's honestly what
Speaker 1: I felt like. Me my poor husband, he um we
Speaker 1: go back to that season because he made uh, I'm
Speaker 1: so so sorry, Darren. He went to an Apple Martini
Speaker 1: phase and so he was like, oh, three drinks. It SAgs.
Speaker 1: The next thing you know, he's got his arms around
Speaker 1: David streuth Are and I'm like, Darren, you don't actually
Speaker 1: know him, you know that right, Like he might be
Speaker 1: uh being a little too familiar with everybody because he
Speaker 1: was so excited. We were both so excited to meet everybody.
Speaker 1: But I was like doing on, you know, I was
Speaker 1: trying to don't are you kidding? It's the best show ever.
Speaker 1: I was like, I think he likes you a lot.
Speaker 1: You should encourage this, Like I was, I'm I'm bad
Speaker 1: like that if someone's like going down the road, as
Speaker 1: long as it's not harmful and is a great show. Um.
Speaker 1: But I was reminding him that um at SAG's this
Speaker 1: past SAG Awards, I was like, do you remember your
Speaker 1: Apple Martini place? I mean there was a time he
Speaker 1: was close talking Steven Spielberg about having knowing every word too.
Speaker 1: I ting to Indiana Jones and the Temple him too,
Speaker 1: because he has a record of it, and so he's like, dude,
Speaker 1: bro man. I was like, oh my gosh, you just
Speaker 1: dude Broman, Steven spob I love you so much. You're
Speaker 1: so insane. Oh but That's why I love my husband
Speaker 1: is he just makes me laugh because he gets so excited. Sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: she's literally crying. Guys, Stephen looks at me because you're driving, right,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, Dare's gonna kill me. He's so
Speaker 1: funny though, I'm not sorry. I don't. You don't have to.
Speaker 1: I love it because I will say this about my husband.
Speaker 1: He really is a true lover of film and and
Speaker 1: one of the nicest, most social people. Like I'm definitely
Speaker 1: the person that goes to a party and I'm like,
Speaker 1: find me a couch chair, a corner, whatever, and he's like,
Speaker 1: you're good. He gets me settled, and then I don't
Speaker 1: see him for like an hour. Good, get you anything,
Speaker 1: You're good. And then he just he's just very friendly friendly.
Speaker 1: Is that you think. We just watched him with my daughter.
Speaker 1: We covered her eyes during certain parts. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: it's sacrilege. I just think it's the best one. No,
Speaker 1: that's okay. I'm I'm a I'm a fan of the
Speaker 1: last weece sad. Yeah, it's awesome too. I like the
Speaker 1: first one too. I like them all. We just again,
Speaker 1: we did that with my daughter, um couple weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Which one does she like? She liked the like that one. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm I can't stop thinking of Darren Cooks talking everybody, Well,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a fun segue. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: doubt three years later. Yeah, you know Powerhouse cast Meryl Streep,
Speaker 1: Violet Davis like, great, Phil Hoffman, what what do you
Speaker 1: recall of that movie and and that season. I'm that
Speaker 1: was an amazing experience for me working on that film
Speaker 1: to get to dive into a character study and we
Speaker 1: were in rehearsals to get to do that. At that
Speaker 1: point in my career with Philip and Meryll was I
Speaker 1: keep saying a gift, but it is a gift. I
Speaker 1: mean I was able to watch these two masters um
Speaker 1: working their craft and it it taught me so much.
Speaker 1: And it was strange because that year at the Oscars,
Speaker 1: I went through like a whole like the first Oscars,
Speaker 1: which is so overwhelming, and then I'm like, oh my
Speaker 1: am I doing back here? Like I don't belong here?
Speaker 1: This is too much Almost I got a little overwhelmed
Speaker 1: during that season. I think was it different than even
Speaker 1: than it is now. This is just ten years ago,
Speaker 1: but it's the evolution of the season and how much
Speaker 1: work you guys end up having to dude, to promote.
Speaker 1: It's different for each film and sort of the way
Speaker 1: that it gets rolled out, you know. Um that one,
Speaker 1: it was so much of having done Enchanted and having
Speaker 1: that come out and then really transitioning into I'm doubt
Speaker 1: from Enchanted. It's just yeah. So it was I was
Speaker 1: like that moment where I decide how honest to be.
Speaker 1: It was like I really wanted to be taken seriously,
Speaker 1: but at the same time not. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people will be like, like I would make a
Speaker 1: joke because I, as Philip and Meryl would be asked
Speaker 1: about sort of diving into these deep characters, and then
Speaker 1: they'd get to me and say, so, what was harder
Speaker 1: to wear a princess dress or a habit? And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, no, is this what people think about me?
Speaker 1: They think that it's the same thing, and I'm just
Speaker 1: changed costumes. So that was kind of I kind of
Speaker 1: got in my head a little bit. Was there already
Speaker 1: a natural kind of self consciousness about that or did
Speaker 1: I just have a natural self consciousness anyway? I think,
Speaker 1: But I think I I I didn't expect to be
Speaker 1: taken as seriously as as a fulipan, I mean, Filip
Speaker 1: and Meryl in that are just overwhelmed, overwhelmingly brilliant and
Speaker 1: their their work is amazing. Um. I think it's just
Speaker 1: new to it all, you know. So you're just trying
Speaker 1: to find your way. I think that's what it is.
Speaker 1: How about the Fighter, Uh the first time and I
Speaker 1: found my way now now yeah, um that was fun. Um.
Speaker 1: That was a harder word season because I went through
Speaker 1: I just have my daughter and I was shooting them
Speaker 1: muppets at the same time. So also very different from
Speaker 1: yeah and I So I remember that one just primarily
Speaker 1: because I was burning me. I was like I had
Speaker 1: three candle, Like there wasn't just burning the candle from
Speaker 1: both ends. It was just like it was like burning
Speaker 1: all the candles, burning all the candles, which you know
Speaker 1: a lot of people are doing. But it was a
Speaker 1: fun one. I remember I sing a lot, and I
Speaker 1: talked about this, and I remember I sang to David o'
Speaker 1: russell at the Oscars really yeah in the Delbe Theater,
Speaker 1: in the Delbe Theater. Yeah, what were you singing? Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just like curious. I always I sang to him
Speaker 1: on sets. I sing a lot. It's this is what's
Speaker 1: coming out. I've never told anybody that, So you're getting
Speaker 1: me to be honest, does that sound really cheesy? No,
Speaker 1: that you sing a lot? Or no, that I sang
Speaker 1: to him? Well, I mean, I don't know that. It
Speaker 1: depends on what was going on there. Why did he
Speaker 1: need to be sung to for some reason? Was he like,
Speaker 1: please sing to me, I'm nervous. No? Probably, I think
Speaker 1: case Row is just sort of my anthem for life.
Speaker 1: So maybe the old dinner theater roots are You're coming
Speaker 1: out or something. Then The master I love that movie, Gosh, Masterpiece,
Speaker 1: um Phil Hoffman. Again, that might have been a bit
Speaker 1: of a surprise because I feel I don't I don't recall.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like there was some
Speaker 1: question as to whether that movie was catching with the
Speaker 1: Academy or not. And then three of you are nominated,
Speaker 1: and it was like, oh, that's amazing. Honestly, some of
Speaker 1: my favorite acting work I've seen from any actors are
Speaker 1: the scenes that fill and walking to together, the scene
Speaker 1: where he's um auditing him. I guess it's called something
Speaker 1: to that that and he's making him go back and
Speaker 1: not blink. It's really I think it's up there with
Speaker 1: some of the best work I've seen any actors do. UM.
Speaker 1: I think that film affected me in a way that
Speaker 1: was unexpected to me. It's the only time that I've
Speaker 1: played a character where I really really like was sad
Speaker 1: about what the character was doing on set. Interesting. How
Speaker 1: do you push that away so you can just play
Speaker 1: the part? I don't know it was. It was the
Speaker 1: final scene of the movie when I'm I'm kind of
Speaker 1: off to the side and then I leave the room.
Speaker 1: But the way that they shot that scene, um, they
Speaker 1: kept the cameras rolling and so to prevent when they're
Speaker 1: in on the close ups, to prevent hearing my click click,
Speaker 1: I had to duck to the side. So I'm like
Speaker 1: behind a sound cart and I'm just listening to these
Speaker 1: two actors talk to each other. And I think that's
Speaker 1: part of what it was. When he was saying, you'll
Speaker 1: be my enemy and then he sang slow Boat to China,
Speaker 1: and I still can't um, I still can't talk about
Speaker 1: it without affecting me. And Paul's so genius in that way,
Speaker 1: just keeping the camera and Philip while he sang that
Speaker 1: song in the way that he did. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It just really affected me while it was being filmed
Speaker 1: American hustle quite different as well. How about that the
Speaker 1: kind of variation of material has that always been important
Speaker 1: to you? Yeah? Yeah, I think it's something I um,
Speaker 1: whether it's intentional or not. I'm always attracted to things
Speaker 1: I haven't done. Um or if something feels like a
Speaker 1: new challenge, that's exciting to me. And that season was
Speaker 1: I have been two thousand. That was the next year.
Speaker 1: That was right after the Master, so you were right
Speaker 1: back into it all over again. I mean when you
Speaker 1: when you've been through this season that many times, does
Speaker 1: it ever feel does it start to feel like the
Speaker 1: same thing or does it feel different each time? It
Speaker 1: would because of the movie, but and you're kind of
Speaker 1: going through it with different people in the way, Uh,
Speaker 1: everyone's involvement is different. Um, it does build different every time.
Speaker 1: I I I do think I try to roll with it.
Speaker 1: I really that tends to be, you know, just kind
Speaker 1: of roll with you know, show up, you know, and
Speaker 1: to show up here you are six time nomine I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's amazing. I mean, such a modest person, but
Speaker 1: it's it's it's that's huge. And I think if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm wrong. You and another nominee this year,
Speaker 1: Glenn Close, are the two most nominated performers yet to
Speaker 1: hear their name called on Oscar Night. How crazy is that?
Speaker 1: It's awesome? I mean it is. I'm like, who gets
Speaker 1: to do this? I'm I you can't. I can't really
Speaker 1: put words into it. My husband and I had a
Speaker 1: toast the other night and he said, to your six
Speaker 1: Oscar nomination and I was just like, that doesn't even
Speaker 1: make any sense to me. I'm sure there are trolls
Speaker 1: out there, like it doesn't make sense to us either.
Speaker 1: Nailed it. I love it. I love that. I'm like,
Speaker 1: sunglasses just fell across our eyes everyone, and the words
Speaker 1: deal with it just oh my gosh, I need those
Speaker 1: sunglasses made. That's like, so my personality. I deal with it. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's not really. It's more like I'm being silly. That's
Speaker 1: not really my personality. Um, but it makes me laugh.
Speaker 1: It's the joke of it is my person Um. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm lucky, and there's a lot of actors out there
Speaker 1: who are deserving of attention for their performances. So I
Speaker 1: just feel like I'm I'm lucky. Well vice, Uh, everyone
Speaker 1: should see this movie. It's it's got to be still
Speaker 1: in theaters, right. It's late January, so it's still in theater.
Speaker 1: Go see it in theaters. Absolutely, to me, it's one
Speaker 1: of the best movies of the year. I'm gonna close
Speaker 1: by asking you a question I asked Adam, which is
Speaker 1: something we're gonna try to start asking our guests at
Speaker 1: the end of the show. Hopefully haven't answer. Maybe not,
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see what is the movie that
Speaker 1: made you fall in love with movies? And take your
Speaker 1: time if you need to think about it, I can edit. No, Well,
Speaker 1: there's different. I guess it's just because there's different movies
Speaker 1: that made me fall in love with movies at different times.
Speaker 1: When I was younger, it was Greece. It was my
Speaker 1: favorite movie and I watched it over and over. But
Speaker 1: if I'm thinking um in a more complex way, in
Speaker 1: high school, we watched Vertigo from Alfred Hitchcock, and it's
Speaker 1: the first time I understood um the artistry and intellect
Speaker 1: behind filmmaking and the use of different devices, the flashbacks
Speaker 1: or different imagery um to help tell the story. And
Speaker 1: that became really really fascinating to me. So if I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of a more sort of mature approach. I'm going
Speaker 1: to go with Vertigo just because that's the first one
Speaker 1: inside of my humanities class um that we broke down,
Speaker 1: and it was the first time i'd ever sort of
Speaker 1: broke down a movie in an artistic and intellectual way
Speaker 1: to look at the filmmakers in the business at all,
Speaker 1: or was there something else? Well, I was already in
Speaker 1: the arts, just from being a dancer, so I was
Speaker 1: always interested in the performing arts, but I didn't really
Speaker 1: think it was a possibility for me to be in movies.
Speaker 1: It just seemed like kind of too big an idea.
Speaker 1: I couldn't wrap my head around it. And I think
Speaker 1: it wasn't until I actually got cast in a movie
Speaker 1: that I thought, oh, this is this is kind of
Speaker 1: what I'm doing anyway, just in a different way. So
Speaker 1: that opened um opened up my mind to the possibility
Speaker 1: that I could act in film. And so I've sort
Speaker 1: of been teaching and training myself since then. What else
Speaker 1: what you got coming up? I know you're working with Joe, right.
Speaker 1: I did just work with Joe right. Oh, he's the best.
Speaker 1: He's so good. He's so good, he was so great
Speaker 1: to work with. He was well, I mean he he
Speaker 1: was so great. That's all I can say. Just blew
Speaker 1: me away. He's so great. I mean, yeah, he was.
Speaker 1: I always love it when actors show up. There's scenes
Speaker 1: where I literally a woman of the window, have like
Speaker 1: a three page monologue and Joe Wright shot it over
Speaker 1: the course of like eight days maybe, and so other
Speaker 1: actors had to sit there and stand for me. And
Speaker 1: he was always there. And I always appreciate that and
Speaker 1: always showing up. I appreciate that about about fellow actors
Speaker 1: when they when they show up for each other. What
Speaker 1: else you got other than that? Nothing, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: Vacation hopefully, Um, we'll see. Yeah, I'm really I love
Speaker 1: being at home. I think I travel so much. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of a homebody and so I like having my
Speaker 1: daughter have some consistency. So well, we'll take a little vacation.
Speaker 1: But nothing too nothing too long, especially after she just
Speaker 1: is out of school for like a week. With the telling,
Speaker 1: I was like nope, yeah, yeah, Well congratulations again, Thank
Speaker 1: you deserved and everyone should see it's called advice. Amy Adams,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on the show again. Thank you. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it.