I’m not necessarily looking to play the bad girl specifically. If there’s a great role that’s written and she happens to be a little nasty…

Since her breakthrough role as Princess Giselle in Disney’s Enchanted, Amy Adams has gotten notice playing nice women – from the troubled nun in Doubt to Amelia Earhart in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and a poor chorine in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.

As Julie Powell, the frustrated housewife who finds personal satisfaction – and an admiring public – when she blogs about cooking like Julia Child in Julie & Julia, Adams adds another notch to her “nice girl” belt.

Does she ever long to return to the evil vixenhood she embraced in Cruel Intentions 2?

“Well, right now these are the roles that are coming to me and I’m not necessarily looking to play the bad girl specifically. If there’s a great role that’s written and she happens to be a little nasty,” Adams said nodding.

“But I don’t want to do it just for the sake of doing it. For me, it’s just about creating human beings the way that I see them, as opposed to creating a caricature of a human being.”

At least in Julie & Julia Adams was free of the baggage usually associated with portraying a real-life character.

Unlike Meryl Streep’s Child, a performance that will be measured against often vivid memories of the eccentric and beloved TV chef and author, Powell remains virtually unknown even though her blog became a best-selling book and now a movie.

“I still have not met Julie Powell,” Adams said. “For me, creating a character that was living in the world of our film was really important. My interpretation was based on ‘meeting’ (Julie) through her book and her blogs and through Nora (Ephron, the writer-director) who spent an extensive amount of time with her.”

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