I’ve added scans from the extremely rare and hard to find issue of V-Life Magazine which featured Amy (and one of my favorite photoshoots of her).  Also added are larger non-watermarked versions of some photos in one of our photoshoot albums.  We ask that you kindly refrain from posting the V-Life scans at your blogs and forums as they were obtained exclusively for Enchanting Amy.  If you insist on posting them elsewhere, please be polite and credit us as the source.

• Press > Scans From 2005 > V-Life – December
• Photoshoots > Session #015

Amy Adams and Chris Messina are pretty cute individually, but put together, they’re practically magnetic. Even though they play the very flawed, very human Julie and Eric Powell in Julie & Julia, in person they’re really just movie-star attractive and charming.

Still, their depiction of a modern marriage in Julie & Julia feels honest and real, making them perfect counterparts to the other half of the story, about the fairytale marriage between Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci). Read below as they talk about creating real people out of their characters, dealing with the massive amount of food they had to eat on camera, and Chris Messina’s early brush with fame– and Meryl Streep.

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Ok, so it’s not exactly new since it was taken in 2007 but it is new to the site and one of the photos I have never seen before.  Enjoy!

• Photoshoots > Session #057

Just a small update before I sign off for the night.  I’ve added more photos of Amy arriving for her appearance on David Letterman from July 29th and photos of her leaving the studio after her Good Morning America appearance from July 30th.

• Out & About > 2009 > Arriving for David Letterman Appearance
• Out & About > 2009 > Good Morning America Appearance

With many (many!) thanks to Sophie, we now have screencaptures of Amy in a short film she did called Pennies.  The film was made in 2002 but didn’t get released until 2006 where it was shown on cable a few times.  The screencaptures are not the best quality but footage from this is rare so it’s nice to see it in any form.  Thank you once again Sophie for your wonderful donation to Enchanting.

• Film > [2006] Pennies (short film) > Screencaptures

I’ve added another small batch of scans to the gallery.  The People scans were donated by Cam and the rest donated by Britt.  Thank you so much ladies!

• Press > Scans From 2007 > TV Guide – November 5th
• Press > Scans From 2007 > People – December 3rd
• Press > Scans From 2008 > Joy – September
• Press > Scans From 2009 > Elle – March

I’m a bit of a homebody at heart, and I like the idea of cooking dinners and keeping house. Well, not cleaning house, because I’m really bad at that, but keeping house

In “Julie & Julia,” Amy Adams plays a woman who is facing the prospect of turning 30 and not feeling too good about herself.

Based on a true story, Adams’ Julie Powell is a New York City government employee and failed novelist. Giving herself a goal, the real-life Powell decided to chop and cook her way through all 500-plus recipes in Julia Child’s seminal 1961 cookbook, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” in one year while blogging about her experiences.

The film, which opens Friday, tells both stories: Powell’s to complete her task and ultimately to be published; and Child’s to become a chef in France when such things were unthinkable for a woman.

The year before her 30th birthday, Adams wasn’t feeling very positive about her own career, either. At the time, nearly six years had gone by since the actress had moved to Los Angeles from Minneapolis, where she had been working in dinner theater.

She had gotten some roles — most notably in Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me If You Can” (2002) as a nurse whom Leonardo DiCaprio’s character falls for — but her career had never caught fire. In fact, she didn’t get another part for a year after “Catch Me.”

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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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One more movie added to get closer to our finishing completing the gallery here at Enchanting. Today I have added screencaps from Amy’s 2002 movie Serving Sara

• Film > [2002] Serving Sara > DVD Screencaptures
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Before all the Julie & Julia related appearances this week, I had added screencaptures from one of Amy’s earlier films, The Last Run, to the gallery.  Today, I added screencaptures of Amy’s small role in the independent movie The Slaughter Rule.  Just a few more movies and our screencapture archive will be complete!  We are still looking for any quality footage of Amy in Pennies – a short film she did in 2006.  If you can help us out, please contact us.

• Film > [2004] The Last Run > DVD Screencaptures
• Film > [2002] The Slaughter Rule > DVD Screencaptures
• Film > [2002] The Slaughter Rule > DVD Screencaptures – Deleted Scenes