Amy fans are lucky today! Collider posted an audio interview they did with Amy while she was filming The Muppets. A links to the audio file can be found at the source or you can read the interview below.

I watched The Muppet Movie obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.

Did you enjoy sitting in that car for multiple takes?

Amy Adams: There have been more comfortable situations, but everybody is really nice. So that is good.

What can tell you us about your character? We know about Jason Segel and Walter’s connection. How do you fit into that story?

Adams: I am Mary, who is Gary’s somewhat neglected girlfriend due to his close relationship with Walter. So I am kind of along for the ride desperately trying to get him to be more romantic. Well, in a Disney way. You know?[laughs]

What does it mean for you to be a part of something that has this much linage?

Adams: It is awesome. I have been lucky to be a part of a lot of family films that have a great linage with Enchanted, Night at the Museum, and now to be a part of this. This is something I grew up with and was in love with. When I heard they were doing a new one I was really excited. Jason sent me a DVD where he and Kermit were inviting me to be part of The Muppets. It was really cool. Once Kermit asks you to do something it is really hard to look at him and say, “No.” So I was hooked.

Has it been an adjustment for you as an actor working with The Muppets? Do act with them as Muppets or with the puppeteers? How does that all work?

Adams: You know, it wasn’t. It’s amazing when you are doing a scene and you just so accept them as the other actor. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up with The Muppets. I don’t know. It’s actually great because a lot of the times when you are doing films that involve special effects you are acting with nothing. So in reality they are actually very giving scene partners for being inanimate objects.

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Movieweb just posted an amazing article about the day they got to visit the set of The Muppets. Sadly, no photos of Amy were featured but there is a section where they talk to Amy. I’ve posted the first half of the article (the part which has the interview with Amy). The rest can be found at the source.

“I have to say that I can’t win in that answer because I am working with Miss Piggy. So if I say, Meryl Streep…I have to see Miss Piggy tomorrow and it will be like, so I heard…so I’m just going to plead the fifth. I know Meryl Streep will be ok, but I don’t want to cross Miss Piggy.”

Scheduled for release on November 23rd is The Muppets, a brand new movie featuring these classic characters, written by Jason Segel and Nick Stoller, the writer and director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, respectively. The music for the movie was written by Flight of the Conchords star Bret McKenzie. And James Bobin, who co-created that popular HBO series, also directs the film.

The movie stars Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones, and of course … Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Scooter, Rowlf, Swedish Chief, Beaker, Crazy Harry, Sam the Eagle, Animal, and Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem. The Muppets, which is the beloved characters first theatrical release since ’1999s , promises to return Kermit the Frog and the entire gang to the forefront of popular culture once again … exactly where they belong.

Earlier this year we had the rare opportunity to be invited to the Los Angeles set of The Muppets to speak to the cast and crew about the new film. While on set, we had a chance to talk with Academy Award nominated actress Amy Adams, actor/writer Jason Segel, co-writer Nick Stoller, and director James Bobin. Unfortunately, we did not have a chance to interview any of the actual Muppets, but we did get to see them shooting a scene for the movie.

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Time posted a fantastic article about Amy’s upcoming movie The Muppets. The primary focus of the article is on Jason Segel and the Muppets themselves but I thought it was an excellent read and something us Amy fans should all check out.

“You kind of sign on to the man-child thing when you work with Jason.”

I’m not sure whether the vibe is coming from the Muppets or from Jason Segel, but everyone is really happy on this set. Actually, I’m not sure there’s much of a difference between the Muppets and Segel, the 31-year-old star and co-writer of the new Muppets movie (in theaters Nov. 23). Between takes, Segel out-Muppets the actual Muppets, his grin still Kermit-wide long after the real Kermit the Frog closes his mouth and collapses around puppeteer Steve Whitmire’s hand. In the right opera balcony above the stage — which looks a lot like the original Muppet Show set — crusty Muppet critics Statler and Waldorf shake their heads disapprovingly at Segel’s enthusiasm. In the left opera balcony, the movie’s producers shake their heads too. “If you could peel away Jason’s skin,” says producer Todd Lieberman, “there might be felt underneath.”

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Filming has officially begun! I will keep scouring my sources looking for on the set photos but from all the reports I’ve read, they’re keeping the set locations pretty private so we may not see any. As for the release date, I hope they’re able to do it. Releasing in November/December is prime time for awards season.

In an article about the film in the Vallejo Times-Herald (via Cigarettes & Red Vines) producer JoAnne Sellar told the paper that the film “is expected to open in late 2012.” Now let’s not go booking time off work just yet. That’s currently the plan, but obviously things can change and nothing is locked down just yet. That said, given that this is pretty much a no-brainer for an awards season run, and with a year and a half to work with, making that deadline shouldn’t be too hard.

Perhaps more interestingly, Sellar denied that the film had any connection with Scientology or L. Ron Hubbard, telling the paper, “It’s a World War II drama. It’s about a drifter after World War II.” Of course, we know that’s only part of the story. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons, David Warshofsky, Laura Dern, Lena Endre, Rami Malek and Madisen Beaty the film centers on Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), who returns from WWII and starts a religion (not unlike Scientology), taking Freddie Sutton (Phoenix), a former alcoholic, under his wing.

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Stylist has posted a great new interview with Amy which also included a new photo of our girl. The photo has been added to the gallery and you can read the interview below.

Edit: As Mac pointed out in the comments, the photo is actually from Amy’s 2010 appearance on Jimmy Fallon. I thought it looked familiar but I didn’t look in the talk show appearances section for it. Thank you Mac for letting me know!

In person, Amy Adams is petite, demure, softly spoken; everything you might expect her to be. Since breaking out in Junebug in 2005 as a happy-go-lucky chatterbox who gives birth to a stillborn baby (a heart-rending role that saw her score her first Oscar nomination), the 36-year-old actress, raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Colorado, has made a habit of playing twee but lovable characters. From a fairytale princess in Disney fantasy Enchanted in 2007, to a young nun alongside Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2008’s Doubt (cue Oscar nomination two).

But it was her star turn in The Fighter earlier this year, in which she played Charlene, the straight-talking girlfriend of real-life boxer Micky “Irish” Ward (a woman who brawls, swears and takes no crap) that proved she’s an actress who has bite too. Her brilliant performance not only landed her Oscar nomination three and a nod from BAFTA for the role (she lost out to her co-star, Melissa Leo, who plays Micky’s overbearing mother) but earmarked her to the industry as somebody who can play tough girls just as well as the nice ones. Next year she’ll star in On The Road as the drug-addicted wife of Viggo Mortensen’s character Old Bull Lee before stepping into the shoes of feisty journalist Lois Lane in the new Superman film, Man Of Steel. Just to demonstrate that she’ll continue to mix it up though, both films will hit cinemas after her role in the new Muppets movie.

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Thank you Mac for pointing me to this wonderful interview that Mtv posted. For those that are not aware, Margot played Lois Lane in the Christopher Reeve Superman films in the late 70′s and early 80′s. This is the Superman I grew up with and Margot is who I picture when I hear the name Lois Lane.

I think the casting is just inspired. The director sounds very, very bright. So clearly there will be something interesting going on.

MTV NEWS: What do you think about Amy Adams as Lois Lane?

MARGOT KIDDER: She’s a brilliant, wonderful actress! She’s incredible. She’s an extraordinarily accomplished young lady — and gorgeous and full of energy and spirit. She’s so different from part to part, it’s going to be really interesting to see what she does with Lois.

MTV: What’s the key to playing a great Lois Lane?

KIDDER: Gosh, I think Amy Adams is so much better an actress than I am that I wouldn’t even for a second presume to give her any advice on the subject at all!

MTV: Do not sell your Lois Lane short!

KIDDER: Well, thank you. But she’s amazing, this girl.

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ComingSoon just posted a fantastic exclusive interview with Amy and her Muppets co-star Jason Segal. And according to the interview, it looks as though we have at least one confirmed(?) event to look forward to this summer: Amy’s first ever appearance at Comic-Con where there will be a presentation for The Muppets.

I did not like that paparazzi was getting pictures of the Muppets being puppeted because I feel like part of the fun is for kids not to ever see that.

One of the things we were most excited about seeing at this year’s Disney presentation at CinemaCon was the first footage from their holiday release, The Muppets, because for so many people, the Muppets have come to represent everything good in the world–childhood, fun, humor–and the idea of them being brought back to the big screen after such a long time has made a lot of adults feel like kids again.

The footage shown during the presentation was a quick montage of scenes that weren’t quite in shape to be considered a “teaser trailer,” more of a sizzle reel that mostly focused on the video campaign that Disney and the Jim Henson Company have been doing to get the Muppets back into the public eye, especially for younger audiences who wouldn’t be familiar with “The Muppet Show” or some of the earlier movies.

Jason Segel, the brainchild behind reviving the Muppets, being a lifelong fan, and his leading lady Amy Adams were on-hand to talk about their love for the Muppets and what went into making the movie, which follows Segel’s character Gary and his puppet roommate Walter, both of whom are giant Muppets fans who set out to find them after they’ve split up in hopes of reuniting them in order to save the studio, finding Fozzie Bear performing in Reno and Miss Piggy in Paris and others in locations they were hesitant to reveal.

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Not according to Mtv!!

“[Lois] won a Pulitzer and kinda given up on guys by the time she meets Superman,” Millar continued “She can’t be a 25-year-old.”

The internet has been buzzing this week over the announcement that Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams will play Lois Lane in Zack Snyder’s upcoming “Superman: Man of Steel” movie. Overall, fans seem to love the casting — but if there was one negative to be found, it was a frequent complaint regarding the age difference (nine years) between Adams and her on-screen Superman, Henry Cavill.

But does it matter?

An older woman dating a younger man certainly isn’t unheard of, but the nine-year age difference — Adams is 36, Cavill is 28 — has struck a certain portion of fandom as, well… a little odd.

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Well, we all knew them but it’s still a fun read.

Amy Adams has landed the iconic role of journalist Lois Lane in the upcoming Superman reboot from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. She joins Henry Cavill, Diane Lane and Kevin Costner on the production, which will be directed by Zack Snyder.

Here are five facts about the Oscar-nominated actress:

1. She made her big-screen debut in 1999 in Drop Dead Gorgeous. The movie, which starred Denise Richards, Kirsten Dunst and Ellen Barkin, centers on a small-town beauty pageant that turns deadly as it becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to win.

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Benefit Bad Gal Mascara “I have long lashes and this mascara makes them full and thick and doesn’t clump.”

Dove Go Fresh Deodorant. “The cucumber is my favorite!”

Cynthia Vincent Knee High Boots. “Most knee high boots make me think ‘naughty’ but these are so versatile and elegant, and maybe just a little bit naughty”

Yon-Ka Serum Repairing Oil Concentrate. “I use this at night and I’ve noticed it helps even out my skin texture, I have extremely dry skin.”

Teutonia Stroller. “I’m a new mom and this is a whole traveling system with car seat and stroller. It is all purpose and so amazing, and it is table height!”

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