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Amy Adams might be flying high from playing Amelia Earhart in the Night at the Museum sequel, but her next role took her literally across the Atlantic.

“It’s been amazing. … We’ve gone out to the west and seen beautiful landscapes,” Adams says. It was her first trip to Ireland, where she has been filming Leap Year with Matthew Goode. The film, directed by Anand Tucker, is due in early 2010.

Adams’ character, who plans to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day, “is a very detail-oriented person who has her life planned out, and things sort of go off course with the help of a very handsome, roguish Irishman.”

Can Adams, who’s engaged to actor Darren Le Gallo, relate to being into details? “I can be that way about certain things … It’s easier to do it yourself.”

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After Enchanted the idea of being in a big, white dress is not as exciting as one would think.

Enchanted star Amy Adams is determined to keep her upcoming wedding as low-key as possible – she wants to elope with fiance Darren LeGallo and wed in secret.
The couple became engaged last summer (08) after Le Gallo proposed during a night out in New York.
And although they haven’t set a date for the wedding, Adams, 34, insists she won’t be throwing a star-studded party to celebrate her nuptials.
She says, “After Enchanted the idea of being in a big, white dress is not as exciting as one would think. I have a feeling that one day we will wake up and decide to get married and we’ll just go off and do it. Actually I would like a wedding that was just over. Isn’t that unromantic?
“There is so much emphasis on having the perfect wedding and I think that’s great if it’s something you have fantasised about your whole life, but that’s never been my fantasy.”

‘I see her as a woman who’s ahead of her time but also having fun, embracing that sense of adventure; it’s about believing in yourself and your passions and making the most of the time that you have in life.’

Dressed in a 1930s flying suit and goggles, her strawberry blonde hair in a bouncy bob, Amy Adams climbs into the cockpit of a vintage plane, looking every inch the daredevil adventurer.

We meet in Canada on the set of her new comic film Night at the Museum 2, in which Amy plays aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932).

The actress seems utterly at ease as she prepares to take off on a heart-stopping mission, in her character’s famous single-engine, cherry-red Lockheed Vega.

Amy looks so confident in her plane’s cockpit that it’s a surprise to discover that flying is something she dreads in real life.

‘I’m terrified of flying, it’s really ironic,’ says the actress. ‘I’ve had some embarrassing episodes at airports. Certain American airlines don’t assign seats and there have been times when I couldn’t sit next to my fiancé [actor Darren Le Gallo]. I’ve had a few meltdowns trying to get someone to change seats with me. There was one trip from Los Angeles to New York where I had a panic attack and cried throughout the flight.’

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Interesting new article. Check it out:

Amy Adams originally wanted to be a dancer.

The star — who was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress gong at the 81st Academy Awards for her role in the 2008 movie Doubt — says she only got into acting because ballet dancing was too disciplined.

“I loved performing but I was much more of a singer dancer girl,” she said. “I trained as a ballet dancer so I always thought that was what I was going to do.

“Ballet dancing was too disciplined and too restrained and I was always told off in the chorus lines. ‘Don’t pop your hip, don’t add the flair’.”

I could see Amy as a dancer, could you?

SmithsonianMag posted a cute little interview with Amy talking about her role in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

In this day and age, when kids can access the Internet, it sometimes deprives them of the impact—and inspiration—that comes from seeing something in person.

Actress Amy Adams, 34, has appeared in 25 films and received two Academy Award nominations—most recently for her role as a young nun in 2008′s Doubt. In Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, she plays Amelia Earhart. Adams spoke with Smithsonian‘s Beth Py-Lieberman.

Do you see yourself in Amelia Earhart?
I think most women do. There’s a sense of fun and a sense of adventure that she represents—a woman succeeding in a man’s world.

What did you think about the Earhart exhibit?
We did our shooting in the Air and Space Museum at night, which allowed me to have an intimate experience with the exhibit. When you see how small her plane was, you really understand her fortitude. And the more research I did about her, the more I liked her. When people would ask her, “Why do you fly?” she would say, “For the fun of it.” I think that’s something that gets lost when you first learn about Amelia. It was her spirit more than anything that we were trying to capture.

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“I’m interested in real life—my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.”

Amy is featured in the newest issue of Parade and you can view the interview online plus check out the gorgeous new photoshoot of which I’ve added over ten MQ images to our gallery.  A big thank you to Kate for emailing me about this.

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A little slow-motion and latex, that is what my career needs right now

Amy Adams would love to play a sexy superhero.

The ‘Doubt’ star is desperate to slip into a tight-fitting rubber outfit in a bid to give her career an extra boost.

She said: ‘I have never done an action movie but I think it may be about time. A little slow-motion and latex, that is what my career needs right now.’

This is not the first time the 34-year-old beauty’s naughty side has come to light.

Amy’s ‘Junebug’ co-star Embeth Davidtz recently revealed the actress had a wicked sense of humour.

She explained: ‘The sweet girl in ‘Junebug’ is not who Amy really is. Amy’s much naughtier than anyone I know. I can’t give you examples because they are so beyond X-rated. She’s got the wickedest sense of humour and says what nobody else would think so say.’

Amy – whose performance in ‘Doubt’ earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress this year – has admitted she is not as innocent as she looks.

She quipped: ‘It’s interesting to be perceived as innocent. Innocent of what? I’m certainly not naive. I misbehave. I just do it in private.’

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Hey Amy fans, I was just searching around the web when I found an interesting article in where director, Shawn Levy, talks about Amy:

It also helped Levy land red-hot Oscar-nominee Amy Adams, who joins the franchise as Amelia Earhart. “Amy is almost in a class of her own,” the filmmaker said of his lead actress. “I wanted her, she loved the role. It’s definitely a well-dimensionalized female protagonist — strong, witty, confident, emotional — and Amy responded to it. She is not as improv-crazy as the fellas surrounding her, but she kept up pretty well.”

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Adams won critical acclaim, and that first Oscar nod, with the 2005 indie favorite “Junebug.” Two years later, “Enchanted” turned the redhead into a beloved fairy tale princess. Mike Nichols gave her a role in 2007’s “Charlie Wilson’s War,” and the next year John Patrick Shanley cast her opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep in “Doubt,” for which she was once again named an Oscar nominee.

“Yes, I get to do a lot of really fantastic things at this point in my life,” she says by phone from Los Angeles. “But there were a lot of years where it didn’t look quite so glamorous — very recently.”

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THE Irish film industry is getting a €21.4m boost, thanks to a new Hollywood movie starring Enchanted actress Amy Adams, which is due to start shooting in Wicklow shortly.

An LA film crew are gearing up to descend on the ‘garden of Ireland’ county and begin work on Leap Year, which has been given a massive budget to come over here to ensure the flick looks and feels authentically Irish.

Stepping into the lead role will be stunning star Adams, who was this year nominated for a best-supporting Oscar award for Doubt, alongside Matthew Goode of Watchmen fame.

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