Yes this is an interview with Emily Blunt and not Amy.  But Amy is a main focus of the interview so I thought it should be posted.

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It was on the set of a historical drama about the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan that Emily Blunt and Amy Adams struck up a friendship that would result in a dark-humored movie about two sisters who clean up after blood-soaked corpses for a living.

Welcome to the bizarre world of Hollywood, in which alliances are forged in the most peculiar of circumstances and give birth to projects that at first make you go, “Say what?” In the case of Blunt and Adams, their first encounter took place during the filming of “Charlie Wilson’s War”—Blunt played Tom Hanks’ lover, Adams his Congressional aide—and the outcome, several years later, is the oddball gem, “Sunshine Cleaning.”

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Amy is one of the celebs featured this month for InStyle’s “Transformation”.  Check out Amy’s looks from 1992 all the way to the Oscars this year.

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The buzz in this article is about Meryl, but it’s nice to see Julie & Julia getting some press this far away from its release (in August).

And while Pfeiffer has never won an Oscar, Meryl Streep just lost for the 13th time. She could be contending again for playing chef Julia Child in “Julie and Julia.” Writer-turned-director Nora Ephron earned Oscar nods for her original scripts for “Silkwood,” “When Harry Met Sally” and “Sleepless in Seattle.” In her adaptation of Julie Powell’s best-selling memoir, Ephron tells the parallel stories of a modern day woman — two-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams (“Junebug,” “Doubt”) — working her way through Julia Child’s classic cookbook and its origins.

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How far from a convent can you get? After her Oscar-nominated performance opposite Meryl Streep in Doubt, Amy Adams is trading in her nun’s habit for a blood-spattered apron in Sunshine Cleaning.

From the makers of Little Miss Sunshine, the dark dramedy (co-starring Emily Blunt) gives Adams the leading role as a mom trying to pay for her daughter’s schooling by cleaning up gory crime scenes.

Q: Calling this a change of pace hardly does it justice.

A: I know, isn’t being an actress wonderful? Actually, it was challenging to play Rose who’s a single mom and hasn’t really made a lot of her life and doesn’t have a very strong sense of self worth. Even when she finally turns things around by starting her cleaning business, she’s on her own and feeling very alone. So it was hard to step into that persona every day.
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It didn’t feel like make-believe. That was hard, emotionally.

Blood. Guts. Maggots and corpses. These aren’t exactly the sorts of images that most visualize when they think of Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams. Yet gory death becomes her element in “Sunshine Cleaning,” where Adams stars as Rose, the once-popular high school cheerleader dealing with a fall from grace: She’s a single mother who finds herself cleaning the sprawling homes of high school classmates. Her life reaches a crossroads when she and her sister (Emily Blunt) find their calling as a crime-scene cleanup crew. Academy Award-winner Alan Arkin also stars in the film. We spoke with Adams, 34, about finding new life through death.

Q: What made you want to be a part of this film?

A: I was attracted to the sister and family dynamic, and the story of my character’s individual plight. I have two sisters, and I know that sister relationships are very complex and intimate. And it becomes even more interesting as you grow up and start seeing each other as individuals and adults.

Q: Rose is an intense and driven lady. Was it difficult to keep up?

A: Yes. Playing Rose was very draining. She was always trying so hard to make everything work for everyone. But she didn’t have a lot of self-worth. Then she comes to a crossroads in her life and starts finding change and purpose. But she’s doing it all on her own and feeling very alone. To walk into that every day was hard, but also very rewarding.

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“Hey, I’ve got an ass!” exclaimed Amy Adams at our cover shoot, sashaying in a chic but somewhat risqué number that showed off her curves. “If Kate Winslet can show hers in a magazine, so can I!” The endearing star of Junebug, Enchanted, Doubt and this month’s Sunshine Cleaning showed us another side of her saucy self while modeling a selection of the season’s sexiest designs. Those perceptions of her as a faux-naïve? Right out the door. Those perceptions of her as a kind, humble, lovely soul, I’m happy to report, stayed perfectly intact.

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The idea is she winds up in the furthest place from Dublin and it’s about her journey and how she changes as a character

Next month shooting will begin on Leap Year, a romantic comedy starring the Oscar-nominated Amy Adams and boasting Simon Beaufoy, who won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire, as script writer.

Adams, best-known for her role in Enchanted, the box-office hit about a fairytale princess who finds herself in New York, will play an American who travels to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend on February 29. According to the film, not only is it Irish tradition for women to propose on “leap day” but their men have to say “yes”.

When weather forces Adams’s uptight character to veer off course, she finds herself forced to rely on a surly local innkeeper to help her find her beau. The two trek across the countryside to try to get to Dublin to pop the question before time runs out. The pub owner will be played by Matthew Goode, an actor hailed as one of Britain’s rising stars.

Producers from Spyglass Entertainment arrived in Ireland a week ago and are currently scouting for remote and picturesque locations for the shoot.

Jake Weiner, a creative producer on the film, said shooting is due to begin at the start of April for two months. He said: “We are looking for the most beautiful remote places in Ireland to shoot the movie. It’s going to be a great project and we’re thrilled to be here.”

Irish cast and crew will be employed on the movie, which will be directed by Anand Tucker, who directed Shopgirl. “The idea is she winds up in the furthest place from Dublin and it’s about her journey and how she changes as a character,” said Weiner. “We are trying to figure out where is the most remote place to be coming from.”

Adams was nominated for a best supporting actress at last week’s Oscars for her role in Doubt, losing out to Penelope Cruz. It was her second supporting-actress nomination, having received the nod for 2005’s Junebug.

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I have a cynical side, a dark side, but I own that.

It’s quite disarming meeting Amy Adams. Within minutes my carefully crafted sequence of questions has completely gone out the window and we’re having a lengthy discussion about my belt, Pac-Man, Atari computers, and what a terrible friend she insists she is.

On a grey and wet December afternoon in London, Adams seems as sprightly as if it was the first day of spring. That may be because just this morning she received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Sister James in Doubt, the film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s Tony award-winning play.

It’s her second Golden Globe nomination and, just as in the case of Junebug, she didn’t end up winning but went on to receive a nomination for an Academy Award. So tonight at the Oscars she’ll be competing with Penelope Cruz, Marisa Tomei and her co-star Viola Davis in the Best Supporting Actress category.

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This is an amazing read! Probably one of the best I’ve ever seen.

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When I watch the Oscars this weekend, or, more accurately, watch them while hosting on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” I’ll be thinking of a lunch I had sometime before Christmas. I met the actress Amy Adams on Dec. 3rd at the Gramercy Park Hotel for that lunch. I had been thinking for a long long time what I might say to Adams upon our meeting. But when we did meet, I simply said, “I’ve been waiting for you for so long.”

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Should Amy Adams ever discover some Irish roots, she really should consider entering the Rose of Tralee. Red of hair, green of eye and sweet of nature, she would win hands-down any number of Lovely Girl contests. When a waiter knocks on the door of her suite in London’s Dorchester Hotel, she jumps to her feet to take a tray of coffee from him. He gingerly hands it over and then hovers by the door, evidently terrified that Hollywood’s newest sweetheart will scald herself on his watch.

Unphased, Ms Adams moves with the elegance that comes with years of ballet training and sets the heavy silverware on the table with a neat dip and twirl. The waiter resumes breathing, and leaves. “You have to do things for yourself,” she says, “or else you might go crazy.” Thank God for Amy Adams. Relatively new to the cotton-wool world of mollycoddled top-tier actors, she’s the proverbial breath of fresh air.

She looks much younger than her 34 years, an impression that allows her to carry off the role of ingénue nun in new movie Doubt. Caught between the twin powerhouses of Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, she is the fragile fulcrum around which the two revolve.

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