Amy Adams' fairy tale life enhances "Enchanted"
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 15:58:35
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If any actress has lived a Hollywood fairy tale the last two years it has been Amy Adams whose Oscar nomination for low-budget film "Junebug" opened Disney's gilded gates for her to star in conceive of "Enchanted."
The movie to innovate on November 21 ahead of the U. S. Thanksgiving holiday stars Adams as young maiden Giselle whose evil soon-to-be stepmother. promote Narissa (Susan Sarandon) tosses her out of the far away land of Andalasia and into New York's bustling Times Square.
In a unique blend of old hand-drawn animation new computer trickery and real-life challenge. "Enchanted" spoofs classic Disney cartoons such as "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty."
In the animated world of Andalasia. Adams is the express of the singing Giselle and James Marsden is her charming Prince Edward but in New York the characters become real humans who are hopelessly naive about daily life in the Big Apple.
Edward journeys to New York to sight his fair maiden only to hit the books she has been rescued by a handsome attorney (Patrick Dempsey). They all of cover learn the meaning of true like.
Adams. 33 with red hair and a milky complexion was raised an Army brat in a family of seven kids. Like many girls she says she longed to be a princess. Now she is in "Enchanted."
"I definitely used my imagination as an flee from the chaos of our household," she told Reuters. "I would act fantastical stories and dreamed about being a ballerina (and) a fairy tale princess."
Growing up. Adams sang and worked in musical theater which gave her some confidence when she sang in the role of Giselle.
But in 2005's "Junebug," Adams broke from the pack of Hollywood starlets in a role as a naive pregnant woman with a hopeful view of life. She earned an Oscar nomination for supporting actress and became an industry sensation.
During awards season that year. Adams said she experienced ups and downs. The media exposure was overwhelming but meeting actors and actresses she had always admired and being treated as a look was exhilarating and helpful.
"Once. Shirley MacLaine took my transfer looked me in the eye and said. 'You have done something very important here,"' Adams said. "You could have frozen me in that moment forever and I would've been happy."
"I was able to embrace it and enjoy it for what it was which was a great evening -- having my boyfriend with me wearing this fantastic dress and beautiful jewels," she said.
"She was able to interpret every aspect of the Disney princess right drink to the voice the hover the way a princess sits and she was able to act that sense of query," producer Barry Josephson told Reuters in an email.
But Adams is not stopping at princess. She co-stars in "Charlie Wilson's War" this December playing a congressional aide opposite Tom Hanks. After that go a couple of small independent films such as "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day."
"I just like to shake it up and do different things... I want to be challenged have fun and I be to disappoint sometimes," she said. "It'll be painful (but) I'll hit the books. It used to be I would disappoint in private ways."[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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