# Amy Adams - for real or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806 "2014-03-16T00:24:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/21 "2014-03-16T17:13:06Z")
She’s my favorite actress and I’ll see anything she’s in. Although I had seen her in _Catch Me If You Can_, I fell for her in _Junebug_ and became convinced that she was the best of her generation in _Enchanted_. In that, she had a character that [went from being a cartoon girl to a flesh and blood woman.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVADyXM2f_A) ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/22 "2014-03-16T17:29:28Z")
I’m wondering how you could have forgotten Amy Adams?! She’s hot in everything she does. Still no idea why Jim from The Office dumped her for bland Pam instead ---
**Author:** ![theR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@theR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theR)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/23 "2014-03-16T18:06:52Z")
> [@Red\_Barchetta](#): > > I’m wondering how you could have forgotten Amy Adams?! She’s hot in everything she does. > > Still no idea why Jim from The Office dumped her for bland Pam instead I agree. I could watch _The Muppets_ over and over. I’m surprised nobody mentioned that movie, because I think it’s a good example of a role where she still is incredibly appealing despite obviously not sexing it up. I am a bit biased as a longtime Muppets fan, but I thought she (and that movie) was great. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/24 "2014-03-16T18:14:46Z")
> [@theR](#): > > I agree. I could watch _The Muppets_ over and over. I’m surprised nobody mentioned that movie, because I think it’s a good example of a role where she still is incredibly appealing despite obviously not sexing it up. I am a bit biased as a longtime Muppets fan, but I thought she (and that movie) was great. Post #5. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/25 "2014-03-16T18:55:29Z")
[Drop Dead Gorgeous](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_Dead_Gorgeous_(film)) anyone? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/26 "2014-03-16T19:09:50Z")
She is not really all that beautiful, she just looks that way. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/27 "2014-03-16T19:18:08Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Catch me if you can was one of her earliest roles, the part was fairly small and she looked very different (it was 12 years ago). I didn’t remember her from there either. Her part was not all that small. The lead character falls in love with her and they get engaged. She then leads the FBI to him and causes him to get recaptured. I would guess she has one of the top five largest roles in that film. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/28 "2014-03-16T19:18:16Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > The scene in the bathroom where they confront one another is an interesting example of the way that camera angles can distort what we’re seeing. Adams is much shorter than Lawrence, but the camera shoots up at an angle so that their faces seem to be even with one another. (I suppose she could be on a rise for that static scene, but it probably wouldn’t have been necessary.) Judging from the angle of her pelvis, she’s at least in some seriously high heels. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/29 "2014-03-16T19:24:47Z")
What? No mention of Talladega Nights? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/30 "2014-03-16T19:27:06Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > She is not really all that beautiful, she just looks that way. 😉 She sells it well, I guess. Which, some say, is a working definition of Star Quality. (On IMDb, there are entire threads on the “Night at the Museum 2” board devoted to her posterior. _Entire threads_.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/31 "2014-03-16T21:45:07Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > …In Catch Me If You Can, she played a very young girl - perhaps as young as 13 or 14… She wasn’t playing _that_ young a part. Her character was a nurse who brings home her boyfriend (a doctor, they thought, but actually the master deceiver played by Leonardo DiCaprio) to meet her parents, and they even discuss marriage. She was indeed adorable in _Enchanted_. I thought I’d hate the movie but it was actually pretty good, and she was far and away the best thing about it. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/32 "2014-03-16T22:53:31Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > She sells it well, I guess. Which, some say, is a working definition of Star Quality. (On IMDb, there are entire threads on the “Night at the Museum 2” board devoted to her posterior. _Entire threads_.) To paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson “Not just yes, but _HELL_ YES!” She definitely rocked that pair of jodhpurs. I haven’t seen that movie since it was in the theater, but didn’t it feature an extraordinary amount of cameltoe for a kid’s movie? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/33 "2014-03-17T01:42:08Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > [Drop Dead Gorgeous](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_Dead_Gorgeous_(film)) anyone? She pretty well known around here for time she spent at the Chanhassen dinner theatre before auditioning for Drop Dead Gorgeous that was filmed around Minneapolis and got her big break. One of my favorite movies with some great performances by Ellen Barkin and Allison Janney. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/34 "2014-03-17T01:47:47Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > I liked _Sunshine Cleaning_. Some might be a bit put off by the subject matter but I enjoyed the movie. > [Sunshine Cleaning - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Cleaning) **I love** _Sunshine Cleaning_. Great movie. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/35 "2014-03-17T03:56:53Z")
She’s an amazingly versatile actress, in that she’s totally convincing in comedies, musicals, and dramas. Not too many others can make that claim nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/36 "2014-03-17T14:15:10Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I normally wouldn’t try to guess about this sort of thing, as I have no way of knowing what kind of woman you typically find attractive or why, but in this case I do have an idea. Not to be vulgar, but could you have been knocked out by her knockers? She wore some very plunging necklines in _American Hustle_. > > I don’t remember Adams’s role in _Catch Me If You Can_ and haven’t seen _The Fighter_ or _Julie and Julia_, but in _Her_ it seemed to me like her character wasn’t supposed to be particularly sexy. She definitely wasn’t supposed to be glamorous – her character didn’t wear much makeup, kept her hair pulled back, and dressed in kind of frumpy looking clothes. She’s still an attractive woman, but came across as more cute in a low-key way than a great beauty. But in _Enchanted_, where she played a Disney cartoon princess come to life, and a minor role on _The Office_ as a short-term love interest for Jim, I thought she looked great. The _Office_ episode in which she first appeared was actually called “The Hot Girl”. > > Google tells me she’s only 5’4", but she may have been wearing disco heels or otherwise made to look taller in _American Hustle_. In [these](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3407534848/tt1800241?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_14) [pictures](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1373949952/tt1800241?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_2) from the movie then she doesn’t seem much shorter than Jennifer Lawrence, who’s 5’9". I agree she’s pretty/alluring, but I think her plunging necklines were actually kind of a knock against _American Hustle_ — it just seems that for a period piece, you wouldn’t put a character in various outfits like that for basically the entire movie. \*MAYBE \* someone had one “Jennifer Lopez” dress like that, they certainly didn’t have a whole collection like that in the 1970s. +1 for the person above that was surprised we got that far without talking about Talladega Nights. She was a cutie in that, and showed some fair comedic chops too. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/37 "2014-03-17T14:39:32Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > The one I like that no one has mentioned is Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Pettigrew is the best! She and Frances McDormand play off each other fabulously dont they? Amy may have had a bit of cosmetic enhancement lately which could explain her more visible appearance. She’s always been cute tho. Not glam but cute. ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/38 "2014-03-17T14:43:30Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Catch me if you can was one of her earliest roles, the part was fairly small and she looked very different (it was 12 years ago). I didn’t remember her from there either. She played a nursing student who became engaged to the protagonist. She would have been cast to play someone in their late teens/early twenties. A little older than the OP guessed. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/39 "2014-03-17T14:54:46Z")
> [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](#): > > She played a nursing student who became engaged to the protagonist. She would have been cast to play someone in their late teens/early twenties. A little older than the OP guessed. As noted in post 31. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806/40 "2014-03-17T16:26:20Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > She’s an amazingly versatile actress, in that she’s totally convincing in comedies, musicals, and dramas. Not too many others can make that claim nowadays. Well, there’s Anne Hathaway. (Hathaway could’ve played Lois Lane, but I can’t see Adams as Catwoman.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-adams-for-real-or-not/683806.md?page=3)