Star of critically acclaimed films like Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia and Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals and a member of DC Comic’s superhero films (Justice League, Man of Steel, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice), Amy Adams has managed to balance out her career in ways only future actors can manage.
Appearing on the cover of the latest edition of The Hollywood Reporter, the five-time Oscar nominee, discussed her HBO limited series, Sharp Objects, from novelist Gillian Flynn and creator Marti Noxon at great length and the rise of complicated women onscreen, among other things.
Sharp Objects is set to make its debut on July 8 with Amy playing the lead role of Camille. In the interview where Amy was also joined by Gillian Flynn and creator Marti Noxon, she spoke about how she prepared to get herself into the character.
She told THR: “I often said that if I left set or left a scene feeling like I needed to cry or left crying, I had done my job. Because Camille isn’t someone who’s going to cry in front of people, she’s going to internalize that pain. I felt like I had residual pain from her more than pain playing her. I also tend to be a sufferer of, like, 2 to 3 o’clock in the morning insomnia, and that’s when Camille would catch up with me. I’d wake up in the middle of the night and have like unexplained terror or self-loathing and I‘d have to work my way out of it. That said, the scenes that were hardest were the ones with Patricia [Clarkson, who plays Camille’s mom].”
She added: “Because she just keeps going back to the same well and drawing the same poison water. And that’s so common and it’s something we all, ugh, it’s hard to talk about. I have two parents who are alive and I feel like I shouldn’t …”
The interview also included Amy’s views on pay disparity, wearing prosthetics scars, and whether the series will get another season. The upcoming Sharp Objects series is being directed by Big Little Lies director Jean-Marc Vallee.
