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With her effervescent personality and “beautiful face of light,” Amy Adams plays a believable ingenue. Yet the thirty-nine-year-old relishes revealing new depths. As a seductive 1970s scam artist in “American Hustle,” for instance, audiences and critics alike delight in her character’s foul mouth and plunging necklines — and the role garnered her an Oscar nomination.
“She purposely keeps a little mystery about herself,” the late Philip Seymour Hoffman once said of Adams, who played the wife of his cult-leading charlatan in “The Master” (2012) and a nun to his priest under suspicion in “Doubt” (2008).
I’ve been a fan of Adams since she played a wide-eyed fairytale princess brought to life in “Enchanted” (2007), so it was a kick to turn up some little-known facts about her (such as: She quit working as a Hooters waitress after three weeks because “short shorts and beer don’t mix!”).
Read more about the watchable and amusingly quotable Adams here.