-Our first guest tonight
is an Academy Award- and Emmy-nominated actress
you know from films like "American Hustle," "Vice,"
and HBO's "Sharp Objects."
Her new film "The Woman in the Window"
begins streaming on Netflix May 14th.
Please welcome back to the show our friend Amy Adams.
How are you, Amy?
-Hi! I'm well.
How are you doing? Good to see you again.
-It's great to see you. I'm doing well.
Last we checked in was November.
We were talking about your quarantine hobbies,
the skills that you picked up along the way.
-Or not picked up, you know. -No, right.
Yeah, I guess that was where we ultimately ended up,
that you hadn't --
Have you improved at all in the last six months?
-Not on those particular skills.
No, actually, my string instrument repertoire
is still pretty limited -- -Gotcha.
-But I've picked up some new stuff.
I started dancing again.
-Alright.
-It's an old hobby,
but it feels different in my old body.
so, it's -- it has its own set of challenges.
I still think, like, I'm really...
flexible, I don't know.
Skilled. I'm not.
-Do you -- Is dance something you do on your own?
I know you have a 10-year-old daughter, correct?
-I do. -Do you dance in front of her?
-Um, not if she can help it. -Right.
-I mean, I do dance in front of her.
I actually...
She loves music and she does a lot of lessons, but I really...
She has these beautiful feet
that would have been great for ballet.
But I made her take ballet
and then I told her she could quit when she was 10,
and it was like 30 seconds after she turned 10,
she was like, "Are we good? Have I done it?"
-I will say, nothing would make me want to dance less
than if my parents told me I had beautiful feet.
I think -- I think you might have creeped her right out.
-I think I did it wrong, Seth.
-[ Laughing ]
"Look at your beautiful feet."
-"Look at them!"
-"Don't waste the beautiful feet."
[ Laughter ] -Exactly. Exactly.
There's a line from a movie called "Center Stage"
where the actress goes,
"You didn't have the feet, I don't have the heart,"
and I think of that every time I see her point her feet.
Like... -[ Laughing ]
-You're actually in Ireland right now,
which is very exciting.
You're shooting a sequel to "Enchanted,"
15 years later.
How has Ireland been treating you so far?
-It's been -- It's been really wonderful.
I mean, it's definitely different being places
during different quarantines and lockdowns,
but it's been great.
It's been great. Yeah.
-And how is it to return to,
you know, 15-year-old source material?
And you're co-starring with Maya Rudolph,
which must be a nice addition, as well.
-I am so excited for her to get here.
I don't want to give too much of the plot away,
but she's the baddie, and she's...
I'm so excited for the cast that we have assembled.
'Cause we have a lot of new talent and a lot of our old --
I hate to say the word "old" anymore.
I mean, it was fun when you were younger,
but now I'm like, you know, "returning favorites,"
as opposed to "old favorites." -[ Laughing ]
-Yeah. -Familiar faces.
-Familiar faces. Yeah. Exactly.
-This is, you know, slightly lighter fare
than maybe some of your more recent work.
Is it nice to do something like that again,
especially considering the fact
that very little has been light recently?
-It is.
It is so nice to get to do something that...
Really, the whole intention of doing this
is to create joy and hope,
and it's something that means a lot to me.
And I was really reticent to come back to the role
'cause I just loved her so much.
But it really felt like the right time.
Like, Giselle --
I really wanted to --
to sort of embody her and then see where she's at
and ♪ spread her joy ♪
You know. There we go.
-I know that it was, obviously, a limited Oscars.
You were not at the Oscars, but I had to ask,
how did you feel watching your "Hillbilly Elegy" co-star,
Glenn Close, a dear friend,
doing Da Butt?
Is this a skill set that you knew she had?
-I did not know she had this skill set.
It does not surprise me. -Yes.
-Glenn Close is a woman of many talents
and she is, perhaps, the coolest woman I know.
She's amazing.
So, it didn't surprise me, but I was delighted.
-I want to ask about your new film,
which is, uh, slightly less light than "Enchanted."
We'll be right back with more from Amy Adams.