-Our first guest tonight is an Emmy-
and Academy Award-nominated actress you know from films
such as "American Hustle," "Arrival," and "Vice,"
as well as HBO's limited series "Sharp Objects."
She stars in "Hillbilly Elegy," which is in select theaters now
and currently streaming on Netflix.
Let's take a look.
-I begged them to let you stay here!
-Well, nobody asked you to! I'm not a charity case.
-Why am I here, Mom? -Feel superior, maybe?
-How can you be so [bleep] selfish?
Do you even care what you do to Lindsay?
-J.D., shut up. -You leave Lindsey out of this!
-You did the same thing to Mamaw.
Mom, you just took and took from her
until she was practically bankrupt.
-Yeah, she was a goddamn saint.
-All she did was bail you out, Mom!
-Except when it mattered!
-Did you actually want to be dead, Mom,
or are you too lazy to try?
-J.D., don't! -Oh, I tried, plenty!
-Please welcome back to the show our friend Amy Adams.
How are you, Amy?
-I'm well, how are you doing?
-I'm hanging in there. I know you're back in L.A. now.
You just finished shooting up in Atlanta,
but how has the whole last nine months been for you?
-It's been different. Yeah.
It's been okay, but I know
we're all going through it, you know?
-Your daughter is 10 years old, is that right?
-Yeah, she's 10, and she's doing a great job
on her Zoom school, which took a second to get used to.
-Be honest, do you think that after, like,
over the last nine months, do you think she likes
her parents more or less?
-Less. -[ Laughs ]
We appreciate your honesty. -It's true.
I mean, I don't know.
We have a really close relationship, but it is --
it's strange being at home with her all day.
I feel like she's gotten an insight into us
that she didn't have before.
So, in some ways, she's probably more understanding,
but she probably likes us less. -Yeah.
I wonder, too -- I mean, I feel as though
that's a really good point, that they just see us more
and they realize, "Oh, you are just human beings, too.
You're not anything special."
We thought when you went off to the office or something,
you were doing something incredible, and now we can see
that's not really the case.
-She asked me, she's like, "Is this what you do all day
when I'm at school?"
I'm like, "No, no, no, no, I actually, you know,
put clothes on.
I'm now I'm in pajamas typically, but --"
-I can't believe you raised the level of difficulty
and got a new puppy in the middle of all this.
-We did.
It's actually been a really great focus.
Her name's Mochi, and she's just this
fluffy, white... just such a cutie.
I did realize that having --
I forgot how much work a new puppy is,
but it was a good distraction.
-And just -- Now, I'm assuming, again,
because of the time we're living in, Mochi probably
doesn't see people other than the three of you?
-Yeah, Mochi, I'm discovering,
has a little, like, social anxiety,
so she's been seeing more people of late
and she's not really sure how to respond to them.
She doesn't understand people other than the three of us,
so resocializing her is going to be really interesting, yeah.
-And you have other dogs as well,
or is Mochi the only one?
-We have two other dogs, Sadie and Boo.
And we had another dog that passed away last summer, so...
-Gotcha. Are the other dogs taking to Mochi?
Are they helpful influences?
-It took a second.
Boo, like, went on a hunger strike.
She did not eat for about four days.
We were getting a little worried that she was just not happy
about the whole situation.
But they've come around, and now they're really good friends.
And, like, my husband posted something on Instagram of them
just, like, canoodling on the couch for hours.
They, like, hug each other and chew on each other's face.
-That's all you can ask for in the end.
I want to ask about "Hillbilly Elegy," but I also
want to ask about a film you finished last year, I believe,
called "Woman in the Window," which is about
a woman in New York with severe agoraphobia,
who basically lives in her own apartment afraid to go outside.
It must be strange to know that you have finished a thing
from the past that is now so much about the present.
-I know. I filmed it, like, two years ago, too,
so it was a totally different time.
And now I'm just -- I'll be curious to see
if people want to, like, be in that apartment with her,
or if they're like, it's too real, you know?
Although she has a very nice town home in this film, so...
I wanted to live there, actually.
-That is -- yeah, it's still nice to --
no matter how bad a thing people are going through on TV,
if they have a nice piece of real estate in New York,
you can't help but think, "Man, I wish I could switch places."
-Listen, I could quarantine in that town home, yeah.
No, it's -- it will be interesting.
I'll be curious to see how people respond to that
when it comes out, like, if that creates a feeling
of claustrophobia that they want to visit?
It will be fun to see.
-Well, it's interesting because you balance it against
the other kinds of things you see now, which is people
in close quarters without masks, which is sort of the opposite.
It might be nice for people to say "Oh, I like this one."
-Yeah. -"Because I don't --
Like, I know that whatever she's going through,
at least she's keeping herself socially distanced."
-That's true.
I was watching "The Big Bang Theory,"
and I was like, "Oh, remember when we could, like, eat
with friends in our place?" -[ Laughs ]
-All the eating on the show.
-I want to talk to you about "Hillbilly Elegy."
We're going to take a quick break,
and we'll be right back with more from Amy Adams.