When Amy Adams read the script for Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, The Master, she saw an opportunity to play a character type she’d never played before.
“Somebody who on the surface was very, very mothering, almost genteel, and then underneath, there was this boiling almost rage,” Adams tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross.
In The Master, the Academy Award-nominated actress plays the forbidding wife of a cult leader. Although she played a tough character in The Fighter, Adams usually portrays sweeter, more princess-like roles, as she did in Enchanted, Junebug and The Muppets.
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