Summary
Amy Adamshas been top-billed in some of our favorite movies for decades.
But as the monotony and everyday stresses build up, she finds herself literally transforming into a dog.
COLLIDER: How are you doing today?
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AMY ADAMS: I’m well, how are you doing?
How do you feel when people are wearing a bootleg t-shirt from a movie that you were in?
I just got it.
I was like, Well, that depends.
Oh, I love it.
Actually, it makes me say I want one.
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I love this movie so much.
ADAMS: Is that the human signal, or do you know which symbol?
You’ve been wearing this the whole time.
A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.
ADAMS: I know!
I really wanted to get a tattoo of one of them.
It’s not too late.
You have plenty of time.
If you don’t mind me asking about it, I love that movie so much.
What do you remember about making it?
Did you realize it would be so special when you were making it?
It was very singular and strangely meditative.
Denis [Villeneuve] creates a very focused, quiet, fun, respectful set.
Jumping into why I get to talk to you.
You are, as usual, fantastic in this role.
ADAMS: Thank you.
It’s so different than what you’ve done recently.
I heard you went from the sequel ofEnchantedto filming this.
ADAMS: Yeah, I did.
That was sort of the film history of it.
It’s so amazing the difference in roles.
You get offered, I’m sure, some really good scripts.
What was it about this one that said, Oh, I need to do this?"
ADAMS: I actually received a manuscript of the book before we had brought Marielle on at all.
She said yes, and we were off to the races.
How Does Nightbitch Reflect Modern Motherhood?
There’s this bar of expectation that keeps moving, and it’s just so frustrating.
I know my sister is gonna love this movie.
She’s a mom, and I talk to her all the time about the struggles.
I think a lot of people are gonna be seen when they watch this.
ADAMS: We don’t talk about it.
The actress plays a new mom who goes through a feral transformation in Marielle Heller’s latest film.
You think that’s the reality when, in actuality, everything is posed.
ADAMS: Oh, sure.
That was such a great thing that Marielle did, too, with this movie.
We really wanted to create something that was unfiltered, and I mean that literally and figuratively just unfiltered.
Just a take on a changing body, a changing mentality.
ADAMS: Yeah, I already did it.
What can you tease about that project?
What drew you to that material?
ADAMS: To be fair, I’d heard of it, but I had not read it.
I love his sensibility.
Had one conversation with him, read the script, and jumped on a plane to New Zealand.
I was really excited to work with him.
Jenna [Ortega] is absolutely wonderful and so perfect as Klara.
Nightbitchis now playing in theaters.
