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AMY ADAMS HAS A FAIRYTALE FUTURE…
As you read this, six-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams will be making her West End debut in a radical reworking of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. Playing to 640 people per night, Adams, says director Jeremy Herrin, “wants to really dig in” to the role of Amanda Wingfield, an overbearing matriarch who longs for elements of her youth.
Adams will be treading the boards until lateAugust, safe in the knowledge that her Hollywood career is not on hold. Anything but, with longawaited Enchanted sequel Disenchanted dropping on Disney+ in November, and horror-comedy Nightbitch due to start lensing in September.
In the former, Adams will reprise her role of Giselle, the Andalasian princess who was banished to New York City by an evil queen in the 2007 original, only to find true love with divorce lawyer Robert (Patrick Dempsey). Disenchanted is set 10 years after the happily ever after, as Giselle and Robert move to Monroeville, a suburb overseen by the nefarious Malvina Monroe (Maya Rudolph). The title suggests this particular fairytale will be a little darker than the first, though don’t expect anything too Grimm. Adams grew up loving Disney animations and will again play it straight, with Giselle influenced by her admiration for Julie Andrews. “I thought about her a lot and how she just surrendered to the magic of roles and there was no judgement of her characters,” she says.
There won’t be too much Mary Poppins to Adams’ turn in Nightbitch, mind. Based on Rachel Yoder’s acclaimed bestselling novel, it’ll see the chameleonic actress play a stay-at-home mom in the suburbs who suspects that she’s, er, turning into a dog. If that sounds barking, director Marielle Heller (The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me?) points out that Yodel’s novel taps into the pressures of being a modern mother and embraces the feral power that is deeply rooted in motherhood.
“Rachel’s darkly hilarious tale of motherhood and rage made me feel seen,” says Heller. “And adapting it with Amy Adams in my mind has been the thing that has kept me going through the pandemic.”