Amy Adams has given a new interview to Flicks and Bits talking about her new movie ‘The Master’, which is currently in limited release in Los Angeles and New York. Talking about the phenomenal response to the Master, both from the audience and critics, Adams says, “I’m just proud of ‘The Master,’ I’m proud for Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman that they were able to do such amazing performances in ‘The Master,’ and whenever people respond to your work in a positive way it’s really rewarding. You go into to it so that audiences will respond and so that’s always very very rewarding. And Joaquin, his performance as Freddie Quell is like nothing I’ve seen before. It’s one of those characters that I think will go down in film history.”
She also talks about her research character for the film and her character, saying, “I’ve always been interested in the roles of women in the 20th century, because it was such a quick growing time and roles changed so quickly and so much. And when I was thinking about the era in ’The Master,’ one of the things I re-read was ‘The Feminine Mystique‘ by Betty Friedan,’ which I had read along time before. And this book talks about women’s roles right after World War II, when the climate for women changed, and how we were just becoming empowered after the men went off to war. That was one thing I re-read and thought about for Peggy, definitely.”
