Amy Adams says dyeing her blonde hair red got her different roles

The photo above is of Amy Adams at the Arrival premiere this weekend. Amy brought her husband Darren Le Gallo and daughter Aviana to the premiere. Amy wore Versace from their 2017 Spring Collection. Don’t let that photo fool you, the dress is a trainwreck. I kind of liked it from this side view – nice colors, interesting variety of fabrics, great fit. But from the front it looks like the dress is trying to morph into several other dresses and the result is an ocular migraine. Amy knows this too because it was very hard to find a full front photo of the dress. She is turned sideways in most of them.

Arrival is getting excellent reviews and might bring Amy a sixth Oscar nomination. Or maybe a seventh because she’ll get her sixth for Nocturnal Animals – seriously she is such a great actress. She always turns in an impressive performance, whether it is a fun film like Enchanted, a sexy film like American Hustle or a quiet but powerful drama like Junebug. Amy is usually singled out in any film she’s in. The irony is, it took changing her hair to make her stand out. During her TimesTalk on Wednesday, Amy said her career took off after she dyed her blonde hair red when she was cast on Rob Lowe’s Dr. Vegas T.V. show in 2004.

Amy Adams, the five-time Academy Award-nominated star of stage and screen, owes her acting career to being a redhead.

The actress spoke at the New York Times-hosted TimesTalk event on Wednesday, where she revealed that changing her hair color from strawberry blonde to red dramatically influenced her chances of getting cast in films.

“Based on roles that I was getting, called in for, people were responding to certain types of characters with me as a blonde and the minute I went red, it was quirky and fun instead of flirtatious and dumb,” Adams, 42, revealed.

“It was great, I liked that. But in all seriousness, it’s just hair color. It was really fascinating to see just one element of yourself change people’s perception and that became a very powerful tool for me even in my acting,” the mother of one continued.

“If you can change one very small thing and create an entirely different perception to the outside world based on one thing, and that was actually an important lesson for me to learn, I didn’t quite get that before then,” she said.

“It really changed things up. People began to see me in a different way, for different roles” Adams continued, adding, “I don’t know if I can give credit to just the hair color, but maybe it did help people see me past blonde.”

[From People]

Amy has talked about how changing her hair color affected her career before. I don’t think it’s just a talking point for her, though, I think the psychology behind it genuinely fascinates her. I read her comments as she is grateful that her hair color opened some new doors to her but it was bittersweet to realize how much people rely on appearance to judge someone. She’s not wrong, though, is she? I form opinions on characters based on certain stereotypes when watching movies. I wonder how many of those assumptions bled off-screen within the industry, though? I think that’s what Amy is really trying to say. And I love that she used that to layer her characters. She is very smart with her portrayals; it’s not always obvious why your love her performance so much.

Amy told Graham Norton that they are developing Disenchanted, the sequel to Enchanted. I have no idea where the sequel will go but I’ll still go see it. I’m a sucker for fairy tales and Amy. I just realized I never showed my kids Enchanted. I wanted them to be familiar with the Disney films being parodied before they saw it. Guess what I am doing tonight???

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