Amy Adams Enjoys Being A Redhead | Late Night with Conan O’Brien

You look gorgeous as always. And you've got the redhead look going a little bit here. Redhead. Yeah. It's terrible. I've never tried that for real on a woman. What's it like? Do you, is there any difference? Do you like being a redhead? Because normally you're blonde. I'm a natural blonde, but blondes don't get treated very well in our society. So I enjoy being a redhead much more. You're having a better experience with it with an iPad. I get punched in the head a lot. But do you like it? Did you, do you notice a difference? I mean, you know, some people think that, that redheads are, you know, we're fiery. And do you get people? Aren't we? No, I am not a fiery redhead. You used to be, you know, as a blonde, if I had something I wanted to say, people are like, oh, she's high-maintenance kind of a, you know, but as, as a redhead, you get it. She's a firecracker. She is, you know, she's feisty. So you, you, blondes people, maybe it's easier for them to dismiss a blonde, but if you're a redhead, they think you got spunk. You got spunk, baby. I don't get that either. We do have in common, I have very, very pale skin and you seem to have the almost, yours is, it's beautiful, absolutely gorgeous, but almost translucent. I can see your skeleton. My sister calls it fish belly blue. That's not nice. No, it's, no, but it's true. But fish belly blue goes well with the red. Let me tell you. It does, it's much better than with the blonde. So did you not like your, growing up, because I always find when I was a kid, I mean, I was a redhead and very pale and I hated the way I looked. Do you, did you, growing up with the pale skin, was that fun for you or? I mean, I didn't want to be pale. I've accepted it. I didn't do very well. You learned slowly to accept it. I had no choice. I mean, my skin repels the sun. I literally, I tried to lay out once in Italy without sunscreen for like 20 minutes at four o'clock in the afternoon and I got sun poisoning. I woke up with a rash all over, so. Yes, yes. This is, this is turning me on. This was my whole experience growing up was sun for five minutes. You know, my, my mom made me wear like an old lady's big hat. Exactly. And forget going to the beach in bikinis. Like. I could never wear a bikini. No. Exactly. I got yelled at at a water park in Georgia. Somebody yelled at me to get a tan. And I don't know if you've been to water parks in Georgia, but this man was not much to look at in a swimsuit. And someone yelled at you, hey, get a tan. Yes, sir. That's terrible. It was horrible. Yeah. What did you do? Did you say something really cool back to him? No, I didn't actually. I think I was upset. Quietly upset. I wanted to, like, see ya, you know, something. Hey, well, I'm going to look really good someday and you'll still be fat, you know. That's good. You should have said that. I think I said that to my sister under, you know, the tears. You wrote it later on. Yeah, in my memoir. That's what I would do. I would, I would go later and write that in my room. Oh, that's what I will say next time. Exactly. To those cruel bullies. Exactly. I have to talk about something again that affects my life. I have a daughter who saw Enchanted when she was, I want to say three. She saw it when she was three years old and absolutely her, she just couldn't believe. She just loved the movie and she loved you in the movie and of course believed it all. And because so much of it happens in Central Park and we live near Central Park, she then would say to me, take me to Central Park. I want to go find the princess from Enchanted. So she's always looking for you in Central Park. We should plan that someday. Yeah. You should charge people like $50,000. What's it worth? I would only charge you that much. Yeah, yeah. Thank you, you're so nice. I'd do it for free, but for you, 50,000. Let's have it. But yeah, no, it's been interesting because kids sometimes recognize me, their parents really do. And I'm always like, oh no, no, no, I'm in sweats. I look, you're going to ruin her whole idea of princesses. And I met these kids at an airport and I had that experience. I think she must've been three. And they said, do you know who this is? It's Giselle. And she, well, that's not Giselle. Oh really? She got upset? I was horrified. I had to actually, I bent down to her level and I had to be like, you know, I'm in disguise. That's so nice of you though. That's really great. She must've loved that. She, well, her eyes, she sort of understood. Right. Once I was like, you know how I made this out of, you know, I made this out of my sofa, these sweats. They're made out of my, you know. That's so great. Yeah, it was good. But an airport's such a, not a good place. Why are they making Giselle take off her belt? It's security. Exactly. Metal detector around her. And now they let paparazzi in. They can take pictures of you, sort of like with your striped socks under your jeans. You know, it's very, I'm thinking about it. Yeah, that's, that's a, especially. Walking barefoot. Yes, yes. They take shots of anything out there, but that's so nice that you, that you do that. Well, I love that. I love that little girls like this movie. And, and, you know. Well, you know what's so funny? What I'll sometimes, when I'm walking around, people will sometimes, you know, the adult will recognize me and then they'll get their four-year-old and go, do you know who this is? This is Conan O'Brien. Yes. Look, I'm on at 1235 at night. We get a V for violence, you know. I know, I know. The kid's always, I don't care on such a profound level. It's terrible. Yeah, but it's been fun to do a film that affects kids in a positive way. I want to ask you something. You used to work at The Gap. And I want to ask you about that because I'm always, I'm personally fascinated by people that are so talented, they've become such big stars. But just a few years ago, you know, like a lot of people were working a job nine to five. How did you like working at The Gap? I liked it all right. I have to say at the time, I'm one of those personalities, I'll try to make the best of whatever situation. So I was the greeter. And so I was always like, hey, check out our t-shirts. Hey, we carry men's underwear now. You know, I would think of anything, like anything I could think to say. So your job was to just start a conversation. Is that the job of the greeter? Yes, there is. I don't, I haven't been there for a while. I don't know if any of you guys have worked at The Gap, but there's The Gap app, which is greet, approach, product information, add-on, which is that thing, you know, when you're in the dressing room, they're like, hey, you know, we look great with those jeans. Is this sweater? Oh my God. I always think, I always think the girl just thought of that. They're always getting me to buy like a poncho to go with the socks. I know, I'm sure like The Gap people will be outside to whisk me away as I walk out of your show. I've revealed the secret. We must remove the chip from her brain. She's proved troublesome. Yes, yes, so be nice to them when they, that's their job. Their managers are making them add the belt, just add-on, and then it's clothes, and then, huh, I don't know what to wear. Clothes means make sure you get the sale. That's why they grab on to your ankles when you try and leave the store. They're hitting you. Exactly. All right. I forget what the T is. There's a T in there, too? Well, act, yeah. Oh. For me, it's, yeah. I should learn to read and to spell. I wanna talk about Doubt. You're in this movie with Meryl Streep. It's gotta be a dream come true, and I know you're also working with her in another movie as well that hasn't come out yet. Julie and Juliet. It comes out in August, but I shot it directly after Doubt, and that was fun. It involves, we cook a lot, and I'm- It's about cooking, yeah. Yeah, I cook my way through the Julia Child cookbook. Cool. Did you learn to cook anything? Do you learn amazing skills? I did. I learned how to poach an egg and to make omelets without a spatula, and I learned how to bone a duck. Okay. Let's talk about Doubt. I play a nun. Yeah, you play a nun in Doubt, and you really wanted this part. Please, settle down. You people sicken me. Maybe I should not tell them about my duck boning. No, no, no, no, no, no. That doesn't go with the nun.