Amy Adams Rejected a Hug from Brad Pitt

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Amy Adams talks about playing Lynne Cheney in her new movie Vice, working with Christian Bale, and she reveals why she is the first woman in history to reject a hug from Brad Pitt.
Let me go see if I can see if everything's okay over there.
Great to see you both.
Love to the girls.
Love to Barbara.
Will do.
That's his son.
Oh crap.
George W. Blacksheep of the family.
Very boring.
Too much unconditional love there.
Can you feel it Dick?
Half the room wants to be us.
The other half fears us.
I know George is next in line.
After that, who knows?
That is Amy Adams and Christian Chaney and Vice, which I enjoyed.
I really, I loved hearing that.
Do you think Lynne Chaney will watch this movie?
Do you have any inkling?
Has anybody contacted you?
Nobody has contacted me.
I hope she watches it.
I do too.
I'd be open to a conversation with her about it.
Yeah.
I feel like she would, I don't know.
I don't think she'd be upset by it.
Maybe she'd say, oh I didn't do that or I didn't do this.
Exactly.
I think I say, I take the Lord's name in vain once.
I think she'd probably have a problem with that.
I see.
That's not something that.
I don't think she would do that.
That she would necessarily.
Or she'd be happy that I exposed if she did.
I see.
Yeah.
I kind of go into her.
I'm like, no, no, no.
As far as offenses go, that one seems pretty light.
But boy, she really kind of pushed that.
You never really expect that because we see Dick Chaney as this behind, you know,
this kind of Machiavellian character.
No, she was a really strong woman and she's,
I didn't know anything about her.
She has a PhD.
She's written or co-written like 29 books.
She's very accomplished.
How many movies have you and Christian Bale done together now?
This is our third.
Third.
Yeah.
He is like a totally, he looks totally different appearance wise in each one of them.
He transforms in a way that is just almost frightening.
Yeah.
He's so committed.
It's really impressive.
He has an amazing discipline and work ethic.
I admire him.
You're going, oh my God, he's just like Dick Chaney.
It's almost distracting how much like Dick Chaney he is.
He's more Dick Chaney than Dick Chaney.
Yeah.
He's got a little extra dick in him.
Exactly.
Yeah.
That's good.
The supporting cast is terrific.
Unbelievable.
And your producer, well, the director, Adam McKay did a great job with this movie.
His partner is Will Ferrell.
He's a producer on the movie.
And Brad Pitt is a producer on the movie.
He is.
We had a whole, an amazing group of producers.
Did Brad Pitt do any actual producing on the movie?
Well, yes, he came to set one day.
And the reason I knew he was there is because I was like, oh, there's, I had been in makeup.
I play Lynn up till 70.
So I was in 70 year old Lynn makeup, which is a lot of wrinkles and prosthetics and a
suit that makes me look quite a bit heavier.
And I was wondering why all the girls were, like, had lip gloss and were skipping to set.
And so I walk onto set.
Oh, and I'd just been diagnosed with pink eye.
Oh, great.
True story.
So I'm walking onto set, like, what's everyone so happy about, you know?
And all of a sudden, I see Brad Pitt.
And I'm like, like, I've seen him before.
But every time you see him, it's sort of like, you're thinking it's like a river runs through
it.
Like, you know, I think he's going to, like, move in slow motion.
And then you imagine yourself looking really pretty and like a white nightgown.
But that wasn't the case.
I was in my fat suit with pink eye.
And he was so sweet.
And he's like, oh, it's so good to see you.
And he went to give me a hug.
And I was like, oh, it's happening.
And then I realized I can't hug him.
I have pink eye.
So I was like, no, no.
And in that moment, I became the first woman in history to reject a hug from Brad Pitt.
But very considerate of you.
A lot of people, I think, would give him the pink.
I did.
Luckily, he was very gracious.
I was like, I'm contagious.
I'm pink eye.
Well.
So conjunctivitis itself.
I hope if you guys win and produce a category, he remembers that in the speech because it's
exceptionally contagious.
Thank you for not giving him pink eye.
I mean, yeah.
I hope he does, too, actually.
I'd give him herpes if I had the chance.
I really would.
Well, it's great to see you.
The movie's great.
It's called Vice.
It opens Christmas Day.
Amy Adams, everybody.
