Getting to sit down for an interview with "Morning Glory" star Rachel McAdams would be a nerve-wracking moment in any entertainment reporter's career. What if you stutter? Say the wrong thing? Become so overwhelmingly star-struck that you spontaneously combust, but not before vomiting all over your shoes?!
But for MTV's Josh Horowitz, sitting down for this one-on-one chat with the actress had him worried about something else: stamina.
"If you have 10 percent of your character's spirit or attitude, then I feel like I'm going to be exhausted by the end of the interview," he joked, as Rachel settled in to talk about her role in the upcoming film.
"I'll try to stay in my seat!" she replied with a laugh.
Of course, we know that Rachel has great energy as an actress—having seen her play everything from a feisty romantic lead in "The Notebook" to a backstabbing megabitch in "Mean Girls." But does she have anything in common with her "Morning Glory" character's professional drive and gangbuster attitude?
Not really. "I don't think I'm quite as high-strung—I hope I'm not!—as Becky is," she confessed. "She's a go-getter. I don't think I have [that] as much."
But that doesn't mean she never gets passionate about her work; quite the opposite, as she tells us that the thrill of in-the-moment acting is the thing that really lights her inner fire.
"I love getting in there and being really physical," Rachel explains. "When it started to look like she [Becky] was going to be fairly physical, Roger"—that's director Roger Mitchell—"was asking me to run around New York in high heels. I love that stuff. So yeah, that's what I have that for. I just don't manifest it the same way!"
Are you raring to see Rachel playing a frazzled producer?
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