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First Call to Amy Adams: White House Bathroom
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Producers had encouraged Sean to reach out to Amy about a potential project. He called. She picked up — and immediately told him she was in the White House bathroom and would have to call him back. Amy confirms the story: she was at the White House for a Julie and Julia event and ducked into the bathroom when her phone rang. Sean points out that this is both the first and last time they ever spoke before today, which Amy plays along with, joking that she's been 'just hanging out, having a kid' since. Will is scandalized. It's one of the episode's funniest exchanges, a perfect collision of Hollywood mundanity and genuine surrealism.
Sean Hayes called Amy Adams for the first time to discuss a project, and she picked up from the White House bathroom during a Julie and Julia promotional visit. It remains both the most surreal and shortest first conversation they ever had.
The first time Sean Hayes called Amy Adams, she answered from the White House bathroom during a visit related to the film Julie and Julia.
