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Amy's Performing Origins: Army Dad's One-Man Band
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Will asks where Amy's performing instinct came from, and she points directly to her father: an Army soldier who had a one-man band with synthesizers and a foot pedal instrument (Amy likens it to the piano from Goonies, played with fancy socks), performing at bars while the family watched. The hosts riff on the image — Jason: 'Kind of like Big'; Will: 'Like if Villeneuve directed Goonies and Big.' Amy says she was drawn to performing but was also profoundly shy, trained mostly in ballet, and suffered from paralyzing stage fright that she still has at 51. Her original plan, she reveals, was emergency medicine — she was a math-challenged kid who thought becoming a doctor was her calling. Performing was what happened when that plan fell apart.
Amy Adams grew up moving with an Army dad who moonlit as a foot-synthesizer one-man band in Colorado bars and pizza joints. She was so shy and had such paralyzing stage fright as a musical theater kid that she considered becoming an ER doctor instead. Performing wasn't a plan — it was a fall-back from math.
Amy Adams said she has suffered from paralyzing stage fright since childhood and still does at 51, but forces herself to perform anyway.
