Amy Adams said that after Enchanted's box office success, she finally felt financially secure as an actress, even though she'd already received an Oscar nomination before it.
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Amy recalls going to early auditions in full character costume while other actresses arrived looking effortlessly beautiful and composed. She hadn't yet figured out that showing up too obviously 'wanting it' works against you — what she calls the code of neutrality. The realization came late, and cost her some early roles. The conversation then shifts to when she first felt financially secure. She says it wasn't after her first Oscar nomination — that felt like a singular, unrepeatable miracle. Security came with Enchanted, both because of its box office and because it was, uniquely, the one role she'd read and told her husband: 'I don't know who else they're going to get for this.' She's not a competitive person and would re-cast herself out of almost every other role she's had. But Enchanted was different.
Amy Adams had already received an Academy Award nomination before Enchanted, but that earlier recognition felt like a one-off. Reading the Enchanted script was the first time she told her husband, 'I don't know who else they'd get for this.' That certainty — and the film's box office — was the moment her career felt real.
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