Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
#1Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:01pm
According to The Public's twitter.
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#2Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:03pmWhat fun! She's a pretty big name, so does this mean we can expect the Witch and the Baker to also be film stars (just to keep it all balanced and stuff?)
#2Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:04pmI predict that this will be their only name. She'll probably be very good.
#3Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:06pmPretty great choice, I'd say, for going the star route.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#6Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:24pm
Good "audition" for her should a film version ever actually get made...
#7Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:29pm
As much as I love her, I just can't imagine her in the role.
It's the hardest to pull off in the entire show so I'm anxious to see how she does.
#8Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:31pmI like it.
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#11Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:43pmIn her defense, Adams has proved she can be more than just the Cinderella type - her performance in THE FIGHTER was pretty ballsy. I think she's likely more versatile than she's always given credit
#12Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:45pmMeh. Better have a great Witch or I ain't waiting on line for ten hours.
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#13Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:51pm
Oh...I think she'll be delightful! She's got a dark streak in her that was in evidence in PSYCHO BEACH PARTY.
Plus...I kinda like the idea of the Baker's Wife and Cinderally being two sides of the same coin.
#14Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:51pmI'd really like to see Josh Radnor as the Baker.
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#16Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:57pm
I'd really like to see Josh Radnor as the Baker.
Me too, but it's not possible given his shooting schedule.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#17Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 1:59pm
Maybe it's just me, but I can't see it. "If you know what you want then you go and you find it and you GET it." Yeah. Nope. Can't see it.
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Updated On: 4/3/12 at 01:59 PM
#18Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 2:01pm
The line is "get it," actually.
And you obviously didn't see THE FIGHTER. Completely believable as a scrappy, hard-edged, headstrong woman.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#19Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 2:04pm
Oh, whatever. I've been in a cubicle for four hours doing data entry. My mind is going.
And actually, I did see THE FIGHTER. And thought she was miscast.
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#20Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 2:07pm
Edited my post. You're right, it's "get it".
I think she'd be wonderful as Cinderella. And she may be wonderful as The Baker's Wife if they pair her with the proper Baker. My concern is that she won't be strong enough to the right guy. But if it's Euan as rumor has said, I think she'd be a fine fit.
Though I do think her and Jessi Mueller should switch.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
Updated On: 4/3/12 at 02:07 PM
#21Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 2:08pmI wasn't trying to be bitchy. "Get it" and "take it" have different connotations and I felt it was a case where accuracy was needed--especially since you emphasized the TAKE.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#22Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 2:08pm
She was great in The Fighter, and I'll bet she'll be great in this. I agree completely about her versatility.
She is racking up quite a resume, and I really like the diversity of roles.
EDIT: Now just get Catherine Zeta-Jones for the Witch ...
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#23Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 2:10pm
I know you weren't. All is well. I'm in cubicle hell, so I'm being a little snarky. Sorry. You're very right that it changes the meaning.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
Updated On: 4/3/12 at 02:10 PM
#24Amy Adams to play The Baker's Wife
Posted: 4/3/12 at 2:11pm
No worries. 
We'll agree to disagree on Adams.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
