Calling Pharrell: Amy Adams Wants To Be In Your Music Video

AMY ADAMS may have lost out to Cate Blanchett at the Oscars last weekend, but that's not to say she didn't have a great night.
"I danced with Pharrell - I love him," she told us. "I did eight counts, I took it very seriously. I was sent a video afterwards and it was pretty good. I'd love to get a full dance in at some point, and I've always wanted to be in a music video..."
Adams was nominated for her role as the long-term mistress of a conman in American Hustle - an entertaining comedy-drama set in the Seventies, serving up glittering costumes, towering beehives and perma-tanned skin and winning Best Hair and Make-up at this year's BAFTAs. Adams wears a series of plunging dresses that have become quite a talking point among audiences.

"I really didn't expect [that kind of attention]," she said. "But those dresses were used as a manipulation tool for my character - they were supposed to distract the men around her, and that's exactly what happened for audiences. They were distracted, so it worked. Job done."

Amid being held in a prison cell and confronted with monsters, one of Adams's most memorable scenes is the one in which she and her co-star, Jennifer Lawrence, share an uncomfortable and brief kiss.
"She definitely kissed me," laughed Adams. "I didn't get to kiss her back, so I can't comment on her technique. It was very messy though; there was a lot of lip gloss."
In terms of her enjoyment of making red-carpet appearances, she finds that experience has made them much easier. Adams is currently the face of Lacoste fragrance.
"I've relaxed a bit more over time," she said. "Each moment is just a moment, and I've learned to enjoy it just for that. In the spectrum of everything going on in the world, it's not that important. I don't like that it's become a sport, and that every aspect of you is picked apart, but I like working with designers to create a look. By the end of the process, you feel like an extension of their creation, so you step onto the red carpet thinking that, rather than it being all about you."
So how does she pick her red carpet gowns? She cites Antonio Berardi, Roland Mouret and Victoria Beckham as some of her favourite labels.
"There are certain designers who I refer to as zip ons, designers who I have zipped on many times," she said. "I like to feel supported and all those designers I just mentioned have some internal structure that accentuates, rather than squishes. I want something that makes me feel womanly."