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Rachel McAdams is just so cool. When I meet the 33-year-old actress for tea at a London hotel, she’s wearing a loose sweatshirt, and her hair, in a dozen tiny buns, makes her look kind of adorably crazy. “Oh, this is just how I dry my hair!” she says, laughing, without the least bit of self-consciousness. And that easy charm is trademark low-key McAdams: She does not frequent parties sponsored by giant fashion houses. She has no perfume deal. She still lives in Toronto in the same house she bought after a hilarious turn in Mean Girls years ago. Yes, she’s dated high-profile actors like Josh Lucas, Ryan Gosling and, currently, her Midnight in Paris costar Michael Sheen (also known as Aro in The Twilight Saga). But the only extracurricular scene McAdams has made recently was on the first day of Occupy Toronto, where she showed up to check the protests out and “educate myself.” Today we’re here to discuss McAdams’ newest movie, The Vow, in which she plays an amnesiac whose husband (Channing Tatum) tries to woo her back. It’s her most serious love story since The Notebook with Gosling, and she plays the role with the same likability that won us over the first time around. Listen in!
GLAMOUR: OK, wait, how many buns do you have there? It looks like 12.
RACHEL MCADAMS: This is not meant for public viewing! This is just how I dry my hair. All my friends make fun of me and call me Helga or Heidi.
GLAMOUR: You’ve had some other fancy hairdos, like those pink streaks years before Nicki Minaj.
RACHEL MCADAMS: I always wanted pink hair. I wanted to do my whole head, but my hairstylist, Robert, was like, “How about we start small?” I absolutely loved it. I still think about doing blue at some point, but I don’t like to change my hair before I’m about to do [a film]—you never know what that character’s going to be.
GLAMOUR: Do you get very involved in creating your characters’ looks?
RACHEL MCADAMS: Yeah, I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It’s preferable when it’s not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can’t afford these Christian Louboutins. [The stylist] will say, “No one will notice.” And I’m like, “Everyone knows that red-bottom shoe!”
GLAMOUR: You were a competitive figure skater. Was this before skating got all classy?
RACHEL MCADAMS: I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eyeshadow up our eyebrows, and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.
GLAMOUR: What’s harder for you, playing serious or playing silly?
RACHEL MCADAMS: I think playing silly. I’m very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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