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    A state of busyness Even when "Enchanted" opened to shimmering acclaim, Adams says she was so embedded in rehearsals for "Doubt," the forthcoming film version of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play, in which she co-stars with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, that she barely noticed the reaction. "The only way I was able to sort of get any kind of an honest reaction to 'Enchanted' was with this class of kids I was working with in 'Doubt.' [Adams plays a nun teaching in a mid-1960s New York parochial school.] And most of them knew me from playing Giselle in 'Enchanted,' and I was picking up their excitement and enthusiasm, which is so much more valid than, you know, all the celebrity hype." Adams seems to have kept her head down in a perpetual state of busyness since she was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar two years ago for playing a winsome Carolina naif in "Junebug." Full Article at Newsday
    The only way I was able to sort of get any kind of an honest reaction to 'Enchanted' was with this class of kids I was working with in 'Doubt.' [Adams plays a nun teaching in a mid-1960s New York parochial school.] And most of them knew me from playing Giselle in 'Enchanted,' and I was picking up their excitement and enthusiasm, which is so much more valid than, you know, all the celebrity hype.
    SOURCE: Newsday 21 months ago