TEN Gossip

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 08:29 PM PST

Rachel McAdams covers the February 2012 issue of Glamour magazine. Or you can see her in theaters in Sherlock Holmes: Game Of Shadows. She was good in that movie too. I won’t give away what happens to her though. Here are the highlights of the interview:

On whether she gets involved in creating her characters’ looks: “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!’”

On whether playing serious or playing silly is more difficult: “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.”

On whether she worked at McDonald’s: “Yeah, for a good three years. My sister and brother worked there. My sister was my manager! It was a great place to work, but I had a little bit of an OCD thing with hand washing and just didn’t have time. They were like, “Hey, the drive-through’s backing up. Stop washing your hands!” I was not a great employee; I broke the orange juice machine one day.”

On her all-time favorite romantic movie: “Just one?! In the Mood for Love, Giant, Days of Heaven and the Russian film Burnt by the Sun. I can’t choose just one.”

On crushes she’s had on actors: “I loved soap operas when I was young, so Antonio Sabato Jr. and Maurice Benard from General Hospital. And who could forget Josh Brolin in The Goonies?”

On what she’d do if she wasn’t acting? “I wouldn’t mind running a restaurant. I’m not an amazing cook, but I can follow a recipe.”

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Dianna Agron Covers NYLON

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 07:58 PM PST

I have been going Glee crazy lately so I thought I would start the New Year with Dianna Agron. She is the cover girl for the December 2011/January 2o12 issue of Nylon magazine. Here are highlights from the interview:

On comparisons to her character, Quinn: "Especially in the beginning, [reporters] really wanted us to be like our characters, to simplify things. I was playing a well put-together, popular character, and they were trying to push me into it, like that had been my entire life. And the whole time, my teenage self was crying at that."

On Christmas shopping: "I realized that if I don't do Christmas early, I don't give people meaningful gifts. I'm maybe halfway done with my Christmas shopping, which makes me feel over-prepared and happy at the same time."

On eventually saying goodbye to her Glee co-stars: "The first days of not being in the company of those amazing people, I'm going to cry my eyes out. We're taking it day by day."

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