Amy Adams loves starring in “family films”.

The ‘Enchanted’ actress was delighted to be given the chance to sing and dance on screen in the 2007 movie, and would be more than happy to star in a musical film in the future.

She said, “I love doing family films. They give you so much permission to play. Of gosh, that’s fun. Of course, I adore drama, but on a purely selfish level, nothing compares to the joy that fills my heart when I sing and dance. Everyone I know says, ‘Oh Amy, you should just go and do a musical and be done with it.’ I absolutely love acting, but my characters aren’t usually bursting into song from joy. They’re usually feeling and crying their way.”

Amy can soon be seen in ‘Julie and Julia’, in which she plays Julie Powell, a woman who decided to make all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s ‘Mastering The Art of French Cooking’ and write a blog about the experience.

The 34-year-old star was given cooking lessons before filming, and admits she needed all the help she could get.

She explained to Britain’s Vogue magazine, “I learnt to cook. I didn’t grow up eating fresh food. Not as one of seven kids! But I could have made you something really decent with canned food. We were given cooking classes. All that stuff when you see me cooking - that’s really me. I did bone the duck.”

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In her new movie, Julie & Julia, Amy Adams takes to the kitchen as Julie Powell, a frustrated government employee whose life changes when she vows to cook and blog about all the recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

When Amy signed on for the role, she was not an experienced chef. But she learned: “I learned how to poach an egg, which sounds easier than it is. How to cut a tomato and an onion properly was a big deal. I made lobster thermidor, hollandaise sauce, mayonnaise, trussed chicken. I also learned to make an omelet without using a spatula.”

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Amy is co-starring in this summer’s biggest foodie blockbuster alongside Meryl Streep…
But first, the Oscar-nominated star spills her biggest food secrets to Bon Appétit:

• When eating out with her cast mates during the filming of the movie, Amy’s favorite food was hamburgers with red onion from Peter Luger in Brooklyn. She admits, “I love raw onions—though they’re not so good for your partner.”
• What she keeps in her fridge – “I have a lot of hot sauce. When everything else is gone from the refrigerator, hot sauce always remains.”
• What Amy does for fun: “One of my favorite things to do is cook and have friends over.” Her favorite recipe to cook at home? Brussels sprouts!
• Her idea of a romantic meal – “Anything that my fiancé [actor Darren Le Gallo] cooks—because he doesn’t cook that often.”

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Meryl Streep walked away from her role as über-chef Julia Child in director Nora Ephron’s upcoming Julie & Julia with more than improved cooking skills.

“I gained 15 pounds, I’m still trying to lose it,” Streep, 60, says in the August issue of Ladies’ Home Journal (on newsstands July 14). “It was worth it.”

Her costar Amy Adams, however, didn’t pack on the pounds, but tells the magazine, “I was very grateful that my character wasn’t about her physique … I ate a lot.”

To prepare for her role, Streep was taught how to cook like a master. “Mostly what I learned has to do with equipment and how to use it right,” she says, listing sharpened knives, a good pan and cooking over high heat as essential to making a great dish. “The other thing I learned was, and I’ve been cooking for hundreds of years, that if you have garlic and onions on your fingertips, if you dip your hands in salt and then rinse them in cool water, the smell goes right away.”

Her favorite among Child’s dishes: “Tarragon roast chicken is a foolproof recipe and also something that everybody loves.”

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Amy Adams will star opposite Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in The Fighter, which David O. Russell is directing for Relativity Media and Paramount.

The drama revolves around the life of boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward (Wahlberg) and trainer-brother Dick Eklund (Bale), chronicling their early days on the rough streets of Lowell, Mass., through Eklund’s battle with drugs and Ward’s eventual world championship in London.

Adams will play Charlene, a tough, gritty bartender and former college high-jumper from Massachusetts who ends up dating Mickey.

Melissa Leo also has been cast as Wahlberg and Bale’s mother.

The movie begins shooting next month in Lowell.

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Adams Adams talks about being uncool, why she is putting off wedding plans and how she went from Gap employee to movie star.

ON ATTENDING THIS YEAR’S ACADEMY AWARDS AS A NOMINEE…

“I just was so reflective the whole evening on how I came to be sitting in that room. At one point my fiancé was like, ‘You feel distant.’ And I said, ‘I am! I can’t even talk to you!’ I was there at the Oscars thinking, What if I never left the Gap?”

ON STRIVING TO BE ONE OF THE “COOL” GIRLS IN HIGH-SCHOOL…

“I’d hated school. The people were indifferent toward me, and that’s the worst thing in my mind. We were defined by the clothes we bought at the mall. If I didn’t get things on clearance, I wasn’t getting them. I would make fake Guess jeans by buying a cheaper brand with a triangle label and then cutting it off so you could still see the triangle outline. It’s so sad that I did that! But I really wanted to be one of those girls.”

ON HAVING YET TO PLAN HER WEDDING WITH FIANCE FOR ALMOST A YEAR, ACTOR DARREN LE GALLO…

“I have a reputation as a poor planner, so expectations are pretty low. When I have people to my house for dinner and tell them it’s casual, they think that means don’t wear high heels, but I mean, ‘You’ll be getting your own forks out of the drawer.’”

ON LANDING A JOB AT THE GAP WHEN SHE WAS 18 YEARS OLD…

“[It was] a huge deal, because with the 40-percent-off discount I could finally buy things that weren’t on sale!”

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This movie looks good! Here’s the trailer.