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Amy Adams opens up about her just-announced pregnancy, “I’m due in the spring. A lot of my girlfriends are pregnant, so there are a lot of baby showers. Careful ladies, it’s in the water!”

On finding out the sex of the baby, she says, “We’ll probably find out. I thought about waiting and I just don’t think that’s really my personality. I’m impatient, so it’s not about planning a nursery, it’s more about I just want to know. I want to be able to relate in that way. That’s what works for me, but I totally believe in whatever works for the individual.”

Has she set a wedding date with fiancé Darren Le Gallo? “No. I have been working so much. We actually had a date, and then we had to push it because I took a part. I actually had to get permission and I called him and said, ‘We’re actually going to have to push the date.’ So, yeah, now that I have the time off we’ll definitely be planning it.”

Leap Year hits theatres January 8th.

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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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