Amy Adams leaps to Ireland!
Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by Cliona in Labels: Amy Adams, Anand Tucker, Films, Ireland, Leap Year, Mathew Goode, Movies, Review
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The Ward Word is lucky enough to bring you an exclusive from the set of next year's must-see Romantic Comedy. And by exclusive we mean that we hung around in trench coats and dark glasses long enough to get the above gist of the film and few more insights!
The atypical romcom is being shot in multiple locations around Ireland, including Galway, Dublin and Wexford. When we visited the film production at Dublin Castle we were astonished at the lengths they had gone to to create the set. The entire façade in the courtyard was clad with polystyrene bricks to give the stately building a more homely appearance; there was a winter garden complete with leafless plastic trees and six inches of snow and even an ancient, Father Ted-esque telefón box had been fashioned from some plywood for the occasion.
Given the size of the production we can only hope that director Anand Tucker (Shop Girl) will do our lovely country justice, but I'd expect plenty of the hackneyed Irish stereotypes that Hollywood loves to throw at us instead. Prepare yourself also to recoil in horror from cringeworthy Irish accents, more specifically from the male lead Mathew Goode. Fresh off the set of Watchmen, Goode must have limited his research for the role to renting Intermission and The Commitments, whilst in between takes he reverted to the AbFab sweetie darlingness of his toffish heritage!
In the flesh Amy Adams seemed to be just as sweet and nice as all of her previous characters have been, however, one extra overheard the starlet bad mouth Irish Dental standards, of all things! Nonetheless, she managed to combine one part Disney princess with two parts nun to charm nearly all of the extras who swooned at her smile and luscious strawberry locks.
So keep an eye out for your fellow students when 'Leap Year' is released next year, and hold back the tears and the laughs as Hollywood once again churns out another Irish clichéd bit of fun!