Amy Adams on Playing Lois Lane in Service of Story, Not Character in the DCEU
Speaking with Variety, Amy Adams addressed the fact that story comes first in superhero franchises, where the character she played comes second. That, she explains, can be a tough pill to swallow.
"That’s the tricky thing with Lois Lane that I find," says Adams. I love playing her, I love everyone I work with, but sometimes it’s tricky because I feel she’s in service of the story instead of the story serving a character. That can be tricky: When you show up and you really want to retain a character and you have to serve the story. Does that make sense? In a perfect universe, they all work together. I always want to service the story, but I want to feel supported in the character as well."
Andrew Garfield sat in the interview as well, and he referred to his experience as Spider-Man when describing it as somewhat heartbreaking.
"There’s something that happened with that experience for me where story and character were not actually top of the priority list, ultimately, and I found that really, really tricky.
"I signed up to serve the story and to serve this incredible character I’d been dressing as since I was 3. And then it gets compromised, and it breaks my heart. I got heartbroken a little bit."
"I’ve signed on to things for one reason, and they’ve turned into something else, and it’s always a little heartbreaking because you have to let go of that ideal," said Adams. "It’s kind of part of growing up — you have to mature through that."
Source: Comicbook
