Deciding that she was not gifted enough to be a professional ballerina, she entered musical theater, which she found was “much better suited to personality”. There, she was spotted by a Minneapolis dinner theater director, Michael Brindisi, in 1995. She then appeared in Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can as Brenda Strong, a candy-striper with whom Frank Abagnale, Jr. During that time, Adams turned 30 and was worried about her film career: “I thought maybe I should move to New York, maybe I should do something else. I was like, you know what, I’m done with being pushed around.” Junebug premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival with Adams winning a Special Jury Prize for her performance. After providing the voice for Polly Purebred in Walt Disney Pictures’ Underdog, Adams starred in Disney’s 2007 big-budget animated/live-action feature film, Enchanted. The film, which co-stars Patrick Dempsey, Idina Menzel, Susan Sarandon and James Marsden, revolves around Giselle, who is forced from her 2D-animated world to real-life New York City. Adams was amongst 300 or so actresses who auditioned for the role of Giselle, but she stood out to director Kevin Lima because her “commitment to the character, her ability to escape into the character’s being without ever judging the character was overwhelming”.
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