Amy Adams on Christmas & Golden Globe Nominations

Good to see you. Good night. You'll be loved. How are you? Good. Thank you. I'm doing really well. How old is your daughter? She's eight. She's eight years old. Yeah. Is there an elf on your shelf at home? We do. You have it? Yeah. And what are your thoughts on it? You know, her name is Sprite. The elf. Ours is Fresca. Fresca. You're dressing. Yeah. And, no, my daughter likes to watch me on the shows. Oh, like on talk shows. On YouTube. Yeah. Okay. Got it. A friend of ours introduced her to that idea. I see. And so now she asked me to it, which is weird, but I let her. Have her not watch the monologue then. I'm not going to. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So Sprite, but Sprite's amazing. You love Sprite. I love Sprite. She is now wearing an ice skating outfit. And she is currently flown up to an impossibly high window. We're not sure how she got there, so. And Sprite moves around every night as she is supposed to? No, I think sometimes Sprite, like the other night it was raining and we thought it was maybe she didn't want to go out in the rain. We had that happen at our house. That very same thing happened at our house. I know. Yeah, it was raining and then, yeah, I had to explain to our daughter that it had nothing to do with mommy and daddy being forgetful, that the rain was really the problem. That the rain. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah, the rain will affect those things. It's true. And do you feel she's getting good reports to Santa? Yeah, you know, I'm lucky. My daughter's really well behaved just as normal. She started to get really sassy, though, and kind of, I don't know where she gets it. Like this morning, I was kind of giving her a hard time about something and she held up her cereal in her spoon and she goes, I've got cereal, mom, and I'm not afraid to use it. And I was like, are we talking like, I kind of wanted to tempt her, because I really wanted to know, are we talking like a spoonful of cereal, are we talking a faceful? Or are you going to get the bowl on your head? A bowl on my head? Yeah, well, if the elf would have seen that. I wanted to kind of push her towards it. It would fall over. I know, exactly. Well, that's cute. That's very cute. Yeah, and so Christmas is obviously a big deal, I would assume, in your family as well. Will you spend it at home or will you be somewhere? I will be home. You will be at home. And do you do all the things? Do you make a roast or a ham or any of that stuff? Um, usually I do. I don't know this year, because we're, it's just, just us. Have you ever had to work on Christmas Day? I have. You have? I have. I used to work in theater and I worked at a dinner theater and we would work on. I wanted to ask you about that, because I happen to have an advertisement. This is something someone posted on Instagram. There's the Country Dinner Playhouse. What year was this, do you know? Ninety-five. Yeah. And there you are. Oh, yeah. A little biography that ends with, like, the bottom is, she thanks those who support her. You know who you are. Sounds like a passive-aggressive Facebook post. It sounds kind of like the serial threat, in a way, you know? Exactly. And what is it like doing dinner theater? Are people eating while you're acting? Sometimes they are. Uh-huh. It's fun. I loved it, I have to say. Really? But as far as, like, a lot of people have questions about, sort of, the food element of it and, sort of, are they eating while you're doing it? Yeah. And usually you're served first, but occasionally food will find its way. Sometimes to the stage. Oh, to the stage. Yeah. There was a potato on the stage. It was, like, still in the foil, too, so, like, if you didn't want your potato, there I think that's a sign. I think it's like, like, in Detroit at the Red Wings games, the hockey fans will throw octopus onto the ice. I think a baked potato on a stage means they loved your performance. They loved... I'll take it, yeah. What do you do when there's a potato on the stage? There are some things you can do. I don't remember what happened with that particular baked potato, but typically, if you are a dancer or one of the background artists, which I was, you will find a way on your path, like, during the opening song, like, our state fair is a great state fair, you know, that kind of thing. You're a very elegant potato woman. Yeah. I still got it. Yeah, you do. I still got it. Do you ever talk to those... Although I might have pulled some... Any of those people that you worked with? Yeah. I do. They're wonderful. It must be crazy. Well, you're nominated. Congratulations on your three Golden Globe nominations. I would be willing to bet that those people you worked with take a lot of pride in that. They're like, yeah, I acted with Amy and, you know, people were eating, but now she's got three Golden Globe nominations. No, I owe them a lot, actually. Do you? I do. They kind of formed a family for me and gave me a lot of confidence in myself. They were the ones that really encouraged me to move out to L.A. and try it if I wanted to, and I owe a lot to them. When you're nominated three times, do you get three pairs of tickets to the Globes? That's what my mom wants to know. Right. Oh, yeah, you can invite the old dinner theater crew to come. Because the Golden Globes is kind of like dinner theater, except it's more like cocktail theater. Yeah, there is no dinner, which is why the cocktails are so effective, I think. Yeah, there's no dinner, and everyone's drinking. It's like breadstick theater, you know, and you're like, there's always the breadsticks, right? Do you... Will you smuggle a potato in, just for old time's sake? I'll just put it on the stage. Do you drink knowing that you might have to go up and accept an award? I mean, I will have a glass of champagne. I try... Yes, I try not to drink too much, but I never think I'm going to win. One time I did have not too much, but two, and I pushed it away going, ooh, I should not do that, and then they were like, Amy Adams, and I was like, I'm that girl. But I wasn't. But I was afraid that I was, you know? Well, I saw Vice. Which makes me sound like I was. And it is... Yeah. Well, listen, you have to be ready. Yeah. Vice is a great movie. We're going to see a clip from that when we come back. Amy Adams is here with us. We'll be right back.