By Fred Topel | Image property of Sony Pictures Classics.
Rachel McAdams has sported a different look in just about every movie she's done. In Married Life, a period drama set in the 1940s, she has a platinum blonde 'do like the ultimate movie vamp. Such a dye job nearly destroyed her.
Rachel McAdams Talks Married Life
"It’s intense," she joked. "It was a really fun color. It was fun to be platinum. I think we forget, because so many photographs are in black and white, that women were very risqué and, at the time, it was very usual to be that blonde."
They also lightened her skin with pale makeup. "Yeah, very, very light. I don’t go out in the sun that much but that was definitely even light for me. I liked the idea that she was on the verge of slipping away, of letting herself just disappear, a little bit ghostly and then Pierce [Brosnan] sort of brings the color back for her and her world gets revved up again."
After two enormously successful years with films like Mean Girls, The Notebook, Wedding Crashers, Red Eye and The Family Stone, McAdams took a year off. Married Life is her first film in a new string of many.
Married Life
Married Life
Married Life
"It’s been really good, actually. I’ve had a little bit of time off to sort of regroup but, after having taken a year off, I found that I was so ready and I have to say I was very inspired after I did Married Life Working with [director] Ira [Sachs], I had such a great experience. I was inspired to keep going. It was so positive and it gave me energy rather than depleting me. Some films can be very depleting, which is also good. It means you’re giving a lot of yourself but this one really filled me up and prepared me for more."
The break almost ensured that she would not burn out in the media, and proved personally rewarding too. "I had just been working quite literally, back to back without any breaks in between and just wanted to just relax and have a life. You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think ‘oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films’ and then three months go by and all you did was [film]."
Married Life opens to theaters on March 7th.
For the trailer, poster, more interviews and additional movie info, go to the Married Life Movie Page.
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