Rachel McAdams is the wife in The Time Traveler's Wife. She has to wait when her husband disappears at random for indeterminate periods of time. At least she gets visits from him as a kid, and from his younger self after they’re married.
Rachel McAdams is The Time Traveler's Wife
“I think there's a definite choice being made between these two characters,” McAdams said. “I think they choose to be together every day. I think they could walk away and when Claire says she doesn't have a choice, in that moment I think it’s out of frustration, but I think she genuinely means that this is the man she loves. It’s chemistry and it’s alchemy and that whatever your challenges are, that you make it work somehow. She really wouldn't have it any other way. You could be with a man who doesn’t have a chrono-displacement disorder and have some kind of other problem.”
Chron-displacement is the scientific term for Henry (Eric Bana)’s time traveling. All you need to know is that it represents bigger things. “Something I think we both deal with as actors, it’s separation, it’s falling off the face of the Earth sometimes to the other side of it. I think it’s this thing that tears you away from the people you love and I think that's something that's fairly relatable.”
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
Actually, McAdams did not have to travel to shoot The Time Traveler’s Wife. She stayed home in Canada. “That's a really nice gift to just roll right from work right to bed. But at the same time, you're almost responsible for more because you're living two lives. You have your work life and you have your regular life, and you have to come home and clean the toilet and go buy groceries and all of this stuff. And when you're on location it’s a little bit more, you're just sort of immersed in your work. Yes, it’s different.”
McAdams got to go back in time to play her character’s teenage self, during a visit from older Henry. “It was fun to be 16 again. Yes, that was really fun. You know, we spent a lot of time like talking about the hair, the clothes, the makeup. I worked with such amazingly talented people and I mean Michael with just a brushstroke would change my face a little bit, and the same with the older Claire as well. I mean I looked at myself in the mirror one day and I didn’t really realize we were doing the older Claire that day and I said, 'Oh, I'm looking a little haggard.' And she said, 'Oh don't worry. It’s paint, it’ll come off at night.'”
The Time Traveler's Wife opens to theaters on August 14th.
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