If you know me personally, or have been reading this blog you will know that 99% of time I hold a deep hatred for romantic comedies, once in a while a good one does comes along (500 Days Of Summer for example) this looks like it could be one of those times. The trailer gives away a bit too much for me though, everyone knows the twist at the end now. I spoke to Amy Adams while she was promoting Night At The Museum 2 briefly about Leap Year check out what she said below.

Can you discuss your new film, Leap Year, set in Ireland?

Amy Adams: “It’s a romantic comedy with Matthew Goode. I play a woman who feels that her boyfriend is dragging his heels on the engagement. He has not proposed to her, so she decides to take matters into her own hands and go to Ireland to propose to him because of the tradition in Britain and Ireland that in a leap year, on February 29^th, women can propose. Along the way she is forced to look at herself and her choices by a charming and dapper inn keeper played by Matthew Goode.”

What was Ireland like?

Amy Adams: The weather was not too bad and I had a lot of fun, I was drinking pints of Guinness in pubs and eating Irish cream teas and soda bread which I love.  It was fantastic.

How do you choose roles at this point?

Amy Adams: “I look for interesting characters that I relate to. As far as scripts are concerned, when I read them I don’t spend a lot of time deliberating. I somehow know when I have to do something; there will be a connection I feel with a character, a director, or an actor who I’m going to be working with.  There’s always something about the story that pulls me in. I have an immediate gut reaction to stories that I know I will be passionate about.”

Was acting a big dream for you?

Amy Adams: “I was always been very focused, but I wouldn’t say I was driven. ‘Driven’ to me has a sense of blind ambition, but I definitely worked really hard. I trained as a dancer and that’s what I spent most of my time doing, but honestly I didn’t know what I was going to be. I have always let the wind take me wherever it will. Growing up I never thought that being in films was at all possible; I didn’t even imagine a career in movies.  I always envisioned being on stage, because that was something that I was familiar with.  A film career just wasn’t a part of my reality.  But I love it now.”

Amy Adams (SUNSHINE CLEANING, DOUBT, ENCHANTED) is a young woman who has an elaborate scheme to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day, an Irish tradition which occurs every time the date February 29 rolls around. However she faces a major setback when bad weather threatens to derail her planned trip to Dublin. With the help of an innkeeper, however, her cross-country odyssey just might result in her getting engaged. From the director of RED RIDING 1983 and AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER, LEAP YEAR is a charming and quirky love story which is guaranteed to leave its audience leaping for joy.

Leap Year is released in cinemas nationwide on 26th February 2010.