Amy Adams talks about shooting The Master

Paul Thomas Anderson is known for his serious subject matter, so when Amy Adams showed up on set for The Master, she was surprised to find how funny the director was. "[What surprised me was] how funny he was and how much we laughed on set," Adams says in an interview with Collider at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. "I thought it was going to be a very serious experience. Although we definitely delved into serious subject matters in the scenes, the experience of working with him was a lot more fun than I expected."

The three-time Oscar nominee was shocked that the director even called her in the first place. "First off," she continues, "when I just saw that 'Paul Thomas Anderson is going to be sending you a script', I was like, 'what just happened to my life?'" She goes on to explain what it was like to work with Anderson, who is famous for his work with actors. "He is very open," she says. "If he doesn't like it he will just cut it out or reshoot it. So he is more experienced. He didn’t say, "I'm more experienced!" so I hate quoting, but my impression was that he is more interested in what happens organically between two actors when left alone. He will definitely direct a scene , but he is not giving line readings...Sometimes it would be two takes and sometimes it would be Joaquin walking back and forth for 12 hours. It didn't all end up in the film, but I feel like we did that for 12 hours. It started in the daytime and it was after midnight by the time we were done. It was pretty intense." ~Devin Garabedian