Amy Adams Absolutely 'Freaked Out' the Dogs on Set of Her Latest Movie

Amy Adams new movie, entitled Nightb--ch, has the American Hustle actress portraying a woman who has her maternal instincts transform into canine form after staying home with her toddler all day.

In the movie, Adams had some canine co-stars and it sounds like they may have been a little too impressed with the six-time Academy Award nominee's acting chops.

Entertainment Weekly reports that in the shooting of one scene of Nightb--ch the writer-director Marielle Heller said, "There's a scene where Amy walks down the steps to all the dogs in the yard, and we'd practiced with the trainers over and over again: She's going to walk on this step and walk down, and you'll all start swarming around her. We did it over and over and over again," Heller told the audience at the Princess of Wales theater, recounting a scene from the film that follows Adams as a new mother who begins turning into a ravenous dog. "Of course, Amy is acting when she does it, so she's doing this weird looking at the dogs [thing], and the dogs freaked out and started lunging at her."

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The article goes on to say that Adams was quoted with, "So, yeah, I freaked the dogs out on the set," Adams added. "We got it under control. We took one off, the one that was still not going to be okay no matter what I did because he didn't trust me after that. He got a rest for the rest of the night."

Another awesome aspect of this movie? One of the dog stars was a dog they adopted from a shelter and trained before he made his debut in the film! You have to love it when a shelter dog ends up getting such a happy ending.

What the Movie is About

Nightb--ch was written in 2021 and it's about a stay at home mom who sometimes turns into a dog. Wikipedia reports that, "Yoder had not written for two years when she began writing Nightb--ch. She wrote it in part due to the anger she felt after becoming a mother and the resultant changes to her personal and professional life.^[Yoder wrote the novel free of concerns about its strangeness, as she wrote it "for herself", though she did have concerns that the book's premise would not provide enough substance for a book of the length she wanted to write

Nightb--ch opens in theaters on December 6.