Rachel mcadams the notebook driver#

When Susan Downey (wife of Robert and a producer of Sherlock Holmes) suggested to the actress that it might be time to “rethink the boots,” McAdams protested, “But they are just broken in perfectly.”ġ982–87, on the ice: McAdams started figure skating at age four and “thought about a life in it for about a nanosecond. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.” This means that McAdams will keep using a tote bag or a pair of shoes-even one purchased when she was still a drama student at York University-long past its prime. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. “I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. Thomas, Ontario, where her parents still live-and from her ever-deepening environmental awareness.

Rachel mcadams the notebook driver#

I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.” This stems from her modest, small-town upbringing-she is the daughter of a truck driver and a nurse, raised in St. ” The night before, she cooked “halibut with Gruyère sauce.” The actress isn't acquisitive in the conventional sense: “I don't really desire things.

She explains, “I need to have better knife skills. McAdams has enrolled in a knife-skills class at Good Egg, a small kitchenware store in Kensington Market. And as regards air conditioning, she thinks green: “I can't live with it. I think she's really an actress-solid, right there.” Her interest in catwalk trends is so slight that when she received a Proenza tie-dye tee-before the runway, before anyone, the must-have piece for spring 2010!-she wore it to bed, alone. Says Diane Keaton, McAdams's costar in Thomas Bezucha's The Family Stone and Roger Michell's forthcoming Morning Glory, “Rachel's not drawn toward fashion.

Not that she's one to dwell on such things. It works: The 31-year-old is curvy, tiny-waisted, and fits any runway sample.

That's my limit.” Throw in her habit of biking or walking everywhere, and there you have the long and short of her fitness regimen. McAdams practices Kundalini yoga every morning, even when she's on set.