Amy Adams and Christian Bale
Adams (with Bale and crewmembers in a scene shot at Boston’s Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel) affected a British accent for her character, Sydney. “I tend to be a perfectionist, and working with David actually made it easier that it’s fake because he’s in the moment, creating this pace on set that, really, you can’t overthink things,” she says. “Once I let go of the accent being perfect, I think it helped inform the character as well.”