“She didn’t like me wearing makeup,” Adams said in a December 2024 interview withPeople.

And I was like, ‘You got it.’

So there were years where I didn’t wear makeup wherever we went.

Amy Adams smirking

I mean, I sneaked some mascara," she said.

Adams once confided that her husband, however, had a different response to her makeup.

He enjoys me getting dressed up.

Amy Adams smiling

He says: ‘You clean up well,'" Adams toldCosmopolitanin 2013 of her now-husband.

Without it, she quipped that her face failed to stand out.

“I have no features without makeup,” she said.

“I am pale.

I have blond lashes.

You could just paint my face it’s like a blank canvas.

It can be great for what I do.”