RACHEL MCADAMS IS MARIE CLAIRE'S JUNE COVERGIRL

Rachel McAdams In Marie Claire

Rachel McAdams appears on the cover of Marie Claire’s June issue (on newsstands May 19). No more Ms. Nice Guy. As a rough-around-the-edges law enforcer in this month’s cult crime show True Detective, McAdams is like nothing we’ve seen before. Which is just the way she likes it. The cover and an inside photo can be downloaded here. Below are a few quotes from the interview.

Rachel McAdams Quotes

On her role in True Detective as Detective Ani Bezzerides: “I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion, and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.”

On her character in True Detective: “I love that she’s not the girlfriend or the wife… She doesn’t really care what everyone thinks; she feels no responsibility for other people’s feelings. She’s not trying to be charming, which isn’t always the case with a leading lady. There’s [usually] sort of a responsibility to be a little bit likeable… Not that you want to be a horrendous character, just a little more human.”

On calling time-out after the Mean Girls-Notebook-Wedding Crashers trifecta: “I had to kind of reassess and go, What did I want this [success] to be, and how did I expect it to look?”