Amy Adams Feels ‘Wonderful’ After Turning 50 as She Premieres New Movie Nightbitch (Exclusive)

“Just very centered and happy to be here,” the actress told PEOPLE at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 7

 

Amy Adams is feeling positive about getting older!

On Saturday, Sept. 7, Adams exclusively told PEOPLE that she’s feels “very grateful” after turning 50 last month as she attended the premiere of her new film Nightbitch at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

“I feel wonderful at 50,” the Disenchanted star tells PEOPLE of the milestone.

Adams went on to acknowledge that people typically harp on growing older, but she has no complaints at the moment. “I know everyone’s like, ‘Oh, it’s 50.’ And I’m like, I feel great. I feel very grateful, just very centered and happy to be here. Really grateful.”

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The actress wore a dark blue off-the-shoulder Prada gown with large bejeweled elements and a pair of simple diamond hoop earrings to the premiere. She was joined on the carpet by her husband Darren Le Gallo and their daughter Aviana Olea Le Gallo, 14.

Adams also spoke about watching the movie with her daughter at the premiere. “Parts of it I’m excited to share with her, being that it’s her mom I’m gonna be a little bit more protective of certain aspects of the filmmaking,” she tells PEOPLE.

The six-time Oscar nominee continues, “I think what I want her to know about my experience of motherhood is how much she’s enriched my life and made me the woman that I am today,” alluding to the film’s storyline of a new mother who is convinced she is turning into a dog.

“I tell her that all the time, but it’s true and I’m glad that she’s here tonight to get to celebrate with me,” she adds.

In a 2014 interview with Vogue, Adams admitted that she felt overwhelmed when she turned 40. “I was like, ‘I’m 40 and I still care what people think of me; I still don’t do laundry so I’m always out of things; I’m just not a grown-up at all,’ and I had this expectation that I would be by this age. It wasn’t, ‘Oh, I’m getting old and I’m going to lose something vibrant about myself.’ It was more that I was just ‘so disappointed with myself.’ It’s just awful. Any chance for self-loathing,” she said.

At the time, she felt worried “about everything – mothering, relationships. . . . I think it’s because I want to continue to grow; I don’t like being stagnant. Especially when you watch how fast children grow, and what they take into their soul and their intellect. It’s like we make this decision to stop growing. I don’t want to do that.”

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Adams’ latest movie is an adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel of the same name. In it, Adams’ character “pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her new domesticity takes a surreal turn,” according to a synopsis.

Alongside Adams, who also produces, the movie stars Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Patrick Snowden, Emmett James Snowden, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland, Archana Rajan and Jessica Harper.

Nightbitch is in theaters Dec. 6.