Amy Adams hired a private coach to prepare for her role in new baseball movie Trouble With The Curve because she has always been bad at sports - and was even kicked off her youth baseball team.
The actress' semi-professional body builder mum Kathryn coached her at baseball as a youngster, but Adams insists she was a horrible player and was dropped from the line-up.
During an interview with U.S. talk show The View on Wednesday (12Sep12), she said, "When I was little, my mum actually kicked me off the t-ball (baseball) team because I was afraid of the ball, and she was the coach... She always said, 'You just didn't look like you were having fun,' as I ran from, like, every flying object."
Adams feared her failures would come back to haunt her after she was cast as a baseball scout in the upcoming sports drama, so she hired a trainer to teach her how to throw a ball and swing a bat.
She tells American morning show Today, "I actually had to get a coach, a private baseball coach, because before I started this film I could not do any of those (things)."
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