Rachel McAdams

This is Rachel in her movie

Rachel McAdams is a very talented, successful young actress. She has starred in extremely successful movies, including "The Notebook," "Mean Girls," and "Red Eye." Rachel is my hero, because she can make just about anything happen, and she is truly wholesome. This is an example that I want to follow. My dream is to become a powerful, successful actress, and I will always hope to be decent.

"The Notebook," which grossed an estimated $80 million, was definitely a good film. Rachel shares a story about her experience with the quality of this film on an airplane. "I was on this plane once and they were playing 'The Notebook' and I was sitting beside this guy who was watching the film," she recalls. "I drank a lot of water on the plane, so I was getting up constantly. He had his legs in the aisle, and we were sort of falling all over each other, and he was staring at the screen the whole time. I was saying, 'excuse me'. No recognition." The rest of the passengers were equally oblivious. As she was standing at the front of the plane waiting for a lavatory to become available, McAdams' head was between two Notebook-playing screens. "No one noticed. Not one person had any recognition, which is great," she says. "I'm glad they were really into the film."

Rachel's next film, 'Mean Girls," is my personal favorite. In playing such a dark, evil character, Rachel says, "Everybody has a dark side and we shy away from it so much. I think if we had a better understanding of human behaviour, things would be a little bit different. "I just want a good female character," she continues. "I don't care if she's an unattractive person or if she has issues. The more issues, the better." "I guess I don't always need to play the character who is the hero," says McAdams. "I just want to play unique people you haven't seen before. Someone who you just want to get inside their head and understand what makes them tick."

And her most recent film, "Red Eye," is a horror/action flick. Rachel herself is not a fan of horror, but she enjoyed the page-turning potential of the script. Rachel’s character, Lisa Reisert, spends the majority of the film being chased and threatened by the bad guy (Cillian Murphy – Batman Begins), a hired gunman who needs Lisa to switch a room occupied by the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, exposing him to an assassination attempt. Of the film being shot almost entirely in an airplane, McAdams says, "Spending all that time on the plane in that confined space, not having a lot of dialogue, you [have to have] a lot of the work done behind your eyes and hoping that it comes across. The subtleties were so significant."

Rachel is a very good actress. "She hates being compared, but I often said to her, 'You can be Meryl Streep. You can be Sigourney Weaver or Julia Roberts'," says David Dobkin, the director of the new film Wedding Crashers. "I believe she can [do] almost anything that you ask her to do." Another director, Wes Craven, calls McAdams an actress of "enormous range and great charisma, not to mention a fantastic beauty".

Ms. McAdams is also a decent person as well. She cares about her fans, she likes being an example. Even director Dobkin thinks so. "She's so wholesome…” says Dobkin. However, it’s not all perfection and poise – McAdams knows how to have fun. “She's … got some fun, truly girlish streaks," says Dobkin.

This is Rachel posing for a photographer. (www.ne.jp)

Rachel McAdams is my hero, because she is an amazing actress, and is wholesome, too. She is my role model; I want to be a great actress, just like her! I value being decent, and so does Ms. McAdams.