Friday November 20, 2009

RACHEL McAdams was so desperate to be in new movie Sherlock Holmes, she had to beg director Guy Ritchie for her part.

The actress — who plays Irene Adler alongside Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law in the hotly-anticipated flick — joked that she sat outside Ritchie’s house until he agreed to cast her.

“I hunted Guy down and camped on his doorstep until he relented!” McAdams told Total Film magazine. “OK, no, we had a chat in a garden and it went from there… Fortunately, it worked out for me.”

Rachel, 31, recently revealed that she didn’t enjoy having to squeeze into a corest while making the movie.

“I’m such a girly-girl so I was in heaven just dressed, being dressed from the head down and the costumes were incredible, I mean real-life corsets with the bones and totally cinched in and I would try to push my belly out in the morning when they were coming to strap me in,” she said.

“It really was like out of Gone With the Wind and I’m holding on to the trailer door and trying to seek out just a little bit of space so I can speak properly.

“But they managed to squeeze me in every day — they tried to make me laugh and on the laugh they’d yank, but it was so much fun.”

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