We reported you earlier today with a preview of Rachel’s upcoming Elle Magazine cover of June which will hit newsstands May 17th. Elle Magazine just released the editorial photoshoot for the cover to their official website and the first excerpts of the interview.

The editorial is stunning, the styling and lighting is amazing and it’s nothing like we seen before. We added all the released images in our gallery. The excerpts can be found below as well and be sure to read the all excerpts.

Update: We just came across another image of this shoot, she looks stunning thanks to ofalltime @ tumblr. The photos were taken by photographer Alexei Hay and styled by Joe Zee.

Rachel McAdams: The Romantic
Woody Allen wrote a movie for her. Diane Keaton is her biggest fan. She’s fronted blockbuster romcoms, seduced mouthwatering stars, and made girls old and young believe that we, too, will get swept up in an epic love story one day. Tom Shone finds Rachel McAdams 2,168 miles from the L.A. limelight

On working with Owen Wilson: “It’s definitely a different dynamic from the last time we were together. It wasn’t as fun being mean. I love that Woody likes good guys to be good guys and bad guys to be bad guys. Owen seemed to respond really well when I was a really bad guy.”

On finding inspiration in her parents’ marriage: “[They are] Still together and still in love. I’m very blessed that way. I had a great example of love in front of me, and that’s probably what makes me such a romantic, because I’ve seen it firsthand.”

On her expectations for relationships: “You grow up and you assume that everyone is like that, and you quickly realize that they’re not, and then you have those days when you wonder if you’re going to find it for yourself. It’s such a hard thing to find. I think it was more that realization that rocked me.”

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Sessions & Outtakes > 2011 > Elle (US)

Rachel will be gracing the cover of Elle Magazine’s June cover and thanks to MSN.com we now have a larger preview of the cover as well as an excerpt of the interview. We reported before with a preview of the cover and interview. We expect the full interview and magazine scans this week.

In the June issue of Elle, Rachel McAdams, who stars opposite Owen Wilson in Woody Allen’s upcoming rom-com, “Midnight In Paris,” opens up about what draws her to certain roles, admitting that the world almost missed out on her hilariously evil portrayal of Regina George. “With ‘Mean Girls,’ I originally auditioned for the part that Lindsay Lohan played,” says McAdams. “I wouldn’t have seen myself playing Regina at all. But when I read the script, I thought, ‘Oh, this part is way more fun …‘”

At heart, though, McAdams is a true romantic, and what she really loves about acting is imagining she’s in another world. “When Billie Holiday comes on, I can’t help but be transported,” she says. “I’m sure it wasn’t as romantic then, but that’s the wonderful part of my job: dressing up and walking down the street in New York or Toronto, pretending I’m in the ’40s.”

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Magazines > 2011 > June: Elle (US)

Collider sat down with Rachel yesterday during the first day of press to talk about “Midnight in Paris“. Today they already published a part of the interview were Rachel was talking about her upcoming projects. She officially confirmed her cameo in “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows“, and even confirmed she did some filming in London as well – we already saw set photos of her in Strasbourg – she also talks about “The Vow” and the Terrence Malick project.

Was it fun to get to play Irene Adler again? Were there things about her that you wanted to explore a little more?
McAdams: Yeah. I just have a small cameo in this one, but it was nice to revisit. It’s why I’ve always thought I would like to do television. You get really intimate with your character. Often with film, I find that you’re just really getting to know a person. They’re just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film. So, it was nice to get to bring her back and have time to meditate on her a bit more. I liked that exercise.

Is The Vow your next film?
McAdams: We finished The Vow after Midnight in Paris, and then I went and did a Terrence Malick film after that.

What was Terrence Malick like to work with?
McAdams: He was wonderful and so inspiring. He has a very different way of working and I think it really services a real honesty and beauty in his films. It was a great experience, as an actor. You have to be very honest and very vulnerable, and take a leap and just hope someone will catch you, and he does. You can just let yourself go and let him take you where he’s going to take you, and trust that it will be interesting and compelling. You don’t have to do a lot, in a weird way. It was a great experience.
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We already announced before Rachel would be gracing the cover of Elle Magazine in the US this June but thanks to MagazineShelf we have a small preview of the official cover and interview. We expect the magazine to hit news stands around May 12, so stay tuned for more coverage.

Who: Rachel McAdams
Hometown: Ontario (Canada)
Red Carpet Ready: The L.A. shoot took place three days before the Oscars. Afterward, McAdams borrowed a velvet Giorgi Armani dress from the mag for a bash.
On her roles: “Sometimes I don’t think I am the best person for the job. That was the case with Morning Glory … I think, Really? ”

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Magazines > 2011 > June: Elle (US)

We added the magazine scans of Rachel in the French Première in our gallery, thanks to Camillou. She spoke to the magazine while she was in Paris to promote “Morning Glory“. We tried to translate the interview into english, but since I use my ‘high-school French’ it’s not perfect and loosely translated but it’s a really nice interview and definitely worth the read. She explains the career choices the makes and wants to make, and finding the balance between work and her personal life.

You travel a lot, you are popular, respected in the industry, featured in a big movie like Morning Glory but haven’t become a complete celebrity. Do you think it’s better like that?
It’s hard to find a balance. You have to be present in a effective way, so the public wants to go and see your movies when they come out. You have to create the desire but not extend it so people will get tired of you … It’s really difficult to become an actor who can make a living for themselves by acting. I never wanted to be famous, I never seek for the attention, the public loves the glitter and glamor. In the past, an actor could be successful while maintaining a private life.

This is happening for you, right?
Yes, but for that I force myself not to be socially involved in Hollywood, if I did so I would probably have more work then I wanted. Because if you disappear for a long time from the radar, you get off the radar completely … It’s the balance I mentioned before that I am trying to achieve. And if that means you will never become a actor like Nicole Kidman or Julia Robers I am fine with that. It’s the career that suits me more. I want my privacy.

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Magazines > 2011 > April: Premiere (France)

We continue our gallery additions today with additions to our TV Appearances screencapture section in our gallery. We made captures from all the missing Talk Show interviews so far, most of them during the “Morning Glory” promotion tour. All the interviews can be watched in our media archive.

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Talk Show Interviews > 2009 August 13th: The Daily Show
Talk Show Interviews > 2009 April 15th: The Today Show – Inside
Talk Show Interviews > 2009 April 15th: The Today Show – Inside
Talk Show Interviews > 2009 April 15th: The Today Show – Outside
Talk Show Interviews > 2011 November 8th: “Live with Regis and Kelly”
Talk Show Interviews > 2011 January 10th: SAT.1 “Frühstücksfernsehen”
Talk Show Interviews > 2010 November 8th: “The Early Show”

Today we came across some missing photos of Rachel during two different TV appearances: during “The Today Show” (November 8 2010) while promoting “Morning Glory” and “The Late Night Show with Conan O’Brien” (December 4, 2009) while promoting “Sherlock Holmes“. Both sets can be viewed in our gallery.

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TV Appearances > 2010: November 8th – “The Today Show”
TV Appearances > 2009: December 4th – The Late Night Show with Conan O’Brien

We continue our “Morning Glory” media archive updates with interviews of Rachel during the press day in New York (November 2010). We previously updated you with videos from the London premiere and London press day. If you haven’t bought the DVD/Blu-Ray of “Morning Glory” yet be sure you do because it recently released (March 8), you can also get it via Itunes.

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Morning Glory > My Fox Interview
Morning Glory > Hitfix Interview
Morning Glory > ENews Interview
Morning Glory > Popsugar Interview #2

We added photos of Rachel during her Sat.1 Frühstücksfernsehen interview. It’s a German TV Morning Show were she is going to talk about “Morning Glory“. We haven’t found the interview yet but be sure to keep checking back for it. You can watch candids of Rachel leaving the studios after the interview in our update of yesterday.

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Public Appearance > Sat.1-Frühstücksfernsehen – 01/10