A conversation with up-and-coming actor Chris Messina  Todd Hill
By Todd Hill on August 06, 2009 at 12:34 PM, updated August 06,
2009 at 12:57 PM Amy Adams and Chris Messina play husband and
wife in the new movie "Julie & Julia," in theaters tomorrow.
When I was attending the press junket for the new Julia Child
movie "Julie & Julia" a few weeks ago up in White Plains, I had
a chance to sit down --- between press conference interviews of
stars Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci and writer/director
Nora Ephron --- with the actor Chris Messina, who plays Adams'
husband in the film, opening tomorrow.  You probably don't know
who Chris Messina is. Well, the following conversation is
intended to remedy that. As it turned out, we had both trudged
up to Westchester County from Staten Island that day, although I
had had more sleep. The 34-year-old Long Island native had been
up until 5 a.m. shooting the Jessica Alba movie "An Invisible
Sign of My Own" in our borough. He didn't know exactly where he
had been, but