Rachel McAdams teared up while taking her bow onstage after her special performance of Mary Jane at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in New York City on Sunday.
The 45-year-old actress received a bouquet of flowers and was moved by the star-studded audience’s applause after her performance in her Broadway debut role.
The Oscar-nominated Spotlight actress appeared overcome with joy after completing Sunday night’s show with a scene alongside co-star April Matthis.
The Notebook alum cradled her flowers as she stood onstage before later being joined by her talented co-stars.
She and her castmates, Lily Santiago and Brenda Wehle to her left as well as Matthisi and Susan Pourfar to her right, all received big bouquets of flowers.
They received a standing ovation as they performed the play as Mary Jane premiered on Broadway this year.
Afterwards, she opened up about how being on Broadway was her ‘longtime dream’ and how she gets nervous to perform onstage.
‘I feel so honored to be here,’ she said during an interview with People on the red carpet. ‘Broadway was something I’d always wanted to do but felt really intimated by. So to be standing on that stage feels like the completion of a longtime dream.’
She said she gets nervous even though she has done pre-shows multiple times already, but she ’embraces’ a healthy amount to help make her performance ‘more vibrant.’
She said she gets nervous even though she has done pre-shows multiple times already, but she ’embraces’ a healthy amount to help make her performance ‘more vibrant.’
‘I’m less nervous now, but they’re still there,’ she explained.
‘I still get nervous every night,’ she added. ‘And that’s OK! We know that there’s a certain amount of nerves that’s good and propels you forward and just makes the performance that much more vibrant, so you want to keep some of them.
‘I’m embracing the nerves! It’s just new, right? It’s like starting a new job — you’re always nervous the first day, no matter what it is, and then you get into the groove,’ she continued. ‘I feel like I’m finding my feet.’