Rachel McAdams Glamour Magazine February 2012

Rachel McAdams is the cover girl for the February issue of Glamour Magazine, which hits newsstands on January 10.

The 33-year-old Canadian actress chats with the mag about acting, falling in love with co-stars and her former job of working at McDonalds.  Check out some highlights below:

On if playing a serious or silly role is more difficult:  “I think playing silly. I’m very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.”

On falling in love on a movie set: “A set may seem like a good place for romance, but I don’t think it’s very conducive; it’s too distracting. Every relationship I’ve had with a coworker has come after the fact, because you wind up actually spending a lot of time with those people promoting the movie.”

On if she helps in creating her characters’ looks:  “Yeah, I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It’s preferable when it’s not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can’t afford these Christian Louboutins. [The stylist] will say, ‘No one will notice.” And I’m like, “Everyone knows that red-bottom shoe!’”

On her all-time favorite romantic movie: “Just one?! In the Mood for Love, Giant, Days of Heaven and the Russian film Burnt by the Sun. I can’t choose just one.”

On crushes she’s had on actors:  “I loved soap operas when I was young, so Antonio Sabato Jr. and Maurice Benard from General Hospital. And who could forget Josh Brolin in The Goonies?”

On what she’d do if she wasn’t acting:  “I wouldn’t mind running a restaurant. I’m not an amazing cook, but I can follow a recipe.”

On working at McDonald’s:  “Yeah, for a good three years. My sister and brother worked there. My sister was my manager! It was a great place to work, but I had a little bit of an OCD thing with hand washing and just didn’t have time. They were like, “Hey, the drive-through’s backing up. Stop washing your hands!” I was not a great employee; I broke the orange juice machine one day.”