Platinum blonde and beautiful Credit: Sony Pictures Classics

No, gorgeous actress Rachel McAdams is not morphing into a musical artist. She went very, very platinum blonde for her new mystery/romance/dark comedy Married Life. Rachel has been off our radar for a little while after playing the gal we loved to hate in Mean Girls, breaking our hearts in The Notebook and taking us on a sky high thrill ride in Red Eye. In Married Life, Rachel plays a hot young widow who has lost her handsome husband in WWII. Now, she is pursued by hot older men Chris Cooper and Pierce Brosnan; two totally opposite types in the film.

Regrouping has done the actress a lot of good and she's back with a vengeance in several upcoming projects. We were happy to see her again at the 4 Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills where we chatted about her new film, her blonde bombshell look (she's back to her pretty light brown in real life) and what's coming up for this far from "mean girl". Picture Rachel in slinky black dress, a gray sweater and high black heels with a cute lace-up feature. She explained that the gray sweater was due to a see-through problem with the dress for her earlier TV interviews. Yikes.

TeenHollywood: Welcome back to the press interview scene.

Rachel: It's good to be back. I missed you guys.

TeenHollywood: What did that platinum hair dye job do to your hair?