But well before Adam and Kate drift apart, we see how even though his insecurities sometimes run rampant, they never completely obscure the woman who's standing in front of him. Favreau brings layers of intelligence and intuitiveness to the role. They banter and argue and have terrific sex, but they don't fit so perfectly as a couple, in terms of both physical appearance and temperament, that we're altogether reassured that they'll make it. It's always difficult for a staggeringly beautiful actress to play at being lovelorn. The average woman wants desperately to believe that gorgeous women never lack for dates.
Cupid is a notoriously indiscriminate marksman.
Janssen never comes off as either pitifully unsure of herself or overconfident of her looks. It would be disingenuous for Kate to pretend she's not attractive, but the way Janssen tosses off the line hints at the insecurities that lurk in every woman's heart. There are times when Cupid may as well be a nutcase stationed in a bell tower with a shotgun for all that he seems to care whom he hits. And there are other times when, miraculously, he strikes it just right. The arrow may be a trick one, wayward and wobbly, but in the end, its aim is true.