Amy Adams to portray UBC forest researcher in movie based on memoir Hollywood actor Amy Adams is set to play a UBC professor in an upcoming feature film based on the researcher’s new memoir Finding the Mother Tree. Social Sharing Movie about professor's work on how trees communicate will be produced by Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal Posted: May 23, 2021 10:00 AM PT | Last Updated: May 23 Amy Adams to play Suzanne Simard, in a movie based on the researcher's memoir.(Getty Images/CBC)