Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen ("Sideways", "Firewall") co-stars with Jim Carrey in the upcoming drama "The Number 23" and she talked a bit about the film to SCI FI Wire recently.

In The Number 23, Madsen plays the wife of a man (Carrey) who begins to see similarities between his life and a book, and follows the dark journey into the mind of a man who's losing touch with reality. "It's very dark and scary. This is going to be such an important film for Jim, because he was so ready to be this... It's basically this man's descent into madness, as he slowly loses his mind, and I'm trying to pull him back from the brink," she says.

Madsen added: "He's going into this other world as he's reading a book called The Number 23. And he starts to think that the book is about him, because of all these similarities. Then he's convinced that it is him. Then he's convinced that this is being done to him. So he's madly trying to find out who's to blame and becomes suspicious of me, and he just gets darker and darker and darker. And you go into the world that he's seeing as you read the book, too. So visually [there's] all this wild stuff--it's [director] Joel Schumacher-- ... it's all these weird worlds that you go into and stuff. It's going to be very cool"

"The Number 23" is slated for release in February 2007.