In the Envelope: The Actor’s Podcast features in-depth conversations with today’s most noteworthy actors and creators. Join host and senior editor Vinnie Mancuso for this guide to living the creative life from those who are doing it every day.
Amanda Seyfried has done it all onscreen—classic comedies like 2004’s “Mean Girls” (her film debut!), cult horrors like “Jennifer’s Body,” musical adaptations like “Mammia Mia!” and “Les Misérables,” and intense dramas like the Linda Lovelace biopic “Lovelace” and, most recently, the Peacock crime-thriller series “Long Bright River.” But what she loves to do is lead, as was the case on “Long Bright River,” where she earned a spot at the top of the call sheet. “I love being number one,” Seyfried tells us. “I love setting the tone.”
“It’s easy to be somewhere if you want to be there, and it makes it a hell of a lot easier if we’re all working toward the same outcome with the same attitude,” she says. “That’s why I choose things that I want to work on, because the idea of being on a set away from my kids, away from my farm, and being the number two on a show where the number one’s a dick is just like hell on earth. Because there’s only so much you can do when you’re not the lead, which is really sad.”
On this episode of In the Envelope: The Actor’s Podcast, Seyfried opens up about her entire career, from early audition obstacles to the thrills of her recent successes; how she feels about the delayed praise for “Jennifer’s Body”; and why she personally wants a third “Mamma Mia!” movie to happen.
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