Amanda Seyfried forMarie Claire’s 2022 Beauty Changemakers Issue.Photo: Victoria Will
Amanda Seyfriedmay have made her breakout film debut inMean Girls, but there’s one part of the experience she remembers as “gross.”
“I was like 18 years old,” she says, referring to the age she waswhen the teen comedywas released in April 2004. “It was just gross.”
Of working with Seyfried on the iconic film, which also starredRachel McAdamsandLindsay Lohan, costarLacey Chabert(who played Gretchen Wieners) tellsMarie Clairethat Seyfried, whom she is still friends with, “has this really dry sense of humor and dry wit.”
“The biggest challenge on set was to not laugh on camera, when we weren’t supposed to be laughing,” adds Chabert, 39.
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Amanda Seyfried on the cover ofMarie Claire’s 2022 Beauty Changemakers Issue.
In general, Seyfried says, she thinks “being really famous [young] must really f—ing suck.”
“It must make you feel completely unsafe in the world,” Seyfried muses. “I see these younger actors who think they have to have security. They think they have to have an assistant. They think their whole world has changed. It can get stressful. I’ve seen it happen to my peers.”
“So,I bought a farm. I was like, let’s go in the opposite way,” she adds.
For Seyfried, “fame is weird,” despite feeling like she has “never been super famous.”
“I’ve always been somewhat recognizable,” she continues. “It’s been the healthiest trajectory. [It’s] nota scary spike. I have my priorities. I know who I am. I know where I’m going. I know what it means. It means that I’m getting to do what I love. I’m actually not afraid of it now.”
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TheAcademy Awardnominee’s interests outside of Hollywood have even extended to helping parents welcome their children into the world — so much so that she trained to become a doula.
“I was like, ‘This is the most amazing thing I’ve ever been a part of. I have to be there for women; childbirth is amazing,’ " Seyfried tellsMarie Claire.
While she never got fully certified (“I’m better at, like, taking pictures and massaging the back,” Seyfried admits), she says of the experience, “I was talking to my doula a lot about what she did.”
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source: people.com
