A lot of updates to catch up on, I know, but I’ve had a lot going on in my personal life. I will do my best to update the latest. For now, here’s the cover and photoshoot for Amanda and Justin Timberlake in the October 2011 issue of ‘W’ magazine.
Read the interview here.
Thanks to Brian and MagazineShelf, here’s a preview of Amanda’s upcoming April 2011 cover for Elle. Can’t wait to get a look at the spread!
Second, I’ve been stalking amazon for the “Red Riding Hood” soundtrack and it looks like it will be released on on Tuesday, March 8th. You can pre-order it or preview the song clips by clicking the image below:
I can’t wait for the Fever Ray song from the trailer!
The Interview Magazine outtakes and interview are here! You can check out the full interview HERE at the site and see the HQ outtakes below — the cover has also been replaced with a larger version. Stay tuned for the BTS video and caps, courtesy of Interview.
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March 2011: Interview
2011: Session 002 (Interview)
While the older generations might have their Audreys and their Marilyns, these days, the true litmus test of an actress’s broader youth-culture currency is not whether she’s commonly referred to by her first name only—it’s whether she has been deemed worthy of a moniker that’s an amalgam of her first and last names, like ScarJo and K-Stew and LiLo (not to mention K-Stew’s boyfriend, R-Patz). But collapsing one’s name isn’t a badge of approval so much as a mark of obsession. It doesn’t mean that you’re better at what you do than anyone else. It doesn’t mean that you’re unconditionally beloved. Rather, it signifies that you’ve become an object of fixation, which is usually preceded by some sort of professional watershed, or an association with an overwhelming cultural phenomenon, or because you’re frequently photographed looking shiny and heavy-lidded while straddling a banquet at Trousdale in a short skirt and stilettos, an unlit cigarette wedged backwards into the corner of your mouth.
So if you’ve seen the trailer for the new film Red Riding Hood—original Twilight (2008) director Catherine Hardwicke’s new gothic pastiche reimagining of the children’s fairy tale and other “My, what big teeth you have!” source material—then you understand why 25-year-old Amanda Seyfried is now perfectly positioned to become “AmSey” or “AmaSe” or, our personal favorite around the Interview offices, “MandaFried.” Appropriately, Red Riding Hood features a conspicuously Twilight-esque setup, set in a medieval village that has been engaged for decades in a mysterious arrangement with a homicidal entity known only as The Wolf (they bring the wolf periodic offerings of goats and other livestock; in exchange, he doesn’t kill anyone). The story is centered around Valerie (Seyfried), a young woman with a soft spot for red-hooded outerwear, who finds herself at the center of a love triangle, torn between her fiancée, Henry (Max Irons), and Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), her childhood best friend who has just returned to the village after a decade away. As Valerie and Peter discover their new, more adult feelings for one another, they plot to run away together. Simultaneously, The Wolf, whose identity remains elusive to the villagers, decides to break the détente, as Team Henry and Team Peter begin to form. Hyper-real, supernatural, grey-skied teen terror-love—the key elements of that rare clean-energy source that seems to fuel youth-culture mania in its most extreme forms—ensues.
Read the article + interview here.
The March issue is due to hit newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on February 22 and nationwide on March 1st — be sure to pick up a copy!
Amanda graces the March 2011 cover of Interview Magazine and you can find small previews in the gallery. I can’t wait to get a closer look at the styling!
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March 2011: Interview
2011: Session 002 (Interview)
Here’s a preview of the interview with Justin Timberlake:
Amanda Seyfried has a message for critics who say her upcoming “Little Red Riding Hood” feels an awful lot like “Twilight”: It’s totally different!
That’s what the 25-year-old actress told Justin Timberlake during a phone interview…which she conducted naked.
“I think I should mention that I’m not wearing any clothes,” Seyfried revealed to the singer in the March cover story in Interview magazine.
Seyfried and Timberlake star together in Andrew Niccol’s upcoming sci-fi flick “Now.”
Since the trailer for director Catherine Hardwicke’s “Red Riding Hood” debuted, the blogosphere has been buzzing with comparisons between the film and the first “Twilight,” which was also directed by Hardwicke.
Critics have pointed to similar storylines of a love triangle, supernatural occurrences and gruesome murders.
“We have so many elements that make it completely different,” Seyfried insisted, adding that “we’ve modernized the story.”
When Timberlake said he thought it would hard to do a Red Riding Hood adaptation, Seyfried responded.
“What we’ve done is just one way. We’re just telling a story – our version of the story. It’s not everybody’s version of the story, but it’s the way we wanted to make it. If you don’t like it then tough,” the “Big Love” and “Mamma Mia!” star said laughing.
After discussing the movie, Seyfried suddenly revealed she was naked.
“Well if that’s how you’d like to be interviewed then that’s totally fine,” the singer said.
“I’m most comfortable in my birthday suit,” she acknowledged.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up!
Amanda is one of ELLE magazine’s favorite 25 ladies and rightfully so! Having had a busy year – and another one ahead – Amanda is making her mark in Hollywood. Check out her cover and an outtake in the gallery. Can’t wait to see what other goodies the issue has!
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October 2010: Elle
2010: Session 022 (Elle)
Amanda Seyfried
Actress, box-office sweetheart
Credits: Former child model; comic foil (Mean Girls); polygamy-TV star (HBO’s Big Love); singer (Mamma Mia! ); sucker for romance (Dear John) and fairy tales (next: Red Riding Hood).
What are the best and worst things about turning 25? “The best thing is, I’m happy. The worst is that I’m scared; the scariest thing is that I know it can’t be easy—the years to come.”Check out all the ladies at ELLE.com
We have another pretty shoot heading our way in the new issue of Self Magazine! Check out the behind the scenes video — we can’t wait to see the spread!
We’ve laughed with Amanda Seyfried in Mean Girls, we sang with her as she danced through Mamma Mia, we cried with her in Dear John (her first headlining role), and we had a blast shooting her for our June cover!
When we shot the actress for our June cover, we thought a grassy Malibu location would be the perfect spot to bring out Seyfried’s girl-next-door approachability. The uber-friendly star–who arrived wearing a striped, black and white Diesel tank, a cardigan, leggings and Uggs–introducing herself to everyone on set, and was easily comfortable and chatty with everyone around her all day.
SELF’s creative director called Seyfried a “young Brigitte Bardot” when the actress playfully posed in the sun–her sexy summer shots evoked the ’50s while capturing Seyfried’s low-key vibe (No A-list attitude here; she even brought her own lunch!). All went well her until the wind caused us to move inside. Yep, we sodded the entire living room of a Malibu mansion!
Gallery Link: June 2010: Self
Teen Vogue has a gorgeous new shoot with Amanda – perfect for summer! Check it all out below and pick up the issue on newsstands May 25! And remember that Letters to Juliet is out today!
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2010: Session 015 (Teen Vogue)
2010: Session 016 (Teen Vogue Behind the Scenes)
It’s 3 p.m. on a gorgeous sunny day in Los Angeles, and Amanda Seyfried is sitting at an outdoor café, wearing a light-blue long-sleeve button-down and shorts, her signature glamorously wavy blond hair peeking out from a mustard-yellow cable-knit cap that she made herself. In a bag on the table is a DIY dog-collar kit for Finn, her blue-eyed Australian shepherd who lies lazily at her feet. The actress isn’t hiding under huge sunglasses, sitting in a dark corner, or ignoring the passersby who stop to pet her adorable pup. (In fact, she’s chatting them up, making it difficult for anyone to get a word in edgewise.)
Amanda is the rare young star who has managed to continue to thrive in Hollywood despite having no background in anything remotely Disney or Nickelodeon, and in case you haven’t noticed, she’s having a moment. In the past year, the 24-year-old actress from Allentown, Pennsylvania, has hit a movie genre trifecta—Dear John, a Nicholas Sparks tearjerker; Chloe, an indie thriller; and this month’s rom-com Letters to Juliet. And beyond the occasional red carpet and the Oscars, where she presented alongside Miley Cyrus, the paparazzi have generally left her alone. The closest they’ve gotten are a few snaps of the actress with beau (and Mamma Mia! costar) Dominic Cooper, although one guy was daring enough to follow Amanda and Finn on a recent six-mile hike.
“I don’t really care about paparazzi—like, I’m not wearing makeup right now and I should be—but when someone follows me around on a day like that, a really wonderful, beautiful day . . .” she trails off. “Had I known he was there, I would have been really upset.” Amanda’s going to have to get used to it.
A breakout role as Sophie in 2008′s Mamma Mia!, alongside Meryl Streep, launched the career of the actress, who got her start on daytime soaps As the World Turns and All My Children, but it was her big-screen debut as the ditzy Karen in Mean Girls that first made audiences take notice. “People still come up to me and say, ‘You were really funny in that,’ and I’m like, It’s not me. Tina Fey wrote everything I said!” she says, laughing. “I think I impressed a lot of people in Mean Girls. I don’t know how I pulled that off.”
Proving that her comedy chops weren’t just a fluke (or a gift from Tina Fey), Amanda shined as the nerdy Needy in last year’s Diablo Cody–written horror-com, Jennifer’s Body. Though it didn’t exactly blow up the box office, the film catapulted her into the spotlight. At the end of 2009, she announced that this past season of the HBO drama Big Love would be her last. And after Dear John made over $30 million in its opening weekend, Amanda moved from actress to star. Letters to Juliet is sure to make her a bona fide celebrity.
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