Amanda Seyfried (pronounced SIGH-frid) says that her big eyes make her look a bit like a frog.

But the Amanda sitting across a small table last month in a suite at New York’s Ritz-Carlton looks nothing like a frog, unless she’s referring to some parallel bizarro universe in which frogs kiss ugly princes to turn them into frogs.

Seyfried (“The Big Love,” “Mean Girls”) is pretty, petite and bursting with energy and opinion. In a celebrity culture in which actors are either dumb as rocks or prepped for the press like political candidates, this Allentown native and her handlers haven’t yet gotten the memo. She’s as refreshing as a Cape May breeze.

It is hoped that “Mamma Mia,” her first leading role (and it’s opposite Meryl Streep), won’t change her.

Q. After a series of serious roles in “Law & Order: SVU,” “House” and “Alpha Dog,” was it easy for you to lighten up for ABBA?

A. It was pretty simple for me to just be excited, and that’s the character I play. She’s just enthusiastic about life, and I was so enthusiastic about filming that I didn’t really have to go anyplace to get the right attitude. It was a very rare experience – Greece and Meryl and Pierce [Brosnan] and dancing and singing, sharing something that is so private for me.

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Here to make my very first post, I just wanted to inform you about the Hard C School Dance Amanda attended at Loft at the Highlands in Los Angeles on July 12. She was accompanied by Mamma Mia! co-star Dominic Cooper and some friends of hers (in matching outfits!). Judging from the photo, it looks like Amanda had a lot of fun that night.

I would like to give a warm welcome to my good friend Filip, known for his sites on Becki Newton and Cameron Diaz, who will be maintaining Amanda Seyfried Source with me from now on. As you may notice, Filip has spiffied up the layout to celebrate the release of Mamma Mia! and together we will be working on improving the site gradually. I hope you all like the ‘new’ look!

Q: How many times a year do you get back to Allentown?

A: Well, last year I came home a number of times. Usually it’s three times. I’m always home for Christmas.

Q: When you come home, where do you like to hang out?

A: My friend Maureen [Murphy's] house. We always watch movies at her house. Literally, when I come home all I do is watch movies at Maureen’s house. Sometimes we go to Stooges. It’s basically where everybody from my high school goes. It’s nice to reconnect with people at least once a year.

Q: Do you have a favorite store at the mall?

A: I love the Gap. But I almost never go to the mall anymore.

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Amanda Seyfried is now enjoying her time in the spotlight as the star of the musical Mamma Mia! not just because she’s had a lot of insecurities in the past as a budding actress, but because she’s being surrounded some of Hollywood’s biggest names.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the 22-year-old actress gushed over her hot co-stars on Mamma Mia!, which will hit theaters on July 18.

According to Seyfried, who also stars on the HBO polygamy-themed series Big Love, she gets very excited upon the mention of a certain British actor and a former Bond man. She is, of course referring to her male Mamma Mia! co-stars Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan.

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Amanda Seyfried may be a dancing queen now – thanks to her starring role as Sophie in the big-screen version of “Mamma Mia!” – but the show has been running on Broadway since Seyfried turned 13. And the Swedish rock band Abba, on whose songs the blockbuster stage musical was based, broke up three years before the 22-year-old actress was born.

“I didn’t know a thing,” Seyfried admits, speaking by cell telephone as she rides through Manhattan in a limousine. “Honestly, I didn’t know anything about Abba or ‘Mamma Mia!’ I know now that my dad was a fan, back when Abba was huge, but I really just knew some A-Teens tunes, when the A-Teens were big. They were this teen group that sang Abba songs, and I was probably 13.

“And I only found out about the show because of the audition for the movie.”

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Mamma Mia!-loving homos experienced a bit of heartbreak this weekend. Lead actress Amanda Seyfried and cast mate Dominic Cooper were meant to appear at lavender-tinged film festival Outfest, but the duo’s management pulled the plug right before their alleged red carpet responsibilities.

…At the last minute, Outfest’s p.r. man, Carl Larsen, received an e-mail: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, the red-carpet arrivals…have been canceled.” Larsen said, “I was taken by surprise. There was no explanation.”

Another observer fumed, “Outrageous! How can [Seyfried] diss the gays like that? This is our movie!” A rep for Universal said, “This was never a red-carpet event. She volunteered to come and introduce the movie and did a great job. There was never a red carpet for her to walk.”

Source: Queerty

Amanda Seyfried stars alongside screen icons Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia! but the up-and-coming actress was probably the most comfortable person on set.

While Streep, Brosnan and co-star Colin Firth have admitted to being terrified by the prospect of dancing and singing ABBA songs, the 22-year-old said she was born to do it.

Seyfried studied singing for six years and was considering a career as a classical singer before she got her first acting role on US soap All My Children.

“It’s just something I was born to do,” Seyfried said.

“I know that sounds lame, but for as long as I can remember I was just performing. I started acting when I was 15, and singing when I was 11, and dancing in high school.

“It’s not really unbelievable to see (myself doing all three) because it’s always been in me anyway, whereas with Pierce, he never expected to see himself singing and dancing.”

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From Inquirer:

Of Amanda Seyfried, who plays her bride-to-be daughter Sophie, the mother of three girls enthused, “From the moment Amanda opened her mouth in the first reading, I felt like she was one of my daughters. She shares many traits with my daughters. She is strong. She has a quiet voice but she has a stubborn streak. The word that keeps coming up about her is delicious. That’s the way I feel about my girls. It’s very easy to feel that Amanda was too young to get married, just like the way I feel about my girls.”

A few of you have asked me what the advance reviews of Mamma Mia! have been like so I thought I’d make a little post about it. The reviews have over all been positive and the film has a 7.5 rating at IMDb and 71% over at Rotten Tomatoes. The film opens in the UK tomorrow, premieres in New York City on July 16 and opens in cinemas in the US on July 18.

By the way, you can watch many related videos and clips over at Yahoo! Movies.