Here’s a new interview Amanda did for Irish Times in which she talks about fame, her successful career and much more.

All of a sudden, Amanda Seyfried is everywhere, and ahead of her next film, which involves working with Glenn Close adn John Banville, she discusses picking roles, long-distance relationships and writing songs with Damien Rice

FOR SOME LUCKY young Hollywood actors, there comes a moment when they become suddenly ubiquitous: out of nowhere, it seems, they’re constantly in the cinemas, on magazine covers, in gossip columns – everywhere they are supposed to be, essentially, and all at once. The speed with which this can happen is a mystifying part of the star-making process, so who better to ask about how it occurs than the suddenly ubiquitous 24-year-old actor Amanda Seyfried, who in short order has appeared in the steamy thriller Chloe , this week’s weepy Dear John , and another romance, Letters to Juliet , due later this summer, as well as the recent Vanity Fair Young Hollywood spread. Surely she can shed light on how a star is born?

“The only reason people say I’m having a moment is because all these movies are coming out at the same time,” she says, twirling a finger through her long blonde hair as she considers how she has reached this point. “But that wasn’t my doing at all. I did these movies separately, there were two and three months between all these films, but they’re all coming out in a short window. It’s dumb luck in the beginning, picking these parts, then it has to become calculated – you have to establish yourself a bit, and then you have to get quite strategic, which can be a pain in the ass, choosing between projects. It’s nice people are recognising me, though.”

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