The March 2010 issue of Vanity Fair features Abbie Cornish alongside Kristen Stewart and Carey Mulligan on it’s cover and Amanda Seyfried (among other actresses) in it’s fold out. VF.com has released a sneak peek at the article and another striking image of the ladies from the shoot, plus an on set video and stills. Watch the video after the break.
She was more dippy than mean in her 2004 film debut, Mean Girls, announcing vacantly that her breasts could predict the weather. But it took a most unlikely confection—the movie musical Mamma Mia!—for the world to see Amanda Seyfried in her full, dewy, wide-eyed loveliness. Since then she has become the go-to girl for modern fairy tales, including Lasse Hallström’s Dear John and the forthcoming Letters to Juliet. But watch for a 180-degree turn in this month’s Chloe, Atom Egoyan’s artsy sexual thriller, in which 24-year-old Seyfried plays the alluring, troubled complication in a failing marriage.
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The lushly romantic Dear John hasn’t even opened yet, but that passionate kiss in the rain between Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum is already generating heat on the Internet.
There are times when the intensity of their scenes together in this film adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks’ bestselling novel seems more than real. But although the web may be working itself into something of a frenzy over these moments, don’t assume there was anything actually happening between the two stars during filming in South Carolina.
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On a particularly nasty, nearly rainy, ever-windy Sunday night, the red carpet that had been placed at the entrance of the Hippodrome for the premiere of the Lowcountry-shot film Dear John was empty. Instead, Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried were busy meeting fans far away from the carpet. They almost didn’t make it back.
Girls were practically tearing their hair out of their heads for an opportunity to take a picture with Tatum (G.I. Joe, Step Up) and Seyfried (Mamma Mia!, Big Love). Tatum wore “just Gucci” while Seyfried was super sweet (and tiny) in a red Stella McCartney dress and stacked silver pumps, which she promptly changed out of after posing for the press. Both talked of loving Charleston (duh) and buying houses here (insert excited squeal here), and Seyfried casually mentioned she had visited her future house and neighbor (whom she loves) already that day. “Charleston and St. Louis are two of the best places in the world,” she gushed.
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Not every love story needs to be a saga, like Dr. Zhivago. Sometimes the simplest stories make the best movies, and Nicholas Sparks has made a mint feeding a public ravenous for romance.
First love, as depicted in Dear John, is especially poignant.
“I’m very drawn to a story of that first love one has,” says Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe), who stars opposite leading lady Amanda Seyfried in Lasse Hallstrom’s adaptation of Sparks’ 2006 novel. “At that age, you have no idea what love is, what a relationship is, what you have to do to be in one. And there’s no way for it to work out perfectly.
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There are mixed reviews for Jennifer’s Body flowing in, but either way I’m still dying to see this one! It seems everyone seems to be saying it works better as a comedy than a horror film, but it’s not being marketed that way. I really wish people would see is it’s meant to be both. The horror-only marketing is something that seems done by the company (which is why Diablo Cody released a red band trailer which is much lighter and showcasing the humor) I always felt it seems more of that witty dark humor from classic horror films I loved. But it’s obviously open for interpretation.
From: /Film
But again, this film feels more like a comedy than it does a contemporary horror movie, and I’m sure those who might end up liking Jennifer’s Body, will appreciate the humor over the scares/gore.
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The Vomit shot out of Megan Fox like water from a geyser. A ghastly movie concoction that looked like a mix of used motor oil, lawn clippings and the slag at the bottom of a Souplantation trash bin, the black puke sprayed actors Amanda Seyfried and Johnny Simmons, whose characters were doing their best to fight off a cannibalistic fiend, an otherwise popular cheerleader named Jennifer Check.
It was among the more gothic scenes in Jennifer’s Body, a closing battle with fewer rules than Ultimate Fighting, pitting Jennifer (Transformer’s Fox) against her longtime friend Needy Lesnicky (Seyfried, of Mamma Mia!) and her relatively wimpy boyfriend Chip Dove (Evan Almighty’s Simmons). The movie’s swimming pool location, inside a derelict juvenile hall slated to become a hospital for British Columbia’s criminally insane, was forbidding in its own right. The flotsam in the pool’s filthy water — leaves, a wheelchair, beer cans — made the entire setting for the film stomach-turning, especially since the young actors had to swim in it.
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You can’t help but wonder if Mamma Mia! will be the breakthrough role for Amanda Seyfried. True, audiences have seen her in Mean Girls and Big Love, but she’s in a much bigger spotlight here, singing and acting alongside Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, and Colin Firth.
“Before I got the role, I used to sing, but not professionally,” she tells The Daily Mail, “and as soon as I heard about Mamma Mia! I knew I had to do it. I was nervous singing for [ABBA members] Benny and Björn and I just did the best I could.”
Adds Seyfried, “But nothing in the film was really that challenging as I was basically playing myself. Sophie’s a young girl excited about life, so it just felt right.”
That’s not the only thing that felt right, apparently. Though you rarely hear such talk when these things fizzle, the 22-year-old actress is remarkably candid about her on-set fling with her on-screen fiancé Dominic Cooper. In real life, Seyfried was in a two-year relationship with actor and musician Jesse Marchant, and Cooper had been with the same girl for 12 years, although that relationship apparently survived the dalliance.
“I just found him funny and it was like we were the same person – except that he’s British, almost 30 and a man,” gushes the ebullient actress. “We both look like frogs with our wide-set eyes, we’re both indecisive and neither of us has a lot of willpower.”
You don’t hear phraseology like that everyday to describe the spark of love: Low willpower? Check. Indecisive? Check. Toady? Check.
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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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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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