Animal lover Amanda Seyfried is known for doting on her Australian shepherd, Finn, so it’s no surprise she instantly fell for the menagerie that ELLE had waiting for her at New York City’s Splashlight studio, which included a bunny, a goose, kittens, doves, mice, and a very rare winter lamb named Louisa, all well cared for and lovingly attended to. Seyfried arrived looking like an all-American coed in a North Face puffer jacket, olive green Vince sweater, black denim Nobody jeans, and Rachel Comey backpack. With her morning coffee in hand, the Pennsylvania-raised beauty (who is the new face of Clé de Peau Beauté) had to be coaxed away from her furry sidekicks to be shot in a tiered Alexander McQueen dress, a lace Isabel Marant dress, a silk Fendi gown, and an embellished top and bloomers by Dolce & Gabbana. With Smashing Pumpkins, Kings of Leon, and Rihanna blasting, Seyfried embodied ELLE creative director Joe Zee’s vision for the shoot: “Super natural, girly, but with a Lolita edge.” When it was time to break for lunch, she and the crew fueled up on salad, french fries, and cupcakes while she dished on an upcoming excursion to Mexico (remaining coy about rumored love Ryan Phillippe). At the end of the day, she slipped out the door to meet friends for dinner with a pair of coral calfskin Fendi sandals—a gift from the designer—stowed in her backpack.

Since Amanda has been doing promotion for Red Riding Hood, we have a new interview of her with Extra! Check it out:

Actress Amanda Seyfried opened up to “Extra” about her new film — the spooky version of the children’s story of “Red Riding Hood,” directed by “Twilight’s” Catherine Hardwicke. The 24-year-old said she enjoyed working on the film, although staring at a piece of wood, which was supposed to be the bloodcurdling CGI wolf, proved to be difficult. “I had to trick my body into anxiety,” she admitted.

Working with Hardwicke was a wonderful experience for Seyfried, who said of her director, “She’s magical and passionate and energized beyond belief.”

Amanda recalled she wasn’t allowed to wear the red cloak outside the set because of the always-present paparazzi. The actress revealed, “The paparazzi, they don’t really encroach on my personal life. They catch me doing mundane things… going to the gym, dropping my dog off, getting a facial… I just smile because they hate that.”

Entertainment Tonight has a new interview with Amanda! Check it out:

What big eyes you have. What big teeth you have! Amanda Seyfried comes face to face with a big bad werewolf in ‘Red Riding Hood,’ in theaters March 11, and the 25-year-old star calls the film “inspiring,” “haunted,” “dark” and “kind of weird.”

“She’s a heroine in a very, very, very old, classic story, and so to take that on is a responsibility, but it’s also super fun,” Amanda says of her medieval character. “It’s more interesting to play very intrigued and kind of terrified at the same time – it gives a lot of cool angles to each scene you wouldn’t normally see.”

‘Twilight’ director Catherine Hardwicke gives the classic fairytale a horror-movie twist with Amanda as Valerie, a beautiful young girl living in a village that hides a terrifying secret: A werewolf prowls the surrounding forest, and the townsfolk maintain an uneasy truce by providing a monthly animal sacrifice.

When the beast takes a human life, the townsfolk recruit famed werewolf hunter Father Solomon (Gary Oldman) to help them kill it. As the death toll rises, Solomon declares that one of the villagers must be the wolf. Torn between a brooding outsider (Shiloh Fernandez) and her arranged suitor (Max Irons), Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast, making her both suspect…and bait.

“Being able to hear an animal speak is beyond imagination,” says Amanda. “When the wolf speaks to [Valerie] for the first time, she’s shocked beyond belief and is trying to make sense of it, — but also is so terrified because it’s communicating in a way where she’s understanding that this wolf knows her.”

As for working with ‘Twilight’ director Hardwicke, Amanda beams, “She’s really passionate. I don’t know where she gets her energy, but she knows everything inside and out. She’s so thorough.”

Yay, Amanda is on another cover and now it’s the April 2011 issue of Marie Claire (UK). She looks so incredible on the cover and I just love it. You can watch the cover in the gallery and hopefully we will get a better quality of it soon.

We have also found a behind the scenes video of Amanda at the photoshoot for the magazine, she is so amazing and looks beautiful. Can’t wait to get my hands on that shoot, it will be amazing. You can watch the bts video in the video archive over below and view the captures in the gallery. Enjoy!

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As Chelsa told you guys Amanda is on the cover of the March iussie of Interview magazine and she looks absolutley amazing. I have added a bigger cover photo to the gallery and guess what I found, seven high quality photoshoot outtakes from the cover shoot. I just love this shoot, it’s so incredible and Amanda is beautiful.

I have also added a behind the scene video to our video archive and captures have been added to the gallery. You can read a part of the magazine interview too under the cut, enjoy!

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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.

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Fans have been clamoring for information about the Catherine Hardwicke-helmed, Amanda Seyfried-starring “Red Riding Hood.” And when the film hits theaters next year, Seyfried promises it will be nothing like the story they heard as children. This tale is a lot, lot darker.

” ‘Red Riding Hood’ is a classic fairy tale that we all know, and what fans can expect from this version of the story is that it’s basically just a jumping-off point. Catherine Hardwicke has just completely turned this story into something edgy and gothic and dark, and she’s clearly somebody that’s very capable of turning something, everything into an extraordinary world, as we’ve seen before,” Seyfried said about the film in an interview with “The Seven,” which premiered a trailer for the flick Tuesday (November 16).

“And also there’s a romance aspect to the film, which isn’t in the fairy tale … a lot of romance and a lot of danger,” she continued. “There’s a wolf at the center of the story, and it’s exciting ’cause it’s a whodunit.”

Sure, the fairy tale that the flick is based on is plenty scary, but Seyfried reveals that whatever frightening elements were there to begin with have gotten much more frightening under Hardwicke’s supervision, and thanks to a cast that includes Gary Oldman and Julie Christie.

“Fans will be surprised by the tone of the film,” she explained. “Catherine just completely throws it into this dark world, and it’s a little scarier than it was meant to be when it was written. We had this freedom to go far with it, so whatever preconceptions the audience has, they should throw it out the door.”

Fianlly they have released the trailer for Red Riding Hood and a poster, the movie looks so freaking incredible. I have added HD screen captures of the trailer to the gallery, thanks to Kyleigh for sending them to me. I have also uploaded the trailer to our video archive, you can view it at SeyfriedClips.com, you can also watch it below the cut in this post.

Set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family’s displeasure.

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The new issue of Entertainment Weekly that was released on November 12, 2010 had a footage preview of Amanda’s upcoming movie Red Riding Hood. Thanks to Kelly for the amazing scans! You can view a HQ scan in the gallery. Amanda looks so great in it and I can’t wait to see this movie.

We also found a small video preview with some scenes from the movie. You can view the MTV commercial below. The full preview will be shown at MTV’s The Seven on Monday 5pm/4c. Enjoy!

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