Amanda Seyfried Got Naked On Set When She Was Only 19 Because She "Didn't Want To Upset Anybody"
It's not uncommon for young actresses to feel pressured to film in the nude, and Amanda Seyfried is opening up about her experience as a 19-year-old in the industry who was doing whatever she could to keep her job.
One of Amanda Seyfried's first big breaks was her role as Karen in the cult classic Mean Girls, but since then her career has grown exponentially. Her latest role is in The Dropout, in which she plays infamous entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes. She opened up in a recent interview with Porter about how her career has grown and what she's learned along the way.
Amanda Seyfried Got Naked on Set When She Was Only 19 Because She "Didn't Want to Upset Anybody"
Amanda has been nominated for an Emmy award for her performance in The Dropout, but her career wasn't always so easy. She often worried that she didn't have much to offer in the world of acting when she was in her twenties; she even hated "everything that came out of my mouth." She aimed for steady work rather than big-time recognition.
“It’s kind of surreal that we’re here now, that we got nominated, and I got nominated; I got singled out," she said. "I didn’t spend any part of my career singled out, ever. [I had] no expectation of being singled out, and that’s partly my self-deprecating nature. Never expecting anything great, preparing for the worst, but just continuing to walk on my path.”
When she was only 19 years old, though, she did some things in her career that she would never do today.
“Being 19, walking around without my underwear on – like, are you kidding me? How did I let that happen?” she pondered. “Oh, I know why: I was 19 and I didn’t want to upset anybody, and I wanted to keep my job. That’s why.”
She is grateful that she escaped that era of Hollywood "pretty unscathed," but she still talks about the precarious positions she found herself in when she was on set. Things may have been different if she had access to the intimacy coordinators that many actors have today when they're filming delicate scenes.
Now that she's gotten older and experienced a lot more in Hollywood, she feels more confident in herself than ever.
“When I meet somebody who’s younger, like in their twenties, and they get rejected… by a job or something like that, it crushes them completely for a minute,” she said. “Nothing can crush me completely, when it comes to work. I’m uncrushable! Not one thing can crush my life, unless it has to do with my family."
She lives in upstate New York on a farm with her husband Thomas Sadoski and their two children. They have rescue animals on their property and she manages to stay away from the grind of Hollywood and New York City. She and her husband have an apartment in the city, but they only use it for work whenever they need to. They're perfectly happy keeping to themselves on their farm.