Amanda SeyfriedShe admitted that she regrets not having had the courage to resist the pressure to do nudity early in her career.
“Being 19, walking around without my underwear on – like, are you kidding me? How did I let that happen?” Seyfried, now 36, said in an interview with PorterPublished Tuesday, August 9th. “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.”
The DropoutStar started her career in soap operas, where she appeared on As the World Turns All My ChildrenIn the early 2000s. After Mean GirlsSeyfried was first released in spring 2004. Seyfried quickly had a booming career and booked TV shows including Veronica Mars Big LoveR-rated movies such as American Gun Alpha Dog.
Though Seyfried didn’t name-check the project where she felt pressured to take off her clothes — and still considers herself “pretty unscathed” for coming of age in 2000s Hollywood — the Emmy nominee explained that her career is different now because she is confident in herself.
“There’s a respect level that I have never felt so fully around me,” she explained. “It has nothing to do with any level of fame or recognition or critical acclaim. Whatever it is, it’s not because of Mank, it’s not because of The Dropout, it’s not about having seen my movies. I’m respected because I’m 36 years old and I know who the f–k I am.”
Though she feels valued now, it took a long time to build up her self-esteem to feel OK asking for certain things — like a stylist. In a February appearance Jimmy Kimmel Live, Les MisStar joked that she didn’t know the red carpet fashion rules when she started her career at The Oscars Mean Girls premiere. She explained that the flashbulbs of the cameras made her dress see-through, which she didn’t realize until she saw the photos.
When asked why the movie studio didn’t help coordinate “something to wear,” Seyfried said, “I slipped through the cracks because I didn’t ever ask for anything, because I thought I was in the way, which is not the way I want to raise my daughter, for sure. … But people liked me because I was easy.”
The star shares Nina, a 5-year-old daughter, and Thomas, a 2-year-old son, with their husband. Thomas SadoskiShe married, in March 2017. The family lives far from Tinseltown, on a farm in Hudson County. They only commute to Los Angeles when necessary.
“Thomas comes with her when he can, but he’s equally adept at being a hands-on dad and taking care of business at home when she’s busy and he’s not,” a source exclusively told Us WeeklyMarch. “They try to time their schedules that way, as well as making plenty of time for date nights and trips away by themselves.”
