For Amanda Seyfried, who played both a popular girl in the trend in Mean girls and a biotech fraud in The failuretaking up the role of a police officer in Philadelphia Long clear river Is another challenge in her resume of eclectic roles.
“To be honest, there is a big challenge in both,” Seyfried Yahoo Entertainment said about comedy versus drama. “They are both difficult. They are both very rewarding. “
In Long clear riverA limited series that will premiere on Peacock on 13 March and is based on the bestseller book with the same name by Liz Moore, Seyfried plays a single mother investigating multiple deaths of non -housing women in a city destroyed by opioid addiction. Her sister is perhaps one of them.
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Although she said that comedy is an ‘art form’ whose challenge ‘everything is about timing’, lives her latest character, Mickey, in ‘dark circumstances and more realistic circumstances [and is] Respond as more a even person not like an idiot, like Karen, “she said, referring to her Mean girls character. “A sweet idiot.”
In her role as a Beat -agent, Seyfried wanted to portray a real person who is not a superhero law enforcement officer – “such as Barbara Badass Detective”, as Showrunner and executive producer Nikki Toscano told Yahoo Entertainment.
That is why the Emmy-winning actress, who is also an executive producer in the series, has chosen to skip hardcore training sessions.
“She doesn’t have time for the gym on this point in her life. She is a mother. She is a single mother. She has to do, you know, pick-ups and drop-offs, “said Seyfried. “Her child’s father is useless and she works her ass at work as an agent, which is a frightening job. And it just had to be realistic. “
‘I think that’s what [Toscano] means by Barbara … what is it called? Barbara Beef Cake Badass, “added Seyfried. “She is uncomfortable, and I like that.”
Both Toscano and Moore praised Seyfried for her view of the character. Moore, who is also an executive producer and writer in the show, said that although Seyfried was ‘physically different from the physical description of the character’, the actress ‘such anger and passion’ in the role.
Toscano repeated that and said that Seyfried “brought a fire to the role that was not always on the page.”
“She wanted to play someone on the street day in and day out and wondered if they would come home their child,” Toscano added.
The show itself shines a clear spotlight on women – not only on Mickey, but also on the victims of the crimes. Women also played a major role behind the camera, something that was not lost on the co-star Nicholas Pinnock from Seyfried.
“All episodes were directed by Women (that is a scoop in my 40 years of acting),” The actor, who plays the former partner and friend of Seyfried in the show, posted January 30 on Instagram.
“It’s a shame that we have to have this conversation, because it really shouldn’t be a talk point,” Pinnock told Yahoo Entertainment. “It’s just something that should have been the norm so long ago, in the same way that it was the norm that the most creatives and the directors have been men.”
He described the feeling of having female directors, including Toscano, who kept all eight episodes of the Limited series, he said there was a lack of “bravoure” and a “feeling of ego that was missing”.
“And I really hope that we will go out of this female director,” Pinnock added. “It should just be a director because there is no such thing as a ‘male’ director. It should just be director, and that’s it. “
“F *** yes,” said Seyfried.
While the actress appreciates that she has been able to portray roles in the comedy and the drama spectrum, she acknowledges the challenges that are also accompanied by playing a character like Mickey, who is in ‘Dire Straits’.
“It’s hard to cry and emote and to scream and be frustrated. It’s hard to do that often, time and time again, “Seyfried said. “Sometimes you just don’t have the energy to continue, because it takes a lot of energy to cry hysterically.”
That said, she added that both types of rolls are ultimately worth it: “I love my work.”
Long clear river Starts to stream on Peacock on March 13.
