Everybody has an ABBA earworm that they know by coronary heart—however Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried has at the very least one which she’d be glad to by no means hear once more. “The ‘Voulez-Vous’ tune on this scene is simply so traumatic,” the Emmy winner mentioned whereas revisiting clips from her profession with Self-importance Honest. “We spent so lengthy studying this choreography, and I can pretend being a very good dancer—I didn’t on this. I used to be simply dangerous…. It’s like, the one ABBA tune that I simply by no means wanna hear.”
Though she’s urgent skip on an ABBA monitor or two, Seyfried admitted that 2008’s Mamma Mia! “is the film that modified my life,” including, “I went from getting visitor stars, doing small motion pictures for essentially the most half, to being the front-and-center character in a large, large film. I set to work with all these unimaginable individuals. Meryl Streep is my mom.”
The actor additionally set to work with three high-profile males, one among whom is her character’s organic father—Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgård. Though his true identification is rarely revealed, Seyfried has picked her favourite. “I all the time secretly hoped it was Stellan that was actually her father—Invoice,” she informed VF. “He was the one who appeared the least more likely to wish to have youngsters, and I feel from realization to acceptance…there’s a scene that was reduce [with] a tune known as ‘Title of the Recreation,’ and we sing it collectively…. I simply actually cherished that second with him.” Seyfried added, “We truly did a film proper after the place he performed my boyfriend, so strive that on.”
In her stroll down reminiscence lane, Seyfried additionally recalled auditioning for the position of Karen in Imply Women—an element Blake Vigorous was additionally up for—taking pictures Jennifer’s Physique alongside Megan Fox, singing reside for Les Misérables (“I want I might do it over again”), and begging for a second season taking part in defamed Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout. Watch the total video above.
