You can also watch an interview with CBS.com here

The actress has just left Gallup, N.M., in her rearview mirror as she heads to Santa Fe to film her newest project, a comedy with Seth MacFarlane dubbed “A Million Ways to Die in the West,” which MacFarlane also wrote and is directing. Seyfried’s best friend Alex and her beloved Australian shepherd Finn (the reason they’re driving; the dog can’t fly) are along for the ride as the actress conducts a phone interview with WWD. “It’s eight hours in a car,” she said with a laugh. “It seems like a perfect time to do an interview. To do every interview I’ll ever have.”

The roughly 900-mile journey from Los Angeles doesn’t faze her, although the abundance of firearms along the way might. “They sell guns everywhere in this part of the country,” she said. “The guy at the gas station was raving about his Magnum, whatever that is.”

But, as Seyfried says, “I like to be in the driver’s seat.”

And that she is. Seyfried has just signed on as the face of Very Irresistible Givenchy, replacing Liv Tyler in the role. She is also the face of Clé de Peau Beauté. Seyfried is a longtime fan of the fashion house, wearing a purple spaghetti-strapped dress to the 2012 Tony Awards and attending the house’s fall ready-to-wear show in March. Her response when they offered her the deal? “F–k yeah,” she said bluntly. “It’s an honest collaboration. I’m proud to be a part of [the brands I’m involved with] because what they do is really cool, especially Givenchy — they’re so artistic. And I feel like I have a foot in the fashion industry now.”

She has just finished shooting the ad campaign — which includes both print and TV. TV was shot by Cédric Klapisch, and print by Glen Luchford; the campaign was styled by Riccardo Tisci. Print will begin running in October fashion, beauty and lifestyle magazines in the U.S.; the TV will bow at launch. Thierry Maman, global president of Parfums Givenchy, noted that the actress’ “style and elegance” an d high profile made her a natural pick for the youthful Very Irresistible Givenchy. Nicholas Munafo, U.S. president for LVMH Fragrance Brands, concurs. “Amanda is a chic, sexy woman who is a perfect fit for Givenchy.”

But don’t look for an Amanda Seyfried celebrity fragrance anytime soon. “They’re hard work, and the more you do, they take away from your work as an actor. I’m doing these two campaigns because I care about them and the people involved. They’re great things to be attached to.”

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When we heard the rumors around a Mean Girls musical, we immediately started casting the parts. But one thing we didn’t account for was the idea that Amanda Seyfried might not want to reprise her role as Karen.

After all, what about Karen would make Seyfried not want to play her? She’s pretty. She doesn’t have to think, like, ever. She gets to wear pink on Wednesdays. She has ESPN, and her boobs can predict the weather. Or rather, her boobs can tell you about the current weather conditions. So why would Seyfried want to walk away from the character who first put her on our radar? The temptation of the dark side, perhaps?

Seyfried tells Allure, “I desperately want to be Regina.” So our question for you is: Would this work? Could Seyfried’s big doe eyes contain the ferocity necessary to be queen bee? More importantly, could Seyfried convincingly play the girl who can’t be killed (even when hit by a bus)?

Although Seyfried’s career has definitely sky rocketed since her days as Karen, we’re not so sure we could handle a switch up within the plastics squad. What are your thoughts? Who would you cast as Regina George in a Mean Girls musical?

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Now that we know that all is good between Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried, can we suggest they work together again?

Seyfried says she would love to do a musical—on Broadway!

“I’d like to do something where there’s one character who has one big song—a soprano song—but I don’t know what that would be,” she recently told me.

Remember when Anne was first nominated for Les Misérables?

Seyfried says a big dream would be starring in Wicked, but she doesn’t think she has the vocal chops. “To be honest with you, nobody would put me in that,” she said. “I would have to take another two years of voice lessons before I could do that.”

Perhaps Wicked with Seyfried as Glinda and Hathaway as Elphaba?

Seyfried was in talks to make her Broadway debut last year in Neil LaBute’s play The Shape of Things. “I wanted to do it, but it didn’t end up working out,” she said. “We had a director but no costar. But I gotta get on stage, man. I’d love it.”

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Thanks to Ferres for posting the link to this interview. Going ahead and posting it here for any that may not check the comments. You can read the interview  or you can  listen to  it  here.

One of the many films to premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was directors RobEpstein and Jeffrey Friedman’sLinda Lovelace pic Lovelace.  The film stars AmandaSeyfried as the titular porn star who rose to prominence following 1972’s Deep Throat (the first pornographic feature film to be a mainstream success).  Lovelace would eventually go on to claim that her husband (played by Peter Sarsgaard) physically and verbally abused her and coerced her into the pornography business.   The film also stars JunoTemple, Wes Bently, Sharon Stone, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, and James Franco as Hugh Hefner.

The day after the premiere, I sat down with Amanda Seyfried for an exclusive interview.  We talked about how she got involved in the project, how the film shows both sides of the story, whether or not she was nervous to play Lovelace, her Sundance experience, the incredible supporting cast, the success of Les Miserables, future projects, and a lot more.  Hit the jump what she had to say.

 

How are you doing today?

Amanda Seyfried:  I’m OK, how are you?

I’m good; I just saw your movie this morning at the Eccles.

Seyfried:  OK, I was there.

I thought it was really, really well done.  I didn’t know what I was getting going in.  I wasn’t sure where the story was going or…

Seyfried:  They tricked you.

They didn’t trick me.

Seyfried:  They kind of do, they tricked me.

Oh really, so they told you originally it was something else and then…

Seyfried:  No, but you forget…when I first saw the rough cut of it, I forgot that it was not linear and when they kept going with the story I was like, “They cut out that?  They cut out that?  Oh my god, what is this movie?”  And then I remembered that they slice it in, they kind of like throw the discs in when you’re not expecting it and show you what really happened and I didn’t realize that.

I think that’s one of the really cool parts of this movie is that it shows you this- when you’re watching it you’re like it’s this great thing and everyone is happy, but then the smoke and mirrors, you can see through the facade and you get to what really the story is.

Seyfried:  Yeah. 

Talk a little bit about how much you knew about the story prior to being approached for the material.

Seyfried:  She was famous being able to deep throat really well and she was a porn star, just another porn star to me.  I remember the first time I met with Rob [Epstein] and Jeff [Freidman] they showed me this massive book, this massive collection of research and photographs, and they had all these DVDs of footage, and I was just blown away because of course everybody has a story, everybody is three dimensional .  I found it fascinating that the idea of her, it’s all very much a general idea of who she is based on the fact that she was a porn star.  But she wasn’t really a porn star, she wanted to be an actress and she had a really intense, violent relationship with her husband and her husband essentially just coerced her into this world and she was exploited and she was left with essentially nothing.  I think that’s an amazing- I think that’s not what people expect to hear at all.  She tried so hard to be heard and I felt like that’s part of the reason I wanted to make this.  It was a weird era.  It was the sexual revolution and porn was not what it is today.  It’s all a very interesting story and I think it is really well done.  You give the audience that idea, you validate their general idea of her, and then you slide in the reality.

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Seyfried delights as this young, bubbly woman who slowly finds the attention she craves as a porn star.

The woman the world knew as the notorious, libidinous Linda Lovelace was never as happy or sexually empowered as we believed. That’s the thesis of Lovelace, a smart if somewhat familiar biopic by directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, who previously collaborated on the far more unconventional Allen Ginsberg portrait Howl. A strong cast topped by a quite fine Amanda Seyfried as the infamous 1970s porn star helps make this period piece both breezy and weighty at the same time, no easy feat.

Premiering at Sundance, Lovelace should gain traction because of the scandalous subject matter — she was, after all, the star of the incredibly popular porn film Deep Throat — and the marquee presence of Seyfried. A movie like Boogie Nights (which grossed $43m worldwide in 1997) demonstrates that films set in the world of pornography can be moderate hits, and certainly this biopic’s lively ‘70s soundtrack and fun retro clothing could help its marketing push.

Lovelace focuses on the relationship between Linda Boreman (Seyfried) and Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), the somewhat-sketchy man who discovered the young woman in her early 20s and coaxed her into starring in a porn film that made her an international sensation. (As the film explains it, Lovelace was the name given to her by the producers, figuring it sounded sexier.) These events are told in colourful, giddy flashbacks, highlighting the loving bond between the couple and her unlikely rise to stardom.

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