Amanda Seyfried is Shaking Things Up With The Testament of Ann Lee and The Housemaid
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Rebecca talks with Amanda Seyfried, who has two films coming out over two weeks: she stars as a wealthy woman with secrets in The Housemaid, and as the leader of the Shaker religious movement in the ambitious epic The Testament of Ann Lee. The actress discusses the confidence she needed to have in herself, along with the challenges of learning the intense dance style used in the latter. "The nature of learning those choreographed moves, it's a real bitch," she says. She also talks about the challenges of overnight fame, which she's witnessed with her Housemaid co-star Sydney Sweeney. Plus, she reveals her obsession with taxidermy and her love of crocheting.
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| 0:00.0 | Little Gold Men podcast sponsors include 20th Century Studios film Avatar, Fire, and Ash, |
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| 0:25.6 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:31.6 | My guest today is Amanda Seifred, |
| 0:34.6 | who stars in Mona Fastfolds the Testament of Anne Lee as the real-life founder |
| 0:39.3 | of the Shaker religious movement. |
| 0:41.6 | Anne Lee is a musical, but don't expect to see Seyfried perform the same way as she did in |
| 0:46.8 | Mama Mia or Les Miserables. |
| 0:49.0 | The film's music and choreography are unlike anything I've seen, and Amanda and I talked about how the rhythmic singing |
| 0:55.2 | and dancing she had to do brought her closer to her character's state of devotion. |
| 1:17.7 | Amanda and I caught up a couple of weeks ago while she was promoting another movie she has out this month, The Housemaid. |
| 1:26.9 | We chatted about these very different films, the advice she'd give to her Housemade co-star, Sidney-Sweeney, and her extremely niche collection of taxidermy. |
| 1:28.1 | Let's dig in. |
| 1:33.8 | Hi, Amanda. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:39.1 | I can't imagine how busy of a time this is for you. Two movies coming out over two weeks. |
| 1:49.4 | I'm just curious to start off how that feels for you. This whole experience in the last couple of months has been really just surreal because I don't think I've ever bounced back and forth geographically this way in my life. |
| 1:55.5 | And I've been able to stay just very grateful for the fact that these two movies are not only are they two |
| 2:03.4 | really really couldn't be more opposite movies but i'm just as proud of my performance in housemaid as i |
| 2:12.1 | am as my performance in anne lee because i i played these incredibly dynamic people and I had an |
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