Amanda Seyfried
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Oscar-nominated actor, ‘Mean Girls’ alumnus and star of the new film ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Amanda Seyfried is our latest dream diner. And the genie has a cat tail this week.
‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ is out in UK cinemas on Friday 20 February.
Follow Amanda on Instagram @mingey
Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 5 Feb.
Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast
Follow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.
And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.
Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.
Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the off-menu podcast, taking the pasta dough of conversation, putting it through the pasta machine of humour and making the tagliatelli of |
| 0:21.5 | podcasting. That is Ed Gamble. My name is James Acastle. Together we own a dream restaurant. |
| 0:25.3 | And every single week, we invite a guest, asking the favourite ever start, a main course dessert, |
| 0:28.7 | side dish and drink, not in that order. And this week, our guest is Amanda Seifred. |
| 0:34.7 | Yes, a wonderful actor, James, of course. One actor, man. |
| 0:38.5 | Yep, so many things. |
| 0:40.3 | Mank. |
| 0:41.2 | Got an Academy Award nomination for Mank. |
| 0:44.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:46.5 | Mean girls. |
| 0:47.5 | Mean girls, of course. |
| 0:48.9 | Mamma Mia. |
| 0:49.8 | Mamma Mia, of course. |
| 0:51.1 | And... |
| 0:51.7 | The new film that Amanda will be talking to us about, |
| 0:54.6 | The Testament of Anley, or the Woman Clothed by the Sun with the Moon under her feet. It sounds fantastic. It does. It's about... I've never heard of Anley. Didn't know who Anley was. Somebody who founded the Shakers, which is a religious sect. It's an incredible story. We're going to talk to Amanda more about it. We are. |
| 1:09.9 | Learn more about it. |
| 1:10.6 | And I'm very much looking forward to seeing the film. |
| 1:12.4 | Yes, very much so. |
| 1:14.0 | The Testament of Van Lee is It's an incredible story. We're going to talk to Amanda more about it. We are. Learn more about it. And I'm very much looking forward to seeing the film. |
| 1:12.4 | Yes, very much so. The Testament of Van Lee is in cinemas on the 20th of February this year. We will also, of course, be talking to Amanda about her dream menu, James. Oh, yes. I thought we would. Yeah. However, if Amanda says the secret ingredient, which is an ingredient we deemed to be unacceptable, we will have to kick around the dream restaurant. Yes, we will. And the secret ingredient this week is Calteen bars. Calteen bars is from mean girls. Yeah, it's from mean girls. Yeah, it's from mean girls. So probably unlikely. It's not going to come up because I don't think it's a real thing, but it's something from mean girls. |
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