The Golden Age of Amanda Seyfried

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

From Mean Girls to Mamma Mia! to First Reformed, actor Amanda Seyfried has repeatedly displayed her versatility as a performer. She does so again in David Fincher’s Mank, playing 1920s and '30s screen star Marion Davies. In celebration of her excellent performance, we sit with Seyfried to discuss the interiors of Davies (6:53), her early years working in the industry (13:13), the joy of making Mean Girls (15:26), and why she moved to Los Angeles at 18 (21:17). Then, she reflects on the parallels between 1930s Hollywood and 2021 Hollywood (36:08), how she found her footing, (41:51) and where she'd like to go in the years ahead (45:32).

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:06.0	This is D easy. I'm Sam Fregoso. Welcome to the show. Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hey everyone. Thanks for being here. Today I am joined by actor Amanda Seyfred.
0:48.0	Throughout the 2000 you have undoubtedly enjoyed Amanda's work.
0:53.9	Whether it's in big pictures like Mean Girls, Mama Mia,
0:57.8	or Dear John, TV shows like Big Love or Veronica Mars or even smaller independent projects like Chloe and
1:07.0	first reformed. By the way let me throw in a recommendation if you haven't seen first reformed. That's a great movie and
1:15.4	Amanda is great in it and so for 15 years now I think Amanda has demonstrated
1:22.0	this kind of impressive range and her latest performance is just further proof of that which comes in David Fincher's Manck.
1:33.0	Set in 1930s Hollywood, it tells the story of drunken screenwriter Herman J Mankowitz,
1:40.0	played by Gary Oldman, as he races to finish what would become Citizen Kane.
1:46.4	Through Herman's hazy memory we meet Marion Davies, played by Seyfred, the 1920s and 30 screen star better known today as the
1:56.8	mistress of newspaper magnet William Randolph Hurst.
2:00.8	Here's a clip from the trailer.
2:03.0	May? It's Orson Wells.
2:08.0	Of course it is.
2:11.0	I think it's time we talk.
2:14.0	What is it the writer says?
2:16.0	Tell the story you know.
2:20.0	Oh, everyone.
2:22.0	Make yourself to home Mr. Mankowitz or shall I call you Herman.
2:26.5	Please call me Mank. Mank. Mank. Mank, Mank. Mank.
2:30.0	This is Herman Mankowitz, but where to call him Manchowitz? Herman Manchowitz.
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