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I’ve stumbled upon a slightly older (May 2008) article about Amanda and “Mamma Mia!”. The photoshoot image (shown below) has been added in the gallery.
IN THE HBO series “Big Love,” Amanda Seyfried plays the eldest daughter in a polygamist family of one husband and three wives. In the lavish new musical “Mamma Mia!,” based on the long-running Broadway hit, she plays the only daughter of one mother and one of three boyfriends. In the movie that features the music of ’70s band ABBA as prominently as any of its stars, Seyfried plays Sophie, the daughter of single mom Donna (Meryl Streep), who operates a small hotel on a beautiful Greek island. For Sophie’s wedding, Donna invites her BFFs (Christine Baranski, Julie Walters) who were the backup singers of her old group, Donna and the Dynamos. Meanwhile, Sophie secretly invites the three guys (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard) who may or may not be her father.
Singing was Seyfried’s first passion and she trained from age 11 to 17 in her hometown of Allentown, Pa. “When I moved to New York, I quit because I was acting regularly on ‘All My Children.’ I didn’t have time for it.”
Although Streep sang in “A Prairie Home Companion” and “Postcards From the Edge,” most of the actors were out of their comfort zone. “We were all a little bit freaked out by it,” Seyfried says. “I was the least freaked; I knew how to sing and dance and I was basically playing myself in these certain circumstances.”
But her three “daddies,” she says, were often horrified. “The look on their faces the first day they showed up to dance was just priceless. The facial expressions Colin Firth had were so funny.”
The movie, opening July 18, was shot in London and Greece. “It was so beautiful,” Seyfried says by phone from the Vancouver, Canada, set of her latest film, “Jennifer’s Body,” penned by “Juno” Oscar-winner Diablo Cody.
“But it was hectic and tiring. We worked six days a week . . . the entire company partied every time we had a day off.” (Source)
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Amanda is also featured in the August 2008 issue of Cosmo Girl. We’ve added a list of the magazines you can currently find Amanda in to the sidebar. If we’re missing something, please let us know.
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Amanda is on the cover of Teen Vogue’s August 2008 issue. We’ve added a preview of the cover and some behind the scenes photoshoot images to the gallery. We hope to have scans up soon so keep checking back.
SOUND OF MUSIC: While at the shoot, Amanda - who belts out all her own tunes in the ABBA-scored musical turned movie Mamma Mia! - sang along with the radio in between takes. Her mom, who was with her on set, joked: “I miss hearing her sing. The cats don’t though. When she hits those high notes, there’s one cat who’s so afraid…when he sees her, he goes running!”
ROCK THIS WAY: We dressed the star in lots of luxe knits, oversize tweeds, and flowery prints - grunge rock-inspired but with a feminine twist. Amanda loved the clothes and was particularly obsessed with a flirty, olive-colored D&G dress.
AMANDA, ON YOUNG HOLLYWOOD: “You never know what to expect from somebody who’s young and successful. It can really go either way. I’ve met some people who are just so freaking distraught and who don’t know how to handle it, and I’ve met some who have their head on straight and are really happy. You try to stick around them.”
AMANDA, ON BECOMING AN ACTRESS: “I just didn’t think I could do it… I’d see myself on a monitor and I would be like, Eww. Who wants to see me? Who wants to listen to that voice? I had no trust in myself that I was made for this.”
AMANDA, ON GETTING THE LEAD IN MAMMA MIA: “I was shocked when I got the role… Shocked. For someone to put their trust in me, to put all of this responsibility on me, is kind of awesome.”
AMANDA, ON FILMING IN GREECE: “As soon as we landed, Dom [Dominic Cooper, the gorgeous Brit who plays her love interest] and I hopped out of the plane, threw all of our stuff in the hotel, put on our bathing suits, ran out onto the beach, and went straight in the water. And then we turned around and we saw the choreographer, and Pierce [Brosnan] and his sons, and all these people…they all did the same thing. It was so luxurious. It blew my mind.”
AMANDA, ON PLANS FOR THE FUTURE: “If I came out with a club hit, if I were singing duets with Jesse McCartney, I think people would get the wrong idea. I’m not interested in fashion design. I’m an actress, and that’s all I want to focus on. For me, that’s just more fulfilling.” (Source)
