Amanda Seyfried Never Thought She Would Play A Cop: “The Industry Sees You In A Certain Way Through The Years”

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Amanda Seyfried didn’t ever think she would play a cop. The star of Peacock police thriller Long Bright River broke out in hit movies like Mean Girls, Mamma Mia!

and Jennifer’s Body, but she says she “put limits on myself” until receiving a crucial note from Broadway director Leigh Silverman several years back. “I never thought that I was going to get the opportunity to play a cop,” she told Deadline, shortly after the launch of Long Bright River and on the eve of its Series Mania competition premiere. “I think there are certain limits that we all have as actors and I think I put these limits on myself.

The industry sees you in a certain way through the years and I saw myself as someone who would not be able to have some kind of authority.

I am slight and I was young for so long, until I wasn’t, and I think I just didn’t see it, and now I feel like I can play anything.” Seyfried traces this shift to the note from Tony Award-nominee Silverman, who she says told her to “get on my front foot because I was just playing this all back footed.” “It completely turned me around,” added Seyfried. “It made me look for these new characters.” Seyfried was therefore attracted to the three-dimensional nature of Long Bright River lead Mickey Fitzpatrick, a Philadelphia police officer with shades of Kate Winslet’s Mare of Easttown lead working in a high crime neighborhood who takes it upon herself to investigate the murder of three women and disappearance of her sister.