Amanda Seyfried Recalls Filming Nude Scenes at 19: ‘How Did I Let That Happen?’

glamour.com:

Porter magazine, recalls feeling uncomfortable filming nude scenes at 19 years old. “Being 19, walking around without my underwear on—like, are you kidding me?

How did I let that happen?” the actor . “Oh, I know why: I was 19 and I didn’t want to upset anybody, and I wanted to keep my job.

That’s why.”Earlier this year Seyfried recalled feeling “” by boys who asked her if it was raining after she filmed 2004’s Mean Girls. (For context, her character, Karen Smith, claimed she could predict the weather with her breasts.)“I was, like, 18 years old," in May. "It was just gross.”  Relatively speaking, she tells Porter, she came out of the pre-#MeToo era “pretty unscathed.” But now, more than ever, she feels a level of respect on sets that she hadn’t known as a younger actor. “It has nothing to do with any level of fame or recognition or critical acclaim," she notes. "Whatever it is, it’s not because of Mank, it’s not because of it’s not about having seen my movies.

I’m respected because I’m 36 years old, and I know who the fuck I am.”Her confidence comes from age and perspective, she says, especially as a mom.