Amanda Seyfried is looking back at her time playing Elizabeth Holmes on The Dropout.
The 36-year-old actress discussed her role as the Theranos CEO during an interview with Jared Leto for Variety‘s Actors on Actors series, revealing that she wasn’t permitted to contact Elizabeth for the duration of their shoot. Click inside to read more… Amanda began by mentioning that Jared had actually presented Elizabeth Holmes with a Woman of the Year Award, asking if he remembered his interaction with her. “Yeah, of course I do,” he replied. “I had heard her speak in Palo Alto.
She was great onstage. She was incredibly smart, funny — and then I met her after that, and I liked her a lot. But no indication that things weren’t great in her life and at the company.
And then I gave her an award. And now I’m here with you. We stayed in touch after that and talked a few times, but my experience with her was always quite lovely.
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