Amanda Seyfried was scared ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ would tank her career — and she’d ‘never work again’

nypost.com:

Amanda Seyfried in the Marvel Universe? Mamma Mia!The actress recently opened up about turning down the part of Gamora in the original “Guardians of the Galaxy,” a role that later went to Oscar winner Zoé Saldaña.

Seyfried admitted that she viewed the movie as a risk to her career at the time — but she was wrong. “Being a part of the first Marvel movie that bombs ain’t good for your career,” she said on Thursday’s episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. “I thought that because this was about a talking tree and a talking raccoon that it was gonna be Marvel’s first bomb and that Chris Pratt and I would never work again.

I was wrong.”But the “Mean Girls” alum has nothing but respect for the franchise’s director, James Gunn.“[He’s] a genius and he’s fun and he’s a wonderful filmmaker, and he can make anything work,” Seyfried gushed. “But I was way too scared.

I was at a precarious moment in my career, and I didn’t want to suffer for the work.”The actress also confessed she wasn’t on board for the intense makeup routine that went into playing a green alien.“I was really scared of the idea of being stuck and painted a different color because of the amount of time that the ‘X-Men’ people had been, ‘cause I was working out with the same trainer that trained a bunch of people who were doing ‘X-Men,’” Seyfried continued.The actress added that she didn’t want to live in London “for six months out of the year” either and had another film lined up.“There was another movie that I really wanted to do with Seth MacFarlane called ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West,'” she added. “It felt like a really good opportunity.”Looking back, Seyfried made it clear that movies that require special effects — including heavy makeup — are not.