Amanda Seyfried Regrets Nude Scene at Age 19: ‘I Didn’t Want to Upset Anybody’
usmagazine.comAmanda Seyfried revealed that she regrets not having the courage to push back against the pressure to do nudity as a young actress early in her career.“Being 19, walking around without my underwear on – like, are you kidding me?
How did I let that happen?” Seyfried, now 36, said in an interview with Porter published on Tuesday, August 9. “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.”The Dropout star started her career on soap operas, appearing on As the World Turns and All My Children in the early 2000s.
After Mean Girls was released in spring 2004, Seyfried suddenly had a booming career, booking TV shows including Veronica Mars and Big Love as well as R-rated movies like American Gun and Alpha Dog.Though Seyfried didn’t name-check the project where she felt pressured to take off her clothes — and still considers herself “pretty unscathed” for coming of age in 2000s Hollywood — the Emmy nominee explained that her career is different now because she is confident in herself.“There’s a respect level that I have never felt so fully around me,” she explained. “It has nothing to do with any level of fame or recognition or critical acclaim.
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