Amanda Seyfried is opening up about her new show, The Dropout. During an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday (March 1), the 36-year-old actress discussed what it was like playing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. Click inside to read more… Seth asked if Amanda had known much about Elizabeth prior to taking on the role and she shared that she had actually listened to The Dropout, the podcast upon which the show is based.
While she had her judgements about Elizabeth after listening to the show, she decided upon taking the role that she had to come at her story from a different angle. “What a complicated person to be able to play,” the actress told Seth. “I feel so lucky.
I don’t know anything about her, but her story is as fascinating, or more, than it was before.” Amanda revealed that she felt a deeper kinship with Elizabeth after being on one of the show’s sets for the first time. “We’re essentially the same age… I have to remember this is a set, it was designed by a production designer we had a set dresser,” she acknowledged. “But I remember it really connected me to her because we were contemporaries, we were brought up in the same world where the same movies were playing, like we knew the same music… It really tied me to her.” Check out the full interview down below!
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