Amanda Seyfried Says Mother Roles Increased ‘Once I Popped Out a Baby,’ but ‘That’s Hollywood for You’
variety.comEllise Shafer Amanda Seyfried reflected on being cast as a mother at the Berlin Film Festival press conference for her new film “Seven Veils,” saying that “it seems like once I popped out a baby, I was just playing mothers.” However, the mom of two does feel the roles she’s been given have “become way richer.” In “Seven Veils,” Seyfried plays Jeanine, a theater director who is forced to deal with repressed trauma as she prepares a production of the opera “Salome.” When asked if she related to the character, Seyfried said she sympathized with Jeanine’s struggles as a mother. “In my career, it’s still a bit new to play a mother.
It seems like once I popped out a baby, I was just playing mothers, and that’s Hollywood for you. But I do think that the roles have become way richer and definitely challenging in ways that I didn’t have earlier in my career,” Seyfried said. “I felt like Jeanine, specifically as a mother, trying to figure out where she stands in her life as a parent and as a wife who is so on the precipice of separating from her husband — she’s kind of hanging on a thread everywhere and not being taken as seriously as she’d like to in her career, just wanting more.” Seyfried continued, “With every really good script and really fleshed-out character, I always am able to reflect on my own life.
That’s just a side effect of my job, which I kind of love.” She added that the character of Jeanine is “very human, and she’s dealing with things as they come and she’s not a perfect person.” “I loved showing sides of her that weren’t attractive,” Seyfried said.
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