Amanda Seyfried: Why Did Her Career Go Straight Down The Shitter?

This thread from 10 years ago is a good benchmark of the promise young Amanda once held.

She’s 35. She had a nicer career but has now been put out to pasture.

Emma Stone, basically.

But isn't more usual than not that you shine brightly but briefly? Few stars last forever. That's why we're always talking about the few who do.

There are dozens of actors who could have sung Cosette better than she did. She was terrible.

It’s hard for her to get much else done with Justin Long’s dick in her mouth.

She was basically typecast as a pretty young ingenue or a dumb teen blonde. Being gorgeous can be a huge advantage in Hollywood and also a major liability.

However, she is at that age during which she can “take time off to raise a family” and, like Michelle Pfeiffer, return to Hollywood in her 40s looking ‘ageless’ and get some attention for that, and give lots of interviews about how her family is more important than stardom, but now that her kids are a little older and more independent, and now that all her face work has settled, she’s ready to explore more interesting roles written for mature women.

Amanda, this is your model. Just make sure you spend your years off camera getting lots of small, subtle procedures to fool gullible people into believing you hit the genetic jackpot and are one of those lucky few white women resistant to visible aging who lives only in L.A. But if you go the extreme Meg Ryan route, you’re fucked. Gotta get lots of tiny nips and tucks and give them time to heal over and learn tricks to cover up the scars.

She looks okay in certain pictures, but I always thought she looked as if she had a touch of FAS, with her eyes slighty too far apart. Not as bad as some people, but I found it distracting. Maybe her face really did settle, since it looks fine in this picture.

[quote]Distant cousin of Gwyneth Paltrow and Gwyneth's mother Blythe Danner, through their common descent of the Danner family (a Pennsylvania Dutch [German] family).

She, Gwyneth, and Katherine Moenig (another cousin of Gywnnie) should all do a family dram-com together!

R9 I know what you mean...she is generally very pretty but the eye spacing is jussst barely so wide that it’s distracting. But I think that that has been used to her advantage in Mean Girls and other roles, when she was supposed to be very pretty but also just a little short of a full deck.

On the other hand, Tiffany Trump looks to me like Amanda Seyfried if Amanda Seyfried had chromosomal damage from inbreeding. Plus cheeseburgers.

Must've been in her much younger years, with that off look, back when she was in mean girls, because it's such a difference now.

R11 that's such a perfect comparison. I think age (thinner face) and flattering makeup has made a big difference. It definitely gave her a great look for playing that character. No denying she's pretty, just something that always jumped out at me.

Has she ever co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer? They would make an excellent mother-daughter.

Gwynnie only wishes she had that face.

She's messy bts when it comes to men. The guy she had a baby with was fucking her while on his honeymoon.

Also R10 Katherine and Amanda were both in the thriller Gone. Terrible movie, but i still enjoyed it.

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I just saw JENNIFER'S BODY--don't ask why--and Seyfried's not terrible, attempting to make sense of the nonsensical. (She's not that good, either.)

But the film is dreadful. Megan Fox (and arguably, Diablo Cody) has the career she deserves.

R17, it was bildungsroman for chicks and she was awesome in it.

I even looked up the fucking term for you, you’re welcome, cunt.

r17, aw. I love Jennifer's Body. It has the Heathers vibe with the whole indie band members selling their souls to Satan for becoming rich and famous and Amanda's character being the only one who sees right through the band's bullshit.

She never struck me as super ambitious. She's basically turned into another Ashley Judd. However, she does have some early buzz for that upcoming David Fincher Hollywood period piece Mank. Maybe a big comeback?

She's had a long career for a pretty blonde woman in Hollywood. She was never a HUGE star, and being a HUGE star is pretty much the only way you keep a steady career past age 35 in Hollywood. She had a good run and probably made enough money to live comfortably for the rest of her life. She's doing fine.

Who is the troll that keeps starting these down the shitter threads? She'll next be seen in Mank, which is expected to be a major Oscar contender.

Truthfully I was surprised she had the most high profile career of the Mean Girls cast. She was funny in it but I would never have singled her out for leading lady status.

All of the Mean Girls cast had depressingly shitty careers considering all of them were more talented than most of today's actors and actresses are.

[quote]and now, at 35, she's barely a blip on the radar.

Just now? She's always been a blip.

r23 I always found it strange she never played comedy roles after that movie. She's basic as a serious actress and reminds me of Tiffany Trump.

She could rent out space on her fivehead for advertising

Did she lez with Julianne Moore Seriously in some trash that I saw?

[Quote] All of the Mean Girls cast had depressingly shitty careers considering all of them were more talented than most of today's actors and actresses are.

I couldn't agree more.

Given everything OP listed, it didn't go "straight" down. Her look won't age well.

She's had a career most people would kill for, but didn't make it to the very top level. I wonder if she's thankful or bitter or really neither.

Looks like she has upcoming projects, though nothing "big" from what I can tell.

Amanda's done well and I don't think she'll be turned out to pasture. She's always been pretty, but a character actress at heart. Notice how she wasn't playing the Rachel McAdams part in Mean Girls or the Megan Fox part in Jennifer's Body. She's too quirky for that. I think she'll settle into interesting character roles in her 40's and 50's and have a pretty good career. She seems to have pretty good instincts as to which projects to sign on for and knows her range well enough to not make a fool of herself.

I rewatched Red Eye not long ago and it’s hard to believe Rachel McAdams played that character and Regina George. She’s definitely not limited to one type of performance.

Amanda has had a pretty remarkable career. I think of her mainly as the girl from Big Love, which was a relatively minor role, and she survived Mamma Mia! with her dignity.

She just had her second baby. She has a three-year-old, as well. That probably explains her absence.