Amanda Seyfried has talked about her role as Linda Lovelace.

Seyfried portrays the infamous adult film star – real name Linda Boreman – in the upcoming biopic Lovelace, also starring Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody and Juno Temple.

Prior to taking on the role, Seyfriend only knew about Lovelace as a porn star who became famous for “being able to deep throat really well”. After directors Rob Epstein and Jeff Friedman showed the actress a huge collection of research and photographs as well as footage, Seyfried was “blown away”.”I found it fascinating that the idea of her, it’s all very much a general idea of who she is based on the fact that she was a porn star,” she told Collider. “But she wasn’t really a porn star, she wanted to be an actress and she had a really intense, violent relationship with her husband and her husband essentially just coerced her into this world and she was exploited and she was left with essentially nothing.

“I think that’s amazing – I think that’s not what people expect to hear at all. She tried so hard to be heard and I felt like that’s part of the reason I wanted to make this.

“It was a weird era. It was the sexual revolution and porn was not what it is today. It’s all a very interesting story and I think it is really well done. You give the audience that idea, you validate their general idea of her, and then you slide in the reality.”

Lovelace was recently screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22. No release date has yet been announced.

Watch a clip of Lovelace below:

source: digitalspy.co.uk

When Amanda Seyfried walked through the gates of Pinewood Studios in London to shoot “Les Miserables,” she was returning to the scene of her greatest triumph.

It was, after all, five years ago on the very same sound stages that she shot “Mamma Mia!” opposite Meryl Streep. That musical not only became the most successful songfest of all time by scoring $600 million at the box-office, but it turned Seyfried into a bona fide movie star.

Over the course of the last five years, the Allentown native has made very few false moves. She’s had hits (“Dear John,”“Letters To Juliet”) and a few misses (“Red Riding Hood”) but she’s always pushed herself to try new genres like sci-fi (“Now”), action (“Gone”) and noir (“Chloe.”)

Making “Les Miserables” was, she says, like coming full circle.

“I even had the same dressing room. It was the dressing room where I met (former boyfriend Dominic Cooper) for the first time. It was so crazy. We had a lot of the same crew guys. I had the same driver. It brought back a lot of great memories.”

Beyond giving Seyfried the chance to stroll down memory lane, “Les Miserables” offered the actress the opportunity to take part in a movie that’s already been named one of the year’s 10 best by the National Board of Review. The film (which opens Dec. 25) has also netted a nomination for Best Ensemble Cast by the Screen Actors Guild and is likely to be a Best Picture Oscar contender when the nominations are announced on Jan. 10.

“‘Les Miz’ is the coolest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life,” says Seyfried, 27. “It’s almost like a dream. (Co-star) Annie (Hathaway) keeps saying that, at some point, we’re all going to need to be pinched. We have all been in love with this show forever. It’s just been a great feeling having the chance to finally embody these characters that we’ve all grown up loving.”

Based on the 150-year-old novel by Victor Hugo, the stage musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg has been seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries around the globe. The show played on Broadway for 16 years and won eight Tony Awards. Read full article.