Amanda Seyfried on Playing Vulnerable and a Vixen in 'Chloe': Interview

“The more terrifying a role seems, the more fulfilling it will be in the end — and when you’re doing it.” This is how Amanda Seyfried describes the difference between playing a sweetheart — like she did this year in Dear John — to playing a vixen in this month’s Chloe, in which her title character seduces Julianne Moore.

Chloe, a suspense-thriller written and executive produced by Secretary scribe Erin Cressida Wilson, finds Moore’s Catherine questioning her husband David’s (Liam Neeson) fidelity and seeks out an “alluring” young woman (Seyfried) to find out the truth. The web of sexual desire is tinged with insecurity, steamy love scenes and enough of Seyfried’s well-known big blue eyes and full lips where audiences forget they know the actress as Meryl Streep’s singing daughter in Mamma Mia!

“I was worried that I wasn’t capable of being able to nail the scenes as they were written,” Seyfried confesses to a group of reporters during a roundtable with Wilson at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills just days after presenting at the 82^nd Annual Academy Awards. “It was a realistic study of a marriage, and it seems like it’s never easy and a woman kind of coming into this place where she feels like she’s lost and she doesn’t know who she is anymore to her husband. I’ve never seen that before in a movie. It’s also a character that wouldn’t come around very often to someone my age.”

Seyfried is clearly enjoying another career high and the “up-and-coming” labels are flying fast and furious, but the 24-year-old actress is wise beyond her years when it comes to selecting roles.

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