Here are some new photos of Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore at the New York premiere of Chloe, their sexy drama also costarring Liam Neeson (who did not attend the premiere). I actually love Amanda’s dress and her whole look. I’m not so in love with Julianne pink dress and black tights, but she looks so much better now that Tom Ford isn’t trying to dress her garbage bags so she won’t steal Colin Firth’s thunder. Anyway, the basic plot of Chloe is that Julianne and Liam play a married couple, and Julianne fears her husband is having an affair. So she hires a hooker (Seyfried) to seduce Liam’s character as a test. Sexy shenanigans ensue. Here’s a little more from a Seyfried interview:

“It’s a character that wouldn’t come up very often for a person my age,” says Seyfried, promoting the film at a recent roundtable with reporters at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. What will her fans make of her switch to such a dark-side role? “Hopefully they will see me as an actress, rather than just a sweetheart,” she says. “I think ‘Chloe’ is going to raise the bar a bit,” adding, I hope it’s a turning point.”

Approaching the role of Chloe, Seyfried admits, was daunting. “I was worried that I was incapable of nailing it the way it was written,” she says. “It’s so realistic. And the way things happen are so unexpected. I’ve never seen that in a movie.”

Also participating at the roundtable is the film’s screenwriter, Erin Cassandra Wilson, who is fulsome in her praise for Seyfried, not just for her performance in the film, but for her physical beautiful. “The face is so insanely given to us by heaven,” she says. And indeed Seyfried in person, with her saucer-shaped blue eyes and bee-stung lips is as uniquely striking as she is on the screen.

Wilson, who adapted the script from a 2003 French film, “Nathalie,” recalls Seyfried’s audition. Up against a number of well-known actresses, she got the part because she showed she “knows how to walk the line between good and bad. … Her soul was able to play two things at once.”

Seyfried’s steamy sex scene with Moore inevitably comes up. “No intimate love scene like that is going to be easy whether it’s with a man or a woman,” says Seyfried. “I think we got through it as best we could.” She praises Moore for her willingness to collaborate. “Julianne treated me like a peer and like a teammate,” she notes. “We had to discover something, a relationship–we had to work through it together. It was amazingly generous for someone like her, so established and so unbelievably intelligent, to be able to give me her respect.”

Seyfried shies from talk that that her career is at a new launch point. “I feel like that they’ve said that before about me, but mainly because I had a movie that won at the box office,” she declares. “When people say ‘I’m in the moment,’ how long does a moment last?”

Her popular February release, “Dear John”—in which she co-starred with Channing Tatum in a wistful modern-day wartime romance, has so far taken in $77 million at the box-office, triple its production costs. It was also the first film to knock “Avatar” off its No. 1 box-office perch. Though critics generally panned the film, Seyfried was singled out for praise in a number of reviews. A.O. Scott of the New York Times called her “a resourceful and engaging young actress industriously turning herself into a movie star.”
Looking forward, Seyfried has a platter of projects. She recently agreed to do a fourth season of HBO’s “Big Love,” which will be her last, playing the oldest daughter in a polygamous Mormon family. It’s considered to be her breakthrough role.

In “Letters to Juliet,” to be released in May she reverts to her sweetheart side, co-starring with Gale Garcia Bernal. Set in Italy, it’s a fanciful story about the discovery of a trove of letters from Juliet Capulet. “That’s more like me,” she notes. “Chloe isn’t me.”

Next up for Seyfried is a period piece comedy, “A Woman of No Importance,” based on an Oscar Wilde play, that also stars Annette Bening and is being directed by Bruce Beresford (“Driving Miss Daisy”).

Seyfried is meanwhile in late-stage negotiations to star in “Red Riding Hood,” another psychological thriller that Catherine Hardwicke, who did “Twilight,” is directly. And Seyfried says she has also been talking about a part in “Albert Nobbs,” based on Glenn Close’s Broadway hit about a 19th century woman who impersonates a man to survive. “Working with Glenn Close,” she says, “that would really be amazing.”

[From Monsters and Critics]

I think having a love scene with Julianne Moore would be wonderful. But I’m a ginger-lover, so maybe that’s why I romanticize Julianne. I’m not going to see this movie or anything, but I might rent it at some point just to see my lover Julianne.

You know what just struck me? I haven’t seen Amanda with her boyfriend Dominic Cooper in a while. Did they break up? There were tons of rumors about him cheating, and he wasn’t her date to the Oscars or to last night’s premiere. Hmm…

Julianne and Amanda at the ‘Chloe’ premiere on March 15, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Here is Amanda Seyfried’s spread in April’s Esquire Magazine - she’s one of their “Women We Love”. As for me, I don’t love Amanda. I don’t hate her either. I go back and forth between thinking she’s a cutie with a long career ahead of her, or she’s just a pretty moron who won’t be getting parts very much longer. I really don’t know. In LaineyGossip’s Oscar wrap-up, they mentioned that Amanda was kind a big fail at red carpet interviews. Apparently, when Ryan Seacrest asked why she was leaving Big Love, she told him “I wasn’t working as much as I wanted to, so…” So? You’re a working actress on an acclaimed show! Produced by Tom Hanks! You think she could manage to not sound so snotty?

I hate to say it, but Amanda didn’t come across very well in the short Esquire interview either. Of course, the dude writing about her was about to rub one out (seriously, read the whole piece), so maybe Amanda was creeped out:

Amanda on her diet: “”I’m on a raw-food diet,” she declares, raising her brows to make her eyes even bigger. “It’s intense. And sort of awful. Yesterday for lunch? Spinach. Just spinach. Spinach and some seeds.”

On getting her Australian shepherd puppy: “It’s so predictable. I just left him and I already want to run back and see him. Most of the time I just want to go home and throw the dog a stick. Can anything be more obvious than throwing a stick? I need to be needed. I understand that the need is never with the dog.”

On what kind of girl she is: “I would always tell somebody if they had sh-t on their face. Especially if it’s really feces. Well, I’m a BFF. I play a BFF. It’s what I do. I have an actual necklace from Jennifer’s Body that says BFF. That’s my role right there.”

On moving from Los Angeles to New York: “I sacrificed six years in L. A. I did my job out here. I made the contacts and did the work I had to do. But I came here at eighteen. I’m out of here at twenty-four, and I feel lucky it wasn’t longer.”

On photography: “I learned a long time ago that photographs are not theater. This is not acting. It’s pretending. I pretend I’m looking at a man who is looking right at me, a man who sees me as exceptionally clever and adventurous.”

[From Esquire]

Once again, could she try not to sound so snotty? “I sacrificed six years in L. A…” Really? Being a working actress in a sea of thousands of girls who would kill to have a fraction of your workload is a “sacrifice”?

The girl’s got a terrific figure though. I’ll give her that.

Amanda in Esquire, courtesy of Esquire online.

What’s the verdict on Amanda Seyfried? I usually come down thinking she’s a very talented and underrated actress who seems to be a pretty sweet girl in real life. I also think she looks like a young Uma Thurman, and I mean that as a compliment – I think it’s those huge, hypnotic eyes. But other than that stuff, I don’t really know her, or have strong feelings one way or the other. I do have strong feelings about this dress, however. I feel very strongly that Amanda should get a new stylist, someone who won’t put Amanda in a dress that makes her lovely boobs look like they’re cooped up behind a mesh screen.

Anyway, here are Amanda and Channing Tatum at the premiere of their new film together, Dear John. By all accounts, Dear John is a weepy melodrama about a college student (Amanda) who falls in love with a dude (Channing) on leave from active-duty. When he goes back to war (Afghanistan? Iraq? I don’t know), their relationship ebbs and flows through the written word.

Amanda Seyfried says audiences will need to have plenty of tissues handy when Dear John hits UK cinemas. At the Hollywood premiere for the romantic drama, the actress said crying in the cinema isn’t something we should be ashamed of.

“It’s good, you need it,” she told reporters on the red carpet. “I think [if it's] a love story, as sad as it can be, it brings something really good out of everybody that sees something in that.”

In the film, the Mamma Mia! actress plays a college student who falls for a soldier (played by Channing Tatum) while he’s home on leave.

“It was pretty realistic, it was dealing with things that I remember going through,” she explained. “Everything was being touched on in this movie. Everything that was surrounding the love story was real, things that needed having attention drawn to them.”

Amanda said working with Channing had been “amazing”.

“He’s awesome, he’s the most fun co-star I’ve ever had in my life,” she said.

[From The Press Association]

Even though this is a rare starring role for Amanda, she hasn’t been giving very many interviews to promote this film, from what I can tell. She did sit down with Teen Hollywood to try to get the younger kids to see the film, I suppose. I think of them now as “the Twihard demographic”. And honestly, this film might appeal to them. The interview is supremely boring (full piece here), but one answer Amanda gave cracked me up. She was asked about the melodrama in the film, and Amanda replies: “No. The funny thing is, I’ve always been subtle to a fault. I like to be more thoughtful. I’ve always found that some of the words in some of the scripts just kind of get in the way depending upon how things are written. This was a really good script and written well…I wasn’t really scared about slipping into melodrama too much. I think the moments where it is kind of overly-sentimental, are okay. You’ve got to have a little bit.” Who describes themselves as “subtle to a fault”? For goodness sake.

Here’s the trailer for Dear John:

Amanda and Channing at the LA premiere of ‘Dear John’ on February 1, 2010. Credit: Apega/WENN.

Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried Kiss in Jennifer’s Body
We’ve heard plenty of dumb, offensive comments from Megan Fox on her publicity tour for Jennifer’s Body. Megan’s stupidity gets plenty of press. There’s nothing that quite promotes films like a sexy girl-on-girl kiss, though, and Jennifer’s Body has it. Writer/producer Diablo Cody says that the kiss is not gratuitous at all, but I think the fact that Megan happens to be wearing boy short underwear as her characters crouches on the bed to kiss her best friend, played by Amanda Seyfried, makes it seem particularly geared for male fans.

What’s more is that there’s a line in the trailer where Seyfried’s character says “I thought you only killed boys” and Fox quips “I go both ways.” The film looks like a lot of fun, but I doubt it reaches the “profound and meaningful” level that Cody claims it does. She was probably joking, though, it’s hard to tell with her:

Megan Fox may feel safer kissing girls, but Amanda Seyfried, her onscreen make out partner in ‘Jennifer’s Body,’ assures us their sapphic scene is just a gimmick.

“We knew that it was going to play a really big role in publicizing the movie,” Seyfried told WENN. “We kind of rolled our eyes at the idea of having to make out.”

Not so!, said the film’s screenwriter, ‘Juno’ scribe Diablo Cody. “If the two protagonists of the film were a guy and a girl and in a particularly tense moment, they shared a kiss, no one would say it was gratuitous. But the fact that they’re women means it’s some kind of stunt. It was intended to be something profound and meaningful,” she told The Frisky.

[From The Huffington Post]

Megan plays Jennifer, a sexy cheerleader possessed by a demon who is compelled to kill. Yes, the kiss is gratuitous, but judging from the trailer, so is the whole movie. The film is out in the US this Friday, September 18.

Trailer for Jennifer’s Body

Stills from the film via Allmoviephoto

Megan Fox was the red carpet star of the Toronto Film Festival premiere of her film Jennifer’s Body. She showed up in a very interesting black Valentino cocktail dress and Christian Louboutin ankle-strap peep-toe heels. When I first saw these pictures, I thought “Oh, God. What is she wearing now?” But as I’m studying the details of the dress and how it fits her, I kind of think the dress rocks. I like the swirling-fabric effect on the skirt, and it works on Megan because she’s so thin, and she has such nice, slender legs. On a woman with larger hips or less-than-perfect legs, this dress would be horrible and bulky. But Megan pulls it off well, and this is the most “high fashion” I’ve ever seen her look.

Of course, Megan’s mouth is open in half of the red carpet pictures. She’s a total mouth-breather, but whatever. According to sources, Megan worked the carpet like she was hardcore, “playing up for the cameras and adopting a number of playful – but sexy – poses.” At the press conference before the premiere, Megan told journalists, “There’s a girl-on-girl kiss. This movie is so sexy. You better put on your sexy shoes for this one.” Oh, you sell it, honey. Because that’s all the fan boys want. They want to see Megan in a state of undress, kissing a girl. Nevermind that Jennifer’s Body is about “a cheerleader who ends up being possessed by a demon intent on seducing and killing all the boys in her high school.” Megan kisses a girl, so it’s sexy!

The “girl” she kisses is Amanda Seyfried, who also walked the red carpet last night. At first glance, I thought her sleeveless grey dress was completely see-through, but I can see that the dress is lined with flesh-colored fabric. It’s a strange effect, but it didn’t help Amanda get in many of these pictures, which is too bad. I’d never noticed what a nice, curvy figure Amanda has, and she really is a pretty little thing. Too bad the cameras were only on Megan.

In one last note – at the press conference, Jennifer’s Body director Karyn Kusama took a page out of Megan Fox’s Transformers-disrespect, and told reporters, “It was hard to know what her range was after Transformers, and I don’t think she would disagree with that…But it was really a pleasure to… see that she really had the goods.” The goods = boobs and an open mouth.

Star Magazine is reporting that British actor Dominic Cooper is cheating on his girlfriend, American actress Amanda Seyfried. Dominic and Amanda met on the set of Mamma Mia in 2007 (where they played engaged lovers), and Dominic broke up with his girlfriend of 13 years, Joanna Carolan so he and Amanda could date. They’ve been a low-key hot young international couple ever since. You may also know Dominic from his role in The Duchess, where he played the future Prime Minister Charles Grey. You may also know Amanda from her role as one of the Plastics in Mean Girls. Anyway, while Amanda tends to the first round of publicity for Jennifer’s Body in America, Dominic has been in rehearsals for a play in London. And while the cat’s away…

Dominic Cooper has gotten too close for comfort with his Phaedra costar, Irish-Ethiopian beauty Ruth Negga – and his girlfriend Amanda Seyfried is spitting mad over it!

An insider says that while rehearsing at London’s National Theatre, Dominic, 31, and Ruth, 26, were caught making out in a rehearsal room.

“They claimed it was just that: a rehearsal. But they certainly looked shocked when a cast member walked in!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, Septemeber 7 2009]

But wait! It might not be so scandalous after all. In Amanda’s Allure cover interview, she may have been alluding to difficulties in her relationship with Dominic when she said, “’Things end. Things end. And we’re in a weird business. We’re surrounded by just strange people, strange influences.” British reports are all over the alleged hookup of Dominic and Ruth Negga – sources tell the Daily Mail, “’Ruth has also been talking about Dominic rather fondly in her dressing room to some of the other cast members – which has got people talking that there’s something going on.” Yeah… I think Amanda and Dominic are still technically together, but both know their relationship is going to end soon. You know who she would be cute with? Shia LaBeouf.

Amanda and Dominic are shown out on 4/1/09. Credit: VAH/Fame Pictures

The possessed-cheerleader movie, Jennifer’s Body, comes out September 19, so we’re on the cusp of another round of insane Megan Fox interviews. So far, Megan has been laying low, and her costar Amanda Seyfried has been taking on the brunt of the early publicity rounds. Now, I like Amanda, but I don’t know that much about her. Her most famous roles thus far have been in Mean Girls (she was one of the Plastics) and Mamma Mia (as Meryl Streep’s daughter). Amanda seems like a sweetheart, but I’m reserving judgment until I see the full scope of the Jennifer’s Body publicity tour.

Recently, Amanda was asked about her kissing scene with Megan in the film. You know it was a guy who asked, and he was probably hoping for a demonstration (in his pants). Amanda was all “meh” and showed off her jaded Hollywood eye by describing how the scene came into fruition: “We knew that it was going to play a really big role in publicising the movie. We kind of rolled our eyes at the idea of having to make out.” She also said that it was a “relief” working opposite Megan because she didn’t have “that weird pressure of feeling like you have to look attractive. In this movie, I didn’t worry about any of that s**t. I don’t want to play the one that everybody is supposed to want to have sex with.”

Amanda is also the cover girl for September’s Allure Magazine (excerpts via MTV). Amanda describes her panic attacks, and how Hollywood is just like high school:

For a 23-year-old college dropout, “Big Love” star Amanda Seyfried has the breadth of life experiences someone twice her age would covet. She spent her childhood modeling. She studied opera. And worked alongside Meryl Streep. She’s even presented at the Academy Awards with Robert Pattinson (swoon!).

To any onlooker it would appear Amanda’s led a charmed life. But it hasn’t been without its trials. The star of the upcoming “Jennifer’s Body” opened up to Allure magazine (see her full cover image after the jump) about her recurring anxiety attacks, her breakout role in “Mean Girls,” and how Tinseltown is one big high school cafeteria.

Amanda is candid about the things she doesn’t like about herself; among them her stubby nails and roller-coaster emotions, the latter of which leads to anxiety attacks at the most inopportune moments. “I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot,” she explained. “Like, the other day, I had an attack in the middle of a relaxing massage: My head was just spinning, and I felt nauseous! I was saying to myself, Just don’t make a scene! Finish this massage, or you’re going to be really annoyed with yourself.”

It’s anxiety, however, that Amanda says gives her acting an edge. Perhaps it was just such an edge that helped her land her breakout role as ditzy Karen Smith in “Mean Girls,” the flick that made stars out of Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams.

“Oh, thank God for ‘Mean Girls’! That put me on the map!” Amanda said. “I definitely knew it would be a success. I was like, There’s no way this movie can go wrong.”

It’s probably fitting then that a former “Plastic” describes Hollywood in terms of a popularity contest. “Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren’t nice,” she said hesitantly. “Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.”

Amanda is quick to point out that she’s not innocent of girl crimes either. “I do my fair share of judging when I see certain women on the covers of magazines. I think, Why is she on the cover? But then I try to think, Oh, wow — she really does look good.”

[From MTV]

Doesn’t it seem like there’s been a rash of celebrities claiming to have panic attacks recently? In Amanda’s case, I tend to believe it. I’ve had panic attacks before, and they’re no fun. I really thought I was going to die. It felt like an earthquake, my knees buckled, I couldn’t hold my head up. Tough stuff. Most doctors would probably prescribe a low-dosage antidepressant, although Amanda might think that those kinds of chemicals would affect her work as an actress.

Thanks to CoverAwards for the Allure cover. Amanda Seyfried is shown at the Glamour Awards on 6/2/09 and on the set of “Letters to Juliet” in Siena, Italy with co-star Christopher Egan on 8/3 and 8/4/09. Credit: Fame Pictures