Amanda Seyfried gives a cheeky wink on the red carpet while arriving for The Dropout panel at 92nd Street Y on Tuesday (March 22) in New York City.
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Amanda Seyfried is stepping out to promote her new Hulu series!
The 36-year-old Oscar-nominated actress stepped out in a pink plaid suit as she arrived at Good Morning America to chat about her new show The Dropout on Thursday morning (March 3) in New York City.
If you didn’t know, The Dropout follows the rise and fall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who Amanda portrays in the show.
During her GMA interview, Amanda explained why she didn’t meet with Elizabeth before she started filming the show.
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“I was never too concerned with us being on the wrong path because of all the research and Liz Meriwether at the helm,” Amanda said, referring to the show’s creator. “I think we were very, very responsible.”
“This is our version of the story, and then real life is happening,” she continued. “And you’re like — you want to be involved but you don’t want to be too involved because you want to be able to serve the story.”
Amanda also talked about her enthusiasm in taking on this role.
“Playing a person who exists, being able to absorb the footage and mimic somebody and try to embody somebody that actually — there’s a template out there, is very exciting,” Amanda explained. “I hate to say that because it’s a real person with real consequences and a real life — and I wish her well — I just, as an actor, very specifically, it was thrilling.”
In another recent interview, Amanda looked back at a very awkward red carpet moment!
The first three episodes of The Dropout are available for streaming on Hulu now.
Amanda Seyfried gives a cheeky wink on the red carpet while arriving for The Dropout panel at 92nd Street Y on Tuesday (March 22) in New York City.
Happy in Hudson! Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski have settled into their new normal since relocating their brood to a farm in upstate New York.
As you hopefully already know, Hulu’s “The Dropout,” is terrific, and Amanda Seyfried is incredible in her layered depiction— something between absolute confidence, desperation, and legitimate imposter syndrome—of Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos, the embattled tech/healthcare startup that lied to its investors, employees, and partners creating a major fraud sh*tstorm in 2018 when their grift became exposed (read our review here). READ MORE: ‘The Dropout’: Amanda Seyfried Is Outstanding In A Tremendous Indictment Of Tech Hubris, Desperation & Grift [Review] Seyfried is getting her just flowers for her amazing turn as the manipulative, conniving Theranos CEO, but we shouldn’t also forget the show’s co-lead, Naveen Andrews, aka Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani.
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Attention fans of The Dropout, Us Weekly has rounded up everything you need to know about Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani’s real-life relationship as Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews’ portrayal receives critical acclaim.
The Dropout – where she stars as Theranos fraud Elizabeth Holmes – Amanda Seyfried is retreating back to the farm life she knows and loves.MORE: The Dropout: viewers are saying the same thing about Elizabeth Holmes seriesThe star shared images from her calm and expansive farm home, revealing a rare glimpse of her two kids with Thomas Sadoski: Nina, four, and Thomas, one.Amanda and Thomas married in 2017, having a small and very private wedding while the Mamma Mia actress was pregnant – nine months pregnant to be exact – with their first child.WATCH: The trailer for Amanda's new drama series, The DropoutMORE: Amanda Seyfried's rare photo with baby son reveals disturbing image emerging in the backgroundThe first picture from the carousel featured Nina, who undoubtedly looks just like her mom, giving her back to the camera as she leans over a wood fence that a white donkey is approaching.
Amanda Seyfried is playing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in Disney+’s new series “The Dropout”, but she didn’t have an interest in meeting her.
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Amanda Seyfried, 36, has been in the spotlight for most of her life! After making her debut in the soap opera As The World Turns as a teen, the actress has starred in tons of beloved movies and critically acclaimed features, from Mean Girls to Mank, which garnered her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. Amanda has also showed off her singing abilities by starring in a number of classic musicals, like Mamma Mia and Les Míserables. Throughout her career, Amanda’s love life has also been the subject of much attention. Despite a few high profile boyfriends, Amanda settled down with actor Thomas Sadoski, 45, in 2017. Find out more about some of her past boyfriends here!
Stranger than fiction. The Dropout follows the controversy surrounding Elizabeth Holmes and her company Theranos, and the details of the scandal are so wild that they were practically made for TV.
Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University to start a healthcare company and went on to be named the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America by Forbes — so where did it all go wrong? Hulu’s new limited series, explores the unbelievably true story of Holmes and her company, Theranos, and how the seemingly successful billionaire lost everything.Inspired by the hit ABC News podcast of the same name, stars Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews and charts the rise and fall of Holmes’ healthcare-focused tech startup across eight episodes. The series drops its first three episodes on Thursday, March 3, exclusively on Hulu.Watch NowHulu announced the twisted true crime series back in April 2019, with star Kate McKinnon set to executive produce and star as Holmes in the show.
A tiny drop of blood, instead of a needle and a lab, and a radical idea to revolutionize medicine, disrupt the entire health care system, and maybe even change the world. This was the infamous Elizabeth Holmes/ Theranos story: a young, ambitious entrepreneur with a bold idea, inspiring a great suspension of disbelief in a lot of people dying to believe in her.
Amanda Seyfried delivers another award-worthy performance thanks to her portrayal of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of fraud, in Hulu’s true-crime miniseries,. Most notably, the 36-year-old actress recreates her real-life counterpart’s distinct baritone voice and signature style, which included a black turtleneck sweater accessorized with a green juice smoothie. The key, Seyfried and showrunner Elizabeth Meriwether tell ET, was to make sure the actress’ portrayal was not to make a joke of Holmes, which has already been done countless times by comedic performers, including star Chloe Fineman.
Amanda Seyfried is opening up about her new show, The Dropout.
As Elizabeth Holmes awaits her fate, viewers will see how the disgraced founder of Theranos found herself possibly facing up to 20 years in prison in The Dropout. The Hulu miniseries, premiering on March 3, sees Amanda Seyfried star as Elizabeth, 37, while Naveen Andrews portrays Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the man who helped co-found the controversial blood-testing tech startup. While Elizabeth has been the face of this scandal – her black turtleneck becoming as visibly recognizable as that of Steve Jobs‘ – Sunny has dodged the spotlight, for the most part. So, who is this man?
Elizabeth Holmes never ceases, especially now that she’s the subject of a scripted, true crime miniseries,. Starring Amanda Seyfried, the eight-part drama chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the deep-voiced, blonde entrepreneur’s quest to create a groundbreaking home device that people could use to test their blood for all types of illnesses.
Getting real! During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Amanda Seyfried revealed that her red carpet experiences haven’t always been as glamorous as they are today — especially at the very beginning of her career.
Amanda Seyfried stopped by “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to reminisce about her first big red carpet event.