{"id":19960,"date":"2022-07-20T07:37:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T07:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/amanda-seyfried-auditioned-for-wicked-while-playing-holmes\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T07:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T07:37:48","slug":"amanda-seyfried-auditioned-for-wicked-while-playing-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/amanda-seyfried-auditioned-for-wicked-while-playing-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Seyfried Auditioned for Wicked While Playing Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She might win an Emmy for The Dropout<\/em>; it’s all going to be okay.
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If there’s one thing I know about Amanda Seyfried, it’s that she has always wanted to play G(a)linda in the movie version(s) of Wicked<\/em>. She she loves to talk about it! She she talked about it in 2013. She talked about it in 2015. She talked about it in 2021. she She’s still talking about it now, and they’ve already cast Ariana Grande as Glinda! (Sorry, I can’t keep doing the (a)<\/em> thing when I spell it, it’s too goofy.) In response to a question from Backstage about the wildest thing she has done to get a role, Seyfried revealed that she went as far as to audition in person for Wicked<\/em> on every weekends while she was filming The Dropout<\/em> during the week. \u201c’You know what? Yeah, I have to play the last scene of The Dropout <\/em>on Tuesday. I’ll give my Sunday to you,’\u201d Seyfried said. \u201cI literally bent over backwards while playing the hardest role of my life.\u201d Imagine the vocal strain incurred by going back and forth from Elizabeth Holmes’s basso profundo drawl to Glinda’s soprano. Imagine Elizabeth Holmes singing \u201cPopular.\u201d Imagine Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes doing a shoulder shimmy while singing \u201cPopular.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyway, we will not be seeing Amanda Seyfried as Glinda in Wicked<\/em>, because they did not cast her and also there’s only a 16.3 percent chance that movie ever actually gets made. But Seyfried has framed this all as a learning experience. She’s still working with her vocal coach (in the past she’s said she works with Liz Caplan, coach to the stars) \u2014 \u201cbecause ever since Les Miz<\/em>, I was like, I need to be better. I need to do better\u201d \u2014 and she promises that \u201cwhatever comes in next in terms of musicals, I’m finally prepared.\u201d This is good news because we do think that in a few decades she could potentially pull off an performance in a film version of the musical Gray Gardens<\/em>.<\/p>\n