{"id":658577,"date":"2025-03-24T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/amanda-seyfried-on-going-scary-and-dark-in-long-bright-river\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:05:18","slug":"amanda-seyfried-on-going-scary-and-dark-in-long-bright-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amanda-seyfried-on-going-scary-and-dark-in-long-bright-river\/","title":{"rendered":"#Amanda Seyfried on Going \u201cScary and Dark\u201d in \u2018Long Bright River\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tAmanda Seyfried said she went to some \u201cscary dark places\u201d for her latest role in Long Bright River<\/em>, playing a beat cop on the mean streets of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the eight-part drama, produced by Sony Pictures Television, which dropped on Peacock+ on March 13 and will have its international premiere at TV festival Series<\/a> Mania in Lille this week, Seyfried plays Mickey, a Philly-raised overachiever who it once seemed was bound to escape her blue-collar roots. Instead, she finds herself a single mom patrolling her own Kensington neighborhood, trying to connect with the addicts and sex workers she encounters every day. One of them is her own sister, Kasey (played by Ashleigh Cummings), who has ended up, literally, on the wrong side of the tracks. When sex workers start turning up dead, and Kasey vanishes, Mickey suspects a serial killer is on the loose and that her sister could be his next victim.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdapted by Nikki Toscano and Liz Moore from Moore\u2019s novel of the same name, Long Bright River<\/em> is a drama about intergenerational trauma, the opioid crisis and institutional corruption packaged in a police procedural. Mickey\u2019s search for the killer is the engine that drives the plot but the core of the story is Mickey\u2019s relationship with Kasey, their father (played by John Doman), and her young son Thomas (Callum Vinson). \u201cThe North Star for us was the love story between the two sisters, unfolding at the same time of this murder mystery,\u201d says Toscano.<\/p>\n

\n\tLong Bright River<\/em> is drawing comparisons to Kate Winslet starrer Mare of Easttown \u2014\u00a0another Pennsylvania-set crime series centered on a mature female cop with family issues \u2014 and its devotion to grown-up theme<\/a>s stands apart from the current wave of crime comedy and action entertainment series.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeyfried and Toscano spoke to The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> ahead of the show\u2019s Series Mania premiere, on Seyfried\u2019s transformation for the role, including learning to play the English horn \u201cin like 10 seconds\u201d and on the courage to tell dark story in dark times.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmanda, this is a very different role for you. I think it\u2019s fair to say most people wouldn\u2019t immedia<\/a>tely think of you as a beat cop. Why did you want to take this character on?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAmanda Seyfried:<\/strong> I knew that I wanted to play somebody that scared me. Playing a cop never felt like it would have made sense for me because I didn\u2019t believe that I could kind of hold that kind of authority, but then you put on the uniform \u2014 I mean, real cops must feel this way \u2014 and all of a sudden, you have this edge, you have this shield, for better or for worse. We have a crazy relationship with cops in general<\/a>, at this point in the world. I felt like it was the best time to play somebody who really does their job with dignity and respect for civilians. I was one of the good guys. It was a dream come true, especially because it\u2019s not really a cop show. We\u2019re talking about crimes and the main character is a cop, but it\u2019s really a show about family and human beings and and trauma.<\/p>\n

\n\tNikki, I was struck that the series is a lot darker than most of the television getting made right now. Was it difficult in the current marketplace to pitch a dark show that goes into trauma, drug abuse and sex work, and that doesn\u2019t have a sort of easy hero in the center of it, or an easy, happy end?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tNikki Toscano: <\/strong>Well the show has been about five years in the making so we pitched it at a very different time. When we originally pitched this, I think that people really embraced the family drama aspect. The book was received really well. It was on Barack Obama\u2019s top books of 2020 list, so when we were talking about it, what people responded to was that this was a story about the humanity in the darkness, the light in the dark.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show has come out in the U.S. on Peacock+. What was that experience like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tToscano: <\/strong>It was unique for me. It was a big drop, the whole show going out at once. A lot of the shows that I\u2019ve done before have been maybe the first three episodes and then weekly. So it was interesting to see. I was getting calls like, \u201cOh my god, we watched all eight episodes yesterday!\u201d I was like: \u2018Who was taking care of your children?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSeyfried:<\/strong> That\u2019s really funny. I wish every show did that. I I thought at first it was a weird plan but that\u2019s how I watch TV at night \u2014 four episodes at a time. I was worried that people would feel like they were in Philly, that it was authentic. But it\u2019s been really nice. Even my therapist told me that she forgot it was me. And therapists do not lie.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat was the most challenging single scene for you to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tSeyfried:<\/strong> The thing that jumps out right away is the scene between Kasey [Ashleigh Cummings] and my character, Mickey, when I find out that the killer might be [Mickey\u2019s former partner] Truman [Nicholas Pinnock]. That was really hard. I was playing so many things, playing disbelief, but also fear that [Kasey] was using again, so I\u2019m not sure if she is high or not. There\u2019s a lot happening in that scene. In every scene really. It\u2019s no wonder I went dark for a while, I couldn\u2019t handle anything else. I spent five days a week at an apartment in the city without my kids. I had to really live in the space. It did cost me some, even as an older actor who knows how to compartmentalize. Scenes like that, where I\u2019m playing so many things, and I don\u2019t know how I can do this. Every few days there were challenges like that, where I was just like: I don\u2019t know how I\u2019m going to play all this in one go. But we had incredible directors, Nikki being one of them, and I felt incredibly supported, and I knew that the end of the day, they were going to get what they needed. It was worth it.<\/p>\n

\n\tNikki, you co-wrote this with Liz Moore, the author of the novel. What was it that she was keen on keeping from the book and what was she open to change to fit the series format?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tToscano: <\/strong>She was incredibly open. From our first conversations, she was not interested in doing a replica of her book in series form. Early on we were having conversations ad nauseam, about what were the important things to keep. The North Star for us was the love story between the two sisters, unfolding at the same time of this murder mystery. I think what was also very important for us was the way that Kensington was portrayed. And we wanted to employ a device, like in the book, where we could effortlessly weave between the past and the present. Those were really our North Stars. Some of the details from the book were abandoned and new details came into the series but everything was informed by the heart of these women and their characters.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Amanda involved, was there any talk of squeezing in a musical episode?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tSeyfried: <\/strong>Oh sure (laughs). We shot a whole musical episode but it just wasn\u2019t working so we scrapped it.<\/p>\n

\n\tToscano: <\/strong>Having a cop singing Joni Mitchell just didn\u2019t fit, you know? But we actually did bring in music. In the book, Mickey is fascinated with becoming a history professor. We changed that into her having a love of music and playing an instrument [the English horn]. We wanted to use that to show the promise this character had and the loss of that promise. Amanda learned in like 10 seconds, which is insane. She\u2019s insanely gifted, with singing, playing musical instruments, everything.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeyfried: <\/strong>It is fun when you have that extra challenge. It was such a random challenge, but it really helps ground you in this world. It was a fun extra bonus, fun, hard and interesting to do.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019ve been doing a lot of darker material, in films recently, with Atom Egoyan\u2019s Seven Veils<\/em>, or Amy Koppelman\u2019s Mouthful of Air<\/em>. Does this mean your happy singing and dancing days are behind you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tSeyfried: <\/strong>No, no and no. I have lots of singing and dancing coming out. I went straight from this to a musical [Mona Fastvold\u2019s Ann Lee<\/em>] but it is a dark musical. Here\u2019s the thing, life is dark and hard and scary. I love comedy, I really do. But also I just love breeding a kind of awareness, compassion in other people by playing these roles. I don\u2019t fear going to the dark places, for the sake of telling a real story, because life is dark. And by looking at the dark we also can appreciate the light, you know?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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