Topics: Celebrity, TV And Film
Amanda Seyfried has bared all when it comes to dishing on her use of costume cover-ups whilst on the set of The Testament of Ann Lee.
The 2025 film revolves around the character, Ann Lee, played by Seyfried, who begins an 18th century religious sect called The Shakers.
While you might not think a religious origin story would include a ‘prosthetic butthole’, you’d be wholly wrong in that assessment.
Seyfried revealed when speaking on BBC Radio 2’s Scott Mills Breakfast Show on 25 February that there was a nude scene in the film’s final act, which ‘needed to be graphic’.
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She said: "This movie, it needed to be graphic. So, like, I had a prosthetic butthole."
She also wore a merkin – a prosthetic public wig – which left her feeling ‘free’, as the movie had her in these ‘exciting’ and ‘cool’ moments.
The actress said of the nudity: "I was pregnant and naked, but I wasn't naked at all," she continued, "and at the end of the movie, I'm standing in front of a burning building with just a merkin. I felt so free."
Seyfried added: "You cannot see my butthole in [the scene], but I swear there is a prosthetic butthole there."
When Mills asked why she would wear one if the audience would not see it, she simply said to him: "Just in case.”
"Gotta get people to the theater!" Seyfried added.
To be honest, that’s fair enough.
Previously, Seyfried spoke of her regret at filming nude scenes when she was younger, telling Porter in 2022: “Being 19, walking around without my underwear on—like, are you kidding me? How did I let that happen?
“Oh, I know why: I was 19 and I didn’t want to upset anybody, and I wanted to keep my job. That’s why.”
She also spoke about coming out of the industry ‘pretty unscathed’ as a rising star, but understanding how young actors today can feel crushed by some elements – like rejection.
She said: “When I meet somebody who’s younger, like in their twenties, and they get rejected… by a job or something like that, it crushes them completely for a minute,” she says. “Nothing can crush me completely, when it comes to work. I’m uncrushable! Not one thing can crush my life, unless it has to do with my family.
“[That’s] not to say that I don’t get hurt in my job. I lost out on a big role that I really wanted – [well], I thought I wanted.”
However, she realised it was ‘right’, and has gone on to star in The Housemaid and the Ann Lee biopic.
