July 14, 2010 by Chris Ball [Link]

Catherine (Julianne Moore) suspects her husband, David (Liam Neeson), of cheating. Once inseparable, they’ve drifted apart, with parenting, busy careers and other interests interfering with intimacy.

Catherine has her reasons for being suspicious, but in order to be sure, she takes a huge risk and asks a pretty young prostitute to come on to David.

Moore is quite good as the worrying wife. Neeson, always fine, is a bit too much of a nice guy to be a believable philanderer.

What makes this erotic 2009 drama memorable is Amanda Seyfried as Chloe, the helpful hooker. Seyfried, who is getting some plum film roles since her big break as the eldest daughter in the HBO series “Big Love,” is expressive, intelligent, beautiful and likable. Here’s hoping we see more of her soon.

“Chloe” is a remake of the 2003 French film “Nathalie” starring Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and Emmanuelle Beart.

R, 96 minutes. DVD and Blu-ray extras: deleted scenes, a making-of featurette and commentary with director Atom Egoyan, Seyfried and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson. From Sony. In stores Tuesday, July 13.

June 30, 2008 by Monique Jessen [Link]

Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried gets very excited if you mention a certain British actor and a former Bond man.

“He’s so sexy, Colin Firth, so sexy [and] will always be,” Seyfried, 22, told Entertainment Tonight as she giggled about her Mamma Mia! costar.

And she feels equally as lucky when it comes to sharing the screen with another handsome actor: Pierce Brosnan.

“Shooting in the summer of ‘07 on the 007 [sound]stage with a 007, that’s one of the things he said to me, and I was like, ‘You’re right, I am lucky,’ because he’s a studly, studly man!” the actress says.

Seyfried plays Meryl Streep’s daughter in the film inspired by the music of ABBA and based on the hit starge musical. Firth and Brosnan both play Streep’s ex-boyfriends – one of which could be the father of Seyfried’s character. The film is out July 18.

“I can’t help smiling. I have all these amazing people in my life now from the movie,” says Seyfried, who also costars in the HBO series Big Love and starred opposite Lindsay Lohan in the teen hit Mean Girls.

The young actress admits she was nervous to meet Streep for the first time.

“I almost fainted because it was such a big deal for her to accept me, especially playing her daughter,” Seyfried says. “She is the most gracious, graceful woman I have ever met in my life.”

March 17, 2010 by Suzanne Zuckerman [Link]

In Chloe, Julianne Moore’s character hires a prostitute played by Amanda Seyfried to tempt her possibly cheating husband (Liam Neeson). What ensues is a much-buzzed-about sex scene between the two women. So how did the actors prepare to lose their inhibitions? Tequila shots? Group therapy? Turns out it was all pretty technical.

“Was it different because it was [with] a girl? No,” Moore told reporters in New York Monday about her onscreen tryst with Seyfried. “Whenever you have an intimate scene with somebody, you’re very prepared. Everyone knows exactly what’s happening and it’s usually very choreographed … Amanda and I were comfortable with each other.”

Moore, 49, went on to call her 24-year-old costar “lovely” and “quite impressive.” But it wasn’t such a clear-cut call for Seyfried, who admits to being so “intimidated” she tried to back out of the movie.

“The risk factor came with the fact that the nudity could potentially create some damage with my American audience,” she said. Still, “I had to do it. It was clearly the riskier choice but I think the better choice.”

Now, Seyfried rates it as her most memorable moment on the set. “The love scene,” she said. “I’ll never forget that.”

Director Atom Egoyan just shrugged off the hubbub: “They are actors. They use their bodies to express feeling. That’s what their job is about,” he said. Besides, “It’s a great scene and my favorite moment in the film perhaps.”

July 12, 2010 by Pamela McClintock [Link]

Amanda Seyfried wants to become immortal.

The actress is set to topline New Regency’s sci-fi action thriller, “I’m.mortal,” from writer-director Andrew Niccol. Twentieth Century Fox will distribute the film, also described as an action love story.

“I’m.mortal” revolves around a society in which aging stops at the age of 25–meaning that every role in “mortal” will be played by actors in their mid-20s.

New Regency picked up the high-priority project this spring. Niccol is expected to begin lensing this year.

Eric Newman and Marc Abraham are producing via their Strike Entertainment. Strike’s Kristel Laiblin is exec producing.

In “I’m.mortal,” time has become the currency. Once you turn 25 and your aging gene turns off, you must buy and bank time. If you are rich enough, you can live forever. But if you run out of time, you are engineered to die automatically.

When a rebel from the ghetto is falsely accused of murdering a wealthy man for his time, he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful, rich hostage (Seyfried). Together, this duo rages against the system, living minute to minute. They discover that love is more powerful than all the time in the world.

Seyfried (“Mamma Mia!”) stars in Warner Bros.’ upcoming “Red Riding Hood,” from director Catherine Hardwicke. She was last in theaters with “Letters to Juliet” and “Dear John.”

Lead male hasn’t yet been cast.

The male lead in “I’m.mortal” hasn’t yet been cast.

Niccol’s previous directing/writing credits include “Gattaca” and “Lord of War.” He also wrote “The Truman Show.”

“I’m.mortal” isn’t the only sci-fi film project broaching the subject of a future where people don’t age, causing issues of overpopulation.

A remake of “Logan’s Run” has been in the works for more than a decade at Warner Bros. That film focuses on a man trying to escape a mandatory death sentence on his 30th birthday.

“It’s a strange casting process. Even for a small role like a priest or a pawnbroker, where you would normally cast a 75-year-old character actor, I have to find a 75-year-old character actor in a 25-year old body,” Niccol told Daily Variety.

Seyfried is repped by Innovative Artists.

July 12, 2010 by Terri Schwartz [Link]

Amanda Seyfried has been all over the supernatural spectrum recently, first opposite Megan Fox in “Jennifer’s Body,” then in the upcoming “Girl With The Red Riding Hood,” and now, according to Variety, as the lead in the sci-fi thriller “I’m.mortal.” The film is written and will be directed by Andrew Niccol of “Gattaca” and “The Truman Show” fame.

The story follows a society where people stop aging at 25. After then, people have to buy and bank “time” to continue to live forever. This is no problem for the rich, but the poor end up dying because they are engineered to die when their time runs out.

A rebel gets falsely charged for murdering a wealthy man for his time, so he takes a rich girl — played by Amanda — as his hostage.