Amanda Seyfried "relieved," "excited" to finally talk about everything

After months of keeping Hollywood’s biggest secret, Amanda Seyfried is happy that you can see everything because she can finally tell everything. Speaking to People on the red carpet at the premiere of Netflix’s animated Wicked-style Cinderella musical, Steps, Seyfried says she’s both “relieved” the cat’s out of the bag and “excited” to do work that challenges and “scares” her. Seyfried unexpectedly reprised her Emmy-winning role as convicted Theranos fraudster and Abbott and Costello skeptic for scenes in You Can See Everything, which allowed co-directors Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder to expand their dizzying hall of mirrors for a blockbuster documentary that could make Oscar history. “It’s important for me as an actor, an artist, I mean, a mom, of course,” Seyfried continues, “but as a person in the world who loves to work, to find things that I haven’t done before and to do things that scare me in a specific way.”

“Specific” is certainly one adjective you could use to describe You Can See Everything. In the film, Seyfried plays herself as an Elizabeth Holmes expert who might have insight into Holmes’ thinking from her time on The Dropout. On a whim, she decides to take another shot at playing Holmes, offering to play the character she created in Fielder’s recreations, giving the audience a pseudo-Dropout sequel tucked inside a pseudo-Rehearsal follow-up. That’s not to say voicing Cinderella in a retelling of the fairy tale centered on the misunderstood stepsister who turns the princess into a frog doesn’t scare her. However, at risk of sounding dismissive, a voice role in Netflix’s animated fairy tale starring Ali Wong, Daniel Radcliffe, and Bette Midler, with six Story By credits and five Screenplay credits, is less risky than being the secret co-star of the fall’s strangest and most-discussed movie. “When you follow through with something that scares you, and it comes out the other end that it’s something that’s having an impact, mostly positive impact, it always feels good because you take a risk,” Seyfried says. Plus, she became the voice of American sanity by taking a risk and yelling at the film’s co-star Billy Evans about Charlie Kirk.