Amanda Seyfried has admitted that she didn’t “feel appreciated” after losing out on a leading role in the Wicked movie.
The Mamma Mia! star auditioned six times to play Glinda the Good Witch in the big-screen adaptation of the hit musical, eventually losing out on the part to Ariana Grande.
Speaking in a new interview with Radio Times, Seyfried, 40, said that while she didn’t regret not getting the role, her experience hadn’t been entirely positive.
“I wasn’t sad I didn’t get it [Wicked], but I guess I wish it had been communicated to me in a better way,” she said.
“I don’t like to be in the dark about things. I like to feel appreciated.”
Seyfried has previously spoken about the lengthy process of trying out for Jon M Chu’s Wizard of Oz prequel, saying that she’d been made to repeatedly audition for the role of Glinda “because that had to be really just right”.
“I loved it. I was busy. I barely had time to do it, but I made it work. I worked my ass off for years and years and years on that music. I’m competitive… with myself in a really healthy way,” she told the In The Envelope podcast.
“There’s something really beautiful about auditioning,” she said. “If you really have the skill, you’re going to show it no matter what. There’s this weird fear when you walk in that you have to make an impression right away, which you do but the only impression that is helpful is to be yourself.
“The things that people do… the way they behave when they’re nervous can be off-putting. Centring yourself and saying what you feel instead of a bunch of bulls*** is helpful.”
Her breakout role might have come in 2004’s teen comedy Mean Girls, but Seyfried is also known for her singing and has starred in movie musicals from Abba jukebox musical Mamma Mia! and its sequel to Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables.
Les Misérables was a different ballgame to most film musicals, however, as the cast were required to sing live as opposed to recording their vocals in the studio to be dubbed over.
Speaking last year about this experience on the set of the 2012 epic, Seyfried admitted that she’d found the experience of singing live “infuriating”.
“Les Mis was an incredible movie. I loved it. The costumes, the people… We were all really happy to be there, but I, unfortunately, was not technically ready or capable of the live singing in the way that I would’ve liked to be,” she told GQ.
“I was lacking in a way that I really wish I hadn’t been and that’s a regret I have.”
John Davidson ‘deeply mortified’ if anyone felt Bafta N-word incident was intentional
BBC removes Baftas from iPlayer after racial slur controversy
I research Tourette’s. Here’s what I think about John Davidson’s biopic, I Swear
Marty Supreme ties unfortunate record at the Baftas as Timothée Chalamet snubbed
The very best moments from Baftas 2026 ceremony
Animated goat movie edges win over Emerald Fennell’s contentious Wuthering Heights
