Amanda Seyfried felt "so liberated" while making The Housemaid.
The 40-year-old actress starred alongside Sydney Sweeney in the hit mystery-thriller film, and Amanda admits that she relished the experience of playing an unhinged housewife in the movie.
The blonde beauty told W Magazine: "I star opposite Sydney Sweeney, and we have the same shoe size, are the same height, and we giggle the same way.
"It was so crazy—in some ways, that film is like Black Swan or Single White Female, but funny. I got to play so hard.
"The director, Paul Feig, would give me the strangest directions. He’d say, 'Okay, make [Sydney] think you’re going to kiss her!' I felt so liberated."
Amanda previously heaped praised on Sydney, describing her co-star as a "sweetheart".
She told Vanity Fair: "I don’t envy anything she’s going through.
"I’ve spent a lot of time with her; we just hit it off immediately. She’s a sweetheart. She’s a very generous, kind person at her core. I have to be honest: I did not have a moment like she’s having ever.
"[My Mean Girls costar] Lindsay Lohan, we’re buddies, and it’s really, really, really harmful to people to have that kind of overnight spotlight. Because any press, good or bad, is still a blinding spotlight, and you have to maneuver and negotiate your way around it and outside of it. It’s acrobatics that I don’t think most people are capable of figuring it out at that age."
Amanda observed that a sudden rise to stardom can be "dangerous". However, the actress praised Sydney for how she's coped with the extra attention.
Amanda said: "It’s just dangerous, because when you have people s******* on you—or idolising you and following you around—it can’t be good for your psyche. It can’t make you feel safe in the world.
"But I actually admire the way Syd shows up for work. She always has a smile on her face, even if she’s miserable. I hope it doesn’t change. I hope she doesn’t harden. I just want to keep watching her work."
