Amanda Seyfried Says She Won't Take On Projects with Sex Scenes: “I’m Uncomfortable With It”

Amanda Seyfried, in a recent interview at the Hamptons International Film Festival, said: “I was on a show where I had to be having sex all the time.” “It doesn’t matter [with whom]... I don’t want to do that. I’m uncomfortable with it. I’m not interested in it right now.” Seyfried, who […]

"I was on a show where I had to have sex all the time because of the sex," Amanda Seyfried said in a recent interview at the Hamptons International Film Festival. "It doesn't matter [who it's with] ... I don't want to do it. I'm uncomfortable with it. I'm not into it right now."

Seyfried, who has previously done competition projects like Jennifer's Body and Lovelace, says she's in a different place in her life.

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"Our job is strange," he told Baldwin. "And the older I get, the weirder it gets. We have to be romantic with people we're not romantic with. Watch on Deadline

"Sometimes it's great. Sometimes it's really sad. But I can't believe that day when I said, "We have to make a decision. Great, this is wonderful. I know how to tell." He laughed.

"And it used to be a lot of fun," Seyfried continued. "It was an unusual thing. It was like, 'I've got to deal with a grieving person today... and they're paying me.'

The Emmy winner didn't completely rule out doing something like that in the future.

"Maybe if [the project] comes up again [next time], maybe I'll be in a different space," he said.

Right now, though, "I don't want to deal with being naked with a stranger."

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