Amanda Seyfried is best known for being the wide-eyed, sometimes ditzy blonde girl from films like "Mean Girls," "Mamma Mia" and "Dear John." Her raciest role to date is on the Showtime drama "Big Love" where she plays the disapproving daughter of a polygamist. So, for the most part, Amanda has played it on the safe side with "Veronica Mars," and the upcoming "Letters to Juliet."
But her newest film to be hitting theaters in limited release this Friday, "Chloe," blows all those preconceived conceptions of Amanda and her acting abilities out of the water. Starring opposite Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson, she plays the titular character in the erotic thriller directed by Atom Egoyan.
The role of a high-end escort hired by Julianne's character to tempt her potentially cheating husband into guilt scared away many of the other actresses who were approached, but Amanda was too intrigued to turn down the opportunity.
"I was terrified, but I also thought girls my age don't really get opportunities like this," she told MTV News. "I thought, '[Atom]'s a classy guy. Everybody's telling me he's the greatest director and that I should be working with him.' I didn't know him at the time, so I was just intrigued by the whole thing and the writing was so raw."
Though the film deals much with Chloe's relationship with the husband, played by Liam, the tables soon get turned and Julianne's character is also seduced into the mix. One of the raciest scenes in the film is a hotel sex scene between Amanda and Julianne that had both of them (and their stand-ins) baring everything for the camera. However, Amanda said it wasn't as sexy to film as it will be to see on the big screen.
"It's so technical," Amanda said. "It's too technical almost. We had these two stand-ins come into the hotel room and Atom directed them and Julianne and I had to watch and discuss and agree upon what we thought was necessary and what we thought was too much."
This will be Amanda's second time getting it on with a female onscreen, as she also had a make-out scene with costar Megan Fox in "Jennifer's Body." But Amanda said that "Chloe" had the ability to be a strong balance of both sexuality and character-driven storytelling to create a great film overall.
"I just thought, 'Wow, if I did it right, it could be good'," Amanda said. "That was my fear the whole time and even halfway through."
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