Amanda Seyfried on The Dropout’s Chaotic-Good Dance Scenes and the Oscar-Nominated Performance That Blew Her Away

The version of Amanda Seyfried tucked into a booth at the Los Angeles restaurant Mother Wolf on Thursday evening—backed by the hum of Vanity Fair and Lancôme’s Future of Hollywood party—is miles away from the character she so convincingly inhabits in Hulu’s The Dropout. The series’s dramatization of the rise and fall of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes presents the actor in hastily applied eyeliner with a crown of bleach-blonde flyaways, as she bluffs her way through investor meetings and lets off steam with frenetic dance interludes. By contrast, the woman polishing off a slice of thin-crust pizza is all warm… Read Full Article