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Right now, Amanda Seyfried is generating a lot of Oscar buzz for her work in The Testament of Ann Lee, an intense, esoteric movie where she plays the founder of the Shakers, a radical religious movement that was birthed from Lee’s quest to build a utopia. While Seyfried promotes it, she’s having lots of valuable conversations about politics, feminism, and, just as importantly, her undying devotion to Botox.
In a new Who What Wear cover story, Seyfried unpacked her beauty regimen, making it clear that she does not want to have any cosmetic surgeries but will remain a loyal disciple to the neurotoxin until the day she dies. “I have a really good dermatologist who tells me that she’s never gonna do anything but put Botox in the same place for the rest of my life,” she said. She also pointed to a specific spot on her forehead where her unnamed derm will allegedly be injecting her in perpetuity.
And you know what? I believe her. Seyfried has been sharing her profound appreciation for Botox since August, when she spoke to Vanity Fair about Ann Lee director Mona Fastvold’s no-makeup rule on set. “I couldn’t get Botox for a year,” Seyfried said. “That was a big assignment … When I first got [Botox], I was, like, ‘This is amazing’ — because I frown a lot. But then it all came back in a way that was absolutely necessary for all the work I was doing.” In a September red-carpet interview with Etalk at TIFF, she reflected on her Botox-less year. “We did make sacrifices,” she said of the Ann Lee production process. “I don’t necessarily need all that in my life. I just like it. The things that I like, I can sacrifice a little.”
It came up yet again during a recent interview with Allure, where Seyfried’s The Housemaid co-star Sydney Sweeney debunked the rumor that she’d never gotten work done because she’s afraid of needles. “It’s really effective once you get older,” Seyfried assured Sweeney, adding that “there’s an art to it.” Ain’t that the truth.
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