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‘Long Bright River’s Amanda Seyfried Reveals Her Teen Fame Experience & The Truth Behind That Viral Joni Mitchell Performance On ‘Fallon’


Amanda Seyfried talks to Deadline about her harrowing role as a cop on Peacock's Long Bright River, Joni Mitchell and the perils of young celebrity

She talks so fondly of her love for the sunlight, you’d never guess she spent the past year navigating the bleak darkness of an opioid-afflicted Philadelphia neighborhood in Peacock ’s Long Bright River. But I also think there’s just a mechanism that we create over the years of, we know what it feels like when this stuff really infiltrates, and you start feeding off the drama of the content and the context and situations you’re shooting as an actor. DEADLINE: You had another major musical experience that went viral — your dulcimer performance of Joni Mitchell’s song “California” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

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