Amanda Seyfried stuns in a simple yet chic green dress at the finale event for her Hulu show The Dropout
She is wowing audiences with her portrayal of the notorious Elizabeth Holmes in the Hulu drama series The Dropout.
To celebrate the upcoming finale of the show, star Amanda Seyfried stunned at a special event at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles on Monday.
Looking a million miles from the oddball character she plays onscreen as the former biotechnology entrepreneur, Amanda, 36, wowed in a simple yet stylish green dress.
Sophisticated: Amanda Seyfried stuns in a simple yet chic green dress at the finale event for her Hulu show The Dropout on Monday in LA
Elizabeth Holmes, 37, is facing up to 20 years in jail after a jury found her guilty of swindling investors out of $945 million and lying about her company’s wonder blood test technology that didn’t work – and put lives at risk.
While the subject matter is serious, many viewers have been marveling at Seyfried’s performance and how expertly she has portrayed the troubled public figure.
The Mean Girls star recently gave an interview with Vanity Fair where she talked about the importance of the role.
Proud: To celebrate the upcoming finale of the show, star Amanda stunned at a special event at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles on Monday
Queen: She is wowing audiences with her portrayal of the notorious Elizabeth Holmes in the Hulu drama series The Dropout
‘I love binging shows, and if the last scene of an eight-hour miniseries isn’t satisfying, it leaves just a bad taste in my mouth. So I knew how important it was,’ she told the publication.
‘There was something that needed to happen that wasn’t necessarily written, or it was written, and I didn’t necessarily know how to portray it, because there’s so many possibilities.’
She added: ‘Screaming also, it was incredibly hard on the body. It’s your whole body. It was almost, and this is not a great word, but I think the scream came from a very petulant place, almost like she was not angry with herself at all.
Cast: Amanda poses with Naveen Andrews who plays Sunny Balwani in the series
Real life characters: Amanda plays Elizabeth Holmes, 38, (left) while Naveen plays her righthand man Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, 56, (right) who was the biotech company’s COO at the time
The star also admitted that she would be interested in a season two of the show.
“I keep putting it out there because I didn’t know how much I was going to enjoy playing her until I was done,” she said.
‘Then even after that, I was like, “I’ll never play her again”‘
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