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Amanda Seyfried described her experience using a “prosthetic butthole” in the film “The Testament of Ann Lee” as both “cool” and “exciting.”
During her appearance on “The Scott Mills Breakfast Show” on Wednesday, the actress shared that the film required certain scenes to be quite graphic.
The 40-year-old Oscar nominee recounted, “I was pregnant and appeared nude, but in reality, I wasn’t exposed at all. By the movie’s conclusion, I’m in front of a blazing building wearing only a merkin.”
Seyfried expressed a sense of liberation, explaining that she “felt so free” wearing just the artificial hairpiece while portraying the historical figure Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers.
As the interview wrapped up, Seyfried made it clear, “You won’t actually see my butthole in that scene, but there is definitely a prosthetic one there.”
Scott Mills asked, “Why did they have one if we don’t see it?”
Seyfried said it was a “just in case” precaution — and when Mills called her comment a “great way to end an interview,” she began giggling.
“Gotta get people to the theater!” the former soap star exclaimed.
The moment was clipped to the show’s Instagram page, with one follower gushing, “She’s such a weirdo i LOVE her.”
Another fan added, “I think her entire press run for this production should be a movie.”
Seyfried called the film “f–king daunting” in a Who What Wear cover story last year.
“I feel like I have to keep choosing things that terrify me — within reason,” she noted in the December 2025 interview. “I’m not gonna jump off a cliff or jump out of an airplane.”
However, Seyfried said, “I need to sink my teeth into something that is really scary because I know I can do it, and I know I’ll be better for it.”
The “Big Love” alum received a 15-minute standing ovation when the movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2025.
Seyfried was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the role, losing the latter to Rose Byrne — and going viral for grimacing over the loss.
While awaiting the 2026 Academy Awards next month, Seyfried asked the New Yorker why she would she “need [to win] one now?”
She explained in January, “I’ve gotten this far. … Would [an Oscar] be great? Of course it would, for every reason. But it isn’t necessary.”