Amanda Seyfried Thinks Megan Fox’s Character Survived Jennifer’s Physique

In an interview with GQ, Amanda Seyfried broke down her most iconic characters—together with her main position within the Diablo Cody-written Jennifer’s Body reverse Megan Fox. The movie, directed by Karyn Kusama, wasn’t an prompt hit however through the years since its 2009 launch has constructed up a stable cult fandom that’s propelling talk of a sequel.

Within the interview, Seyfried expressed her love for the movie and its universe.

“I can’t critique this film. It’s an ideal film. It’s acquired balls. Diablo Cody was outspoken and delightful and good and humorous. And we have been expressing a sure angst in a really, very particular comedic approach in a really particular style. God, the particular results have been so unimaginable,” she remembered. “There [were] stunts. There was like every part that you can need and woman on woman motion.”

Jennifer’s Physique wasn’t precisely marketed to its correct audience—angsty teen women—and Seyfried is properly conscious of how that labored towards the movie again in 2009.

“If the critics criticized something, it could be the advertising and marketing. The advertising and marketing sucked. It simply did and all of us agree. Karyn is sort of a fierce advocate of ladies in storytelling,” Seyfried stated. “She is ready to improve the relationships between ladies on movie and TV. She’s in a position to mine every part she will be able to and she or he’s very, very human and she or he’s very delicate. However I felt like she cared deeply about this story beneath all of it. She simply acquired all of it and she or he put it collectively so superbly and the advertising and marketing group cheapened it prefer it was simply, , a romp, a gory romp. I feel they ruined it and I feel that Karyn and Diablo have been a extremely good group. And Megan and I are a extremely good group.”

Fortunately the movie was revisited and located harmless of the movie crimes film bros accused it of, and has since gained a cult following. It deserved its welcome as that period’s entry into the pantheon of “puberty as a monster” style movies like Ginger Snaps earlier than it. Might a sequel provide Jennifer’s Physique the last word redemption? Seyfried hopes so.

“I’m trying ahead to the sequel,” she stated. “They’re engaged on it. I already stated thumbs up. I used to be like, everytime you’re prepared, I’m prepared. As a result of I wish to play [an adult version of my character] Needy. I really like Needy. It additionally was the primary time I acquired to play actually nerdy, and Megan acquired to show right into a fucking demon. And it was superior. All of us simply had numerous enjoyable. So I wish to have a good time it by doing the sequel.”

Seyfried riffed on the place she thought Needy may’ve ended up. “I simply wish to see Needy in an influence place. Not essentially in an influence go well with however in an influence place. You already know, possibly she runs her department at Deliberate Parenthood or one thing. She’s a badass.”

However how are you going to have a Jennifer’s Physique sequel with out Megan Fox’s Jennifer? In any case, Needy stabbed her within the tit, er, coronary heart on the finish of the movie. To that finish, Seyfried teased, “And I don’t know, the place would Megan be? She’s in all probability like any person’s chief of workers. However she’s sort of useless, proper? However is she? I don’t suppose she is.”

If Needy ended up being an unreliable narrator of the occasions of the movie and turned out to be the Will Graham to Jennifer’s Hannibal, we’d be so useless. It will completely match into the theories that abound the unstated pressure between them of their poisonous relationship, and we might see that being fascinating to discover now that they’re lengthy out of highschool. Disney must make this occur and have Jennifer return because the Satan’s Kettle native hang-out legend.

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