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 instantaneous 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 received balls. Diablo Cody was outspoken and exquisite and good and humorous. And we had been expressing a sure angst in a really, very particular comedic manner in a really particular style. God, the particular results had been so unimaginable,” she remembered. “There [were] stunts. There was like every little thing that you would need and lady on lady motion.”

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

“If the critics criticized something, it will 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 girls in storytelling,” Seyfried mentioned. “She is ready to improve the relationships between girls on movie and TV. She’s capable of mine every little thing she will be able to and he or she’s very, very human and he or she’s very delicate. However I felt like she cared deeply about this story beneath all of it. She simply received all of it and he or she put it collectively so fantastically and the advertising and marketing workforce cheapened it prefer it was simply, you realize, a romp, a gory romp. I feel they ruined it and I feel that Karyn and Diablo had been a extremely good workforce. And Megan and I are a extremely good workforce.”

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 final word redemption? Seyfried hopes so.

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

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

However how will you have a Jennifer’s Physique sequel with out Megan Fox’s Jennifer? In spite of everything, 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 individual’s chief of employees. However she’s form 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 might be so useless. It could completely match into the theories that abound the unstated rigidity 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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