Amanda Seyfried landed a dream position along with her newest venture.
Talking with PEOPLE, the actress, 39, says that she was instantly drawn to her new position as police officer Mickey Fitzpatrick on the brand new Peacock restricted collection Lengthy Shiny River.
“I’ve at all times wished to play a cop,” Seyfried says. “It is like a childhood dream to play any person that I simply was at all times in awe of, though it is humorous [because] I am not good with authority.”
Lengthy Shiny River, tailored from Liz Moore’s 2020 novel of the same name, follows Mickey, who works within the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. After three girls are discovered lifeless, Mickey jumps on the case, in addition to the seek for her lacking sister Casey (Ashleigh Cummings).
Moore, who serves as an govt producer on the collection alongside Seyfried and showrunner Nikki Toscano, notes the complexities of Mickey’s character, notably because it pertains to her job. Lengthy Shiny River questions the notion of police in a group affected by the opioid disaster.
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“One of many aspects of her character is that she’s truly not that gifted as a police officer. The police work doesn’t come naturally to her,” Moore tells PEOPLE. “In some methods, I believe she was meant to do one thing else, however the circumstances of her life have mixed to make police work what she’s doing at this second.”
Seyfried says that enjoying a personality like Mickey was interesting for her as an actor, because it offered her with a spread of fabric to work with.
”This can be a woman that has acquired a whole lot of points, a whole lot of traumas,” Seyfried says. “She’s a cop, she has a child, she’s a single mom, and she or he’s flexing and attempting to get by and she or he has all these tasks. It simply appeared prefer it was chaos for her.”
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“That is enticing to me as a result of it is enticing to me to have a whole lot of balls within the air as a personality…very particular parameters are actually enjoyable as a result of it is like a puzzle for me,” she provides. “I want a whole lot of steerage and a whole lot of info, and I like learning issues and I simply love going into worlds that I do not know. For me, it is the journey…I have to be sure that I am not going to get bored whereas I am away from my children.”
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Seyfried, who is about to star in and govt produce the upcoming movie adaptation of Freida McFadden’s novel The Housemaid, additionally highlights the significance of telling the group’s tales authentically. Although the present was not filmed in Kensington, the workforce included on-set consultants from throughout the group and likewise forged native actors.
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“It simply grounds it to a complete different stage, and you’ll’t actually discover TV this grounded in actuality lately. It is only a actually uncommon expertise for me as an actor on a set like this,” she says.
”There was simply a lot care in telling the story in the best approach…We will see ourselves in every of those individuals, and that is the purpose of storytelling, is to share and relate.”
Lengthy Shiny River is now streaming on Peacock.
