Amanda Seyfried reacts to Elizabeth Holmes beginning her prison sentence  

Seriously it was all business for her

Yep

My god and people talk about Lana rhoades kid having it tough, imagine the whole reason of your existence being to bail your psychotic mom out of jail

She meant it mainly as literally having to put yourself in the person’s shoes to play them. Probably helped she didn’t play it much when she had kids lol

Without any amount of empathy it would be hard to understand why people do the things they do and without understanding that it would be hard to prevent them from doing it in the future. I think Amanda is absolutely correct here that everyone deserves at least someone to understand them and their behavior and the ways they think because otherwise how can we prevent people like them from gaining that amount of influence in the future? And also as someone who studied in theatre for years, actors put themselves into the shoes of some really awful characters (some characters based on real people) sometimes and their job as an actor is to portray that person authentically to convey what the work is intending to convey. And in order to do that the actor has to have empathy. To be clear empathy does not necessarily mean you feel bad for a person. It means you understand their perspective. You can have empathy for someone without agreeing with them or their actions.

Thannnnnk you

She did give the answer in case you weren't paying attention, she clearly said we portrayed her in a way that people can see her psyche and that's compassion and empathy, and I think everyone deserves that. She has become sympathetic to Elizabeth after doing the series and that's exactly what she said. She did however didn't deny that "other people were involved" which was very nice of her (sarcasm).

@@toobaaaapiI disagree with this take. She never says she has sympathy for her. There’s a difference between having enough empathy to portray a character (yes even one based off of a real person) authentically. You can have empathy for a person and not feel sorry for them. And I’ve found in watching other clips of her talking about this that she does not seem to feel sorry for Elizabeth. She feels sorry for all of the people affected by her actions, but to come out and say that she hates her or whatever would likely not create as much intrigue around the character that Amanda portrayed and people would therefore be less likely to go watch the show. And speaking as an actor you have to have empathy and compassion to authentically portray a character, even a villain because the fact is it’s very rare for someone to actually see themselves as a villain, so you have to understand where their motivations come from. It’s a very tricky line to toe and that’s why the ones who are very successful at it get accolades and awards.

@@chelseaoconnor3261 she didn't say sympathy but she clearly said compassion, they are very similar if not the same.

She answered the question. Your attention span is just rotted from social media.

Hm

Seriously. They made a fortune $$$$$ from this series.

That’s how it works when you work.

Yes how dare it be about money and she actually liking the acting challenge/project.

I don't think that's what she meant. She said that Elizabeth deserves it. "At the end of the day, life isn't fair for many, but it was fair for her (for Elizabeth Holmes)" - she said in another interview

At the end of the answer she shows how she doesn’t have empathy for her dumbass. If she didn’t have empathy for the character then she would not have won an Emmy and interpreted her so well. She is an amazing actress

@todor7906 Not sure what you just said, I read it but I cant put it together , sorry.

do ya gotta bring gender into this

@@starryeyes999 I'll bring whatever I want into the conversation

well she doesn’t play male characters, as she’s a woman, so we’ll never know!

@@starryeyes999 It's true, there's privilege being afforded to Holmes. She's even trying to gaslight her way into 'it wasn't my fault, I'm a good person.' She blatantly used pregnancy privilege to avoid jail. Surely, you want equality between people?

@@user-mk5dj3bk5q ok then: hows your relationship with your mother

Yes

🙄 Stop. The point isn’t that hard to grasp.

It is. It's called cognitive empathy. Sociopaths can have cognitive empathy. You're thinking of affective empathy.

well said..grfo

Comprehension isn’t your strong suit.

* Amanda lol

She doesn't have to say much with that massive rack.