“I already said thumbs up. I was like, ‘Whenever you’re ready, I’m ready,'” said the actress
Amanda Seyfried thinks Jennifer’s Body was a “perfect movie” and never got the chance to succeed because of its marketing strategy. In a new interview with GQ, Seyfried said the 2009 film deserved better — and she’s ready to reprise her role to celebrate it.
“I’m looking forward to the sequel. They’re working on it. I already said thumbs up. I was like, ‘Whenever you’re ready, I’m ready,’” said Seyfried. “We all just had a lot of fun, so I wanna celebrate it by doing a sequel.”
Reflecting on the original Karyn Kusama-directed film, Seyfriend said, “It’s got balls,” noting that the movie expressed “a certain angst in a very, very specific, comedic way in a very specific genre.” She added, “There was everything you could want.”
“If the critics criticize anything it would be the marketing. The marketing sucked. It just did. And we all agree,” Seyfried added. “The marketing team cheapened it like it was just, you know, a romp, a gory romp. I think they ruined it.”
Seyfried starred alongside Megan Fox in the cult classic. The star said that she and Fox made a “really good team” on set. Fox previously shared a similar “mismarketed” perspective on the film during a 2019 interview for Entertainment Tonight to celebrate its 10th anniversary. “I do feel like obviously it was mismarketed, and I think probably you feel a lot of anger about that, right? Or you did at the time?” she said, as Diablo Cody, who wrote Jennifer’s Body, responded, “I still do.”
Last year, Cody told People that she was working on a reboot or sequel. “When it came out, the movie was not a success,” she told the outlet at the time. “And that was incredibly painful for me, because I loved that movie and it was such a personal project for me. I was badly injured.”
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