You can’t help but wonder if Mamma Mia! will be the breakthrough role for Amanda Seyfried. True, audiences have seen her in Mean Girls and Big Love, but she’s in a much bigger spotlight here, singing and acting alongside Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, and Colin Firth.

“Before I got the role, I used to sing, but not professionally,” she tells The Daily Mail, “and as soon as I heard about Mamma Mia! I knew I had to do it. I was nervous singing for [ABBA members] Benny and Björn and I just did the best I could.”

Adds Seyfried, “But nothing in the film was really that challenging as I was basically playing myself. Sophie’s a young girl excited about life, so it just felt right.”

That’s not the only thing that felt right, apparently. Though you rarely hear such talk when these things fizzle, the 22-year-old actress is remarkably candid about her on-set fling with her on-screen fiancé Dominic Cooper. In real life, Seyfried was in a two-year relationship with actor and musician Jesse Marchant, and Cooper had been with the same girl for 12 years, although that relationship apparently survived the dalliance.

“I just found him funny and it was like we were the same person – except that he’s British, almost 30 and a man,” gushes the ebullient actress. “We both look like frogs with our wide-set eyes, we’re both indecisive and neither of us has a lot of willpower.”

You don’t hear phraseology like that everyday to describe the spark of love: Low willpower? Check. Indecisive? Check. Toady? Check.

As for the one she left behind, Jesse Marchant? “‘I mean, I think he’s the one to be with and marry but not right now. I just hope he’s still in love with me six years from now.”

She certainly has a different perspective on things, doesn’t she?

But she does talk about her work in the Daily Mail piece including her optimism about Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Now, a couple of weeks back, we reported that somebody you’d really have to unspool the mental rolodex to find was tapped for the role. But the sources sounded fishy and there was supposed be a press release about it last week, which never materialized.

“I think I’m a real candidate for that. I mean, I’m not even close [to being cast] and it’s very far away, but I want it really badly because I respect him so much as a director.” Amanda adds, ” He likes weird-looking people for his movies, so I’m really hoping.”

Source: Get the Big Picture