With a cast of offbeat characters that included a talking racoon and a huge living tree, Guardians of the Galaxy could easily have been a disaster for Marvel Studios, but the film proved to be a huge hit, going on spawning several sequels, a holiday special, and other various spinoffs. One person who believed Guardians of the Galaxy would be a flop was Amanda Seyfried, who actually turned down the role of Gamora, but she doesn’t have any regrets.
Amanda Seyfried on Guardians of the Galaxy
It’s hard to imagine anyone other than Zoe Saldaña as Gamora, but in somewhere else in the Multiverse, Seyfried could have been the favourite daughter of Thanos. During a SAG-AFTRA interview, Seyfried says she turned down the role before it just felt so obvious that the movie was going to bomb.
“I think turning down Guardians of the Galaxy was just so obvious to me at the time,” Seyfried said. “I’m like, ‘This is not going to be a hit. The tree and the raccoon are talking to each other. And also they’re all in space.’ And I was just like, ‘This will ruin my career if this is bad. And there’s a high chance that this could be bad.’“
All these years later, Seyfried can admit she was wrong, but even knowing what a success the series became, she doesn’t regret turning down Guardians of the Galaxy.
“I mean, obviously I was wrong. But I still don’t take back that decision. I made it for myself. I made it for my family that I knew I wanted to have,” She said. “And I just don’t want to spend all the time in the makeup trailer. I just can’t sit still anyway. I really don’t like stunts, and I don’t like heights, and I don’t like pretending the entire world. I need something to hold on to.“
You Can See Everything
Several years ago, Seyfried played Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the disgraced biotechnology company Theranos, in The Dropout. And Holmes is back in the news as the subject of Nathan Fielder’s documentary You Can See Everything. Our own Chris Bumbray was blown away by the film.
“You Can See Everything strikes me as a monumental achievement—not only as a film but also as a way of pushing the documentary form forward,” he wrote. “It’s utterly compelling, and the definitive depiction of a story that’s already been told to death through documentaries, a TV series (The Dropout), and tons of articles and books. It’s a movie that wrestles with an enigma while refusing to tell us what to think or feel. It answers questions with other questions and will likely become one of the most talked-about films of the year.” You can check out the rest of his review right here.
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