Amanda Seyfried had a “cool” and “exciting” time using a “prosthetic butthole” on the set of “The Testament of Ang Lee.”
“This movie needed to be… raw,” the actress explained Wednesday on “The Scott Mills Breakfast Show.”
The 40-year-old Oscar nominee recalled: “I was pregnant and naked, but I wasn’t naked at all. And at the end of the movie, I’m standing in front of a burning building with just my merkin.”
Seyfried said that the moment she played the role of real-life Shakers founder Ang Lee, she felt “so free” just by wearing synthetic hair.
At the end of the interview, Seyfried clarified, “You can’t see my butthole[in the scene]but I swear there’s a prosthetic one in there.”
Scott Mills asked, “Why did they have it if we didn’t see it?”
Seyfried said it was a precaution “just in case” and when Mills called her comment “a great way to end the interview,” she started laughing.
“We need to get people into the theater!” exclaimed the former soap star.
The moment was captured on the show’s Instagram page, with one follower raving: “She’s such a weirdo, I love her.”
Another fan added, “I think all her press work for this work should be made into a movie.”
Seyfried called the film “mind-boggling” in her Who What Were cover story last year.
“I feel like I have to continue to choose things that scare me, within reason,” she said in a December 2025 interview. “I’m not going to jump off a cliff or jump out of a plane.”
But Seyfried said, “I have to really take on something really scary because I know I can do it and I know it’s better.”
The “Big Love” alum received a 15-minute standing ovation when the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2025.
Seyfried was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the role, but lost out to Rose Byrne for the latter, and became an internet sensation for her regrets over the loss.
While waiting for next month’s 2026 Academy Awards ceremony, Seyfried asked The New Yorker why she “needs to get an award now.”
She explained in January, “I’ve come this far. … Would[an Oscar]be great? Of course it would be for all sorts of reasons. But it’s not necessary.”
