Amanda Seyfried says there was once nothing to it: "I get to make out with a hot person today … And they're paying me." These days, she's turned down a whole show because of the sex scenes.
The actress, 40, said at a Hamptons International Film Festival panel hosted by Alec Baldwin on Oct. 4 that she passed on a series that would have required her to have sex on screen constantly. She didn't name the show, according to Complex.
"I passed on a show where I would have to have sex all the time because of the sex," Seyfried said, as quoted by Page Six, which credits People for the quotes. "Doesn't matter [who it's with] ... I don't wanna do it. I'm uncomfortable with it. I'm not into it right now."
It's a notable shift from how she described the work earlier in her career. Sex scenes, she said, used to be "a non-thing." She also laughed about her younger self: "I can't believe back in the day I was just like, 'We gotta make out. Great! This is awesome. I know how to make out.'"
Her take on the job has gotten more complicated with time. "Our jobs are weird," she told Baldwin. "And as I get older, it gets weirder. We have to be romantic with people that we're not romantic with." Sometimes, she added, "it's great. Sometimes it's really uncomfortable."
She also pointed to her kids, daughter Nina, 9, and son Thomas, 6. "I have kids now who are paying attention to what I do," Seyfried said, per Page Six.
She didn't rule out changing her mind. "Maybe if [the project] came along again [at a later point], maybe I'd be in a different space," she said. "But I don't wanna deal with being naked with a stranger."
She has plenty to work on in the meantime. Seyfried stars in The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, directed by Tim Blake Nelson, which premiered at the Hamptons festival two weeks after its Toronto International Film Festival debut. It doesn't yet have a theatrical release date, according to People's report via Yahoo Entertainment.