Amanda Seyfried is pointing fingers.
In a brand new GQ interview, the 39-year-old actress revealed who she blames for “Jennifer’s Body” flopping on the field workplace when it got here out in 2009.
“If the critics criticize anything, it would be the marketing. The marketing sucked, it just did,” she mentioned. “And we all agree.”
Seyfried, who starred within the comedy horror movie alongside Megan Fox, mentioned the film’s advertising workforce “cheapened it like it was just a gory romp.”
“I think they ruined it,” she added, noting that director Karyn Kusama and screenwriter Diablo Cody “were a really good team.”
“I love Needy. It was the first time I got to play really nerdy, wearing the glasses,” Seyfried continued. “Megan got to turn into a demon, it was awesome. We all just had a lot of fun, so I wanna celebrate it by doing a sequel.”
Seyfried additionally mentioned that she “can’t critique” the movie as a result of, in her opinion, “it’s perfect.”
“It’s got balls. Diablo Cody was outspoken and beautiful and smart and funny,” she mentioned. “We were expressing a certain angst in a very specific, comedic way in a very specific genre. The special effects were so incredible, there were stunts, there was everything you could want.”
“Jennifer’s Body” is a few demonically possessed highschool pupil named Jennifer Examine (Fox) who kills her male classmates to outlive. Seyfried performs Jennifer’s nerdy greatest buddy, Needy Lesnicki.
The movie didn’t make a splash in film theaters on the time. Nonetheless, it’s since garnered a cult following.
Earlier this month, Seyfried instructed The Hollywood Reporter that she thinks “Jennifer’s Body” has “aged well.”
“I thought ‘Jennifer’s Body’ was going to be huge. Diablo Cody, Karyn Kusama, Megan Fox … we had all the ingredients, and it just didn’t happen,” she mentioned.
“I think there’s going to be another one of that, too,” Seyfried added a few doable sequel. “We’re all game.”
Fox, for her half, mentioned making “Jennifer’s Body 2” in an interview with The Washington Put up in 2021.
“I don’t think it’s a hard movie to make a sequel to,” she mentioned. “I mean, they should make it into a TV series. That would be cool.”
Cody, 46, teased a possible sequel whereas chatting with Nylon final yr.
“I think that was always my dream, but I certainly didn’t think it would be realistic,” the screenwriter mentioned. “People rarely want to make sequels to films that don’t perform. Now I feel like it could be a possibility.”
“I’m ready to go,” added Cody. “I just need to assemble the right team that believes in me.”
