The Dropout: Amanda Seyfried on Transforming into Elizabeth Holmes

[@onefootsteve5919]

Whatever her process was, it worked like a charm. Her performance is really something special.

[@antmagor]

What I love about her performance is that she took the time to appreciate the complete lack of information from behind closed doors. The acknowledgment of the artistic licensing that’s needed in a piece of work like this, and the acknowledgment of the responsibility to keep it true to the evidence and the things we know for a fact. I think that’s what’s really selling this show as a whole.

[@artconsciousness]

Amanda Seyfried's performance in 'The Drop Out' is outstanding. It was so good I started getting confused with the real Elizabeth Holmes.

[@mims1992-y6c]

Amanda Seyfried's performance in 'The Drop Out' is PHENOMENAL. It's nuanced and complex, really gives a realistic portrayal of the character. Give her all the awards next year!!

[@GC-pq6vm]

I definitely misjudged Amanda. I adore her and think she’s a wonderful actress but didn’t think she was a good fit. She’s too adorable lol. Boy, was I wrong. She captured the mannerisms and awkwardness perfectly. I love her performance.

[@bayernlover1]

she was able to make her human , for that she deserves an award for that performance

[@thelonelyghosts9004]

I watched the Emmys just to see if she would win - and she did 🏆 So happy for her!

[@malecforevs6038]

Aww love such moment...the Extra correspondents are people with very cool backgrounds..love when other celebrities recognise them❤️❤️

[@seanpaulcurran]

She needs to win al the nominated awards for what she's done with this role.

[@societycrumbles]

The series is fantastic so far. Amanda is doing a great job.

[@Anthonyprinciotti]

Seyfried does a great job, but the mini-series makes Holmes a far more sympathetic figure than she deserves. The sheer ruthlessness of her effort to sustain her fraud resulted (for starters) in the suicide of one of her chief scientists, false positive blood tests that indicated the presence various types of cancer and middle class workers having to pay tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

[@EriiikaGuerra]

Humm not sure about that. The show is making me despise her even more. And the comments I read on the internet people are also grossed out by her.

[@SpongiformSpongee]

I felt like this about the first few episodes which made them hard to watch. She was being portrayed as a victim: a young, naive, ambitious person afraid of failure who was groomed by an older man. The last few episodes have portrayed her as the psychopath she is so I'm happy with the show's progression.

[@Anthonyprinciotti]

@@SpongiformSpongee The scene I had a problem with was the one at the party where she raises the prospect of simply stopping to her mother, who strongly rejects the idea and essentially tells Elizabeth that she must succeed to lead the family back to the elite status it deserves. As far as I know, the narrative laid out in that scene is an invention, and there's little evidence to substantiate the idea that she committed her bad acts due to internal pressure from her family.

[@debbiemac1923]

I actually had to skip through some of the scenes, they made me so angry. Holmes and her boyfriend both deserve jail time.

[@EriiikaGuerra]

@@Anthonyprinciotti well but her mom said that because she thought the technology worked. We as the spectators, know that her mom is being mislead and lied to by Holmes, so her being pressured by her mom is invalid here since she knows her technology was shit. Idk I just don’t feel like the show is giving off any good in her tbh. Amanda Seyfried though, gives interviews almost admiring Holmes and that makes me so uncomfortable. I love Amanda but she’s being whack.

[@mosdefnelly2358]

Even though she was honestly being genuine in this interview she played that character so well I can't help but side eye her 😅

[@ranro7371]

she actually teared up. Goals for wife, her level of beauty on inside, outside.

[@darlingsarah5243]

"This isn't JUST My job... this is WHO I Am" .... ♡ ❤ that...

[@LarryLeeMoniz]

She is an extraordinary actress, and absolutely NAILS Elizabeth Holmes PERFECTLY!

[@Ericdsvt]

Those two were great together on the show!

[@RickDistance]

I don't care what other say. I like Amanda Seyfried and I watched only the trailer but because of the amount of screentime I would say it's the role of her life. Her portraying Lucifer before the fall and step by step glitching out of God's firm is spectacular visualisation of war in heaven. I don't know why people in my environment are afraid of her, but I am not the guy who burns "witches" on stake. They live in their M.Night Shyanmalan village of dark ages but I am progressive I like it when japanese people are armed with a smartphone. No rubbish on the street everybody behave shy. I only watched "Mean Girls", "Chloe" and the movie in which the old lady wanted an epic description in gazette after life. It's so digging in deep into the storyline and space and head of this fictional Elisabeth Holmes based on true one, it screams addiction binge watch it over and over again. But it's dangerous to give such frauds a platform. It encourages a few to imitate this kind of crime. Like the russiam lady who cheated the high society and now you can watch her movie on netflix. Or the girl who send sms to boyfriend making suicide and he did! Weird. But I am lucky that Seyfried had fun to portray EH in this cultic way. Seems addictive and to die for. Release date in my country is on 20th April. I have to be patient.

[@terminallumbago5582]

She did a really great job. I couldn’t believe how accurate her mannerisms were.

[@darlingsarah5243]

@0:21 The RED Dress is everything!!!! 🌹

[@JoiaInATL]

Amanda is so personable, and Elizabeth was so awkward I wonder how hard it was for her

[@jacobsed6665]

Great interview

[@hollymichelle3705]

He looking more comfortable in his videos and ya girl is hereeee for itttt!!

[@robbyten100]

I like the series and it's a good performance but it is quite sympathetic to Holmes. Yes people are complex and maybe at first she wanted to help people. However, she knowingly scammed people and harmed patients with a product she knew couldn't work. Doesnt seem like a person who deserves sympathy.

[@MP-rf8vg]

Yeah the first 2 episodes were very sympathetic towards Holmes, but these later episodes (3&4) definitely show her morphing into a monster.

[@vicodincreamer4831]

The fact she made her more human makes it absolutely terrifying. I cant believe Holmes lasted that long

[@EriiikaGuerra]

Hum I don’t know about that. The show is making despise Holmes even more.

[@robbyten100]

@@EriiikaGuerra you are right. The show is making her look like a sociopath which she probably is

[@yeetdeets]

@@MP-rf8vg That makes the entire show very sympathetic though. Psychopathy isn't acquired, it's something you are born with. The show would have you believe she was just a naive little girl who went with the flow, propped up by the men surrounding her.

[@Blinkptx]

She's a much better actress than I ever gave her credit for. I haven't seen her in much, but I always think of her in Mean Girls.

[@monharris28]

this show is crazy, i can't believe people collaborated with her without checking the stupid box

[@jg-di5it]

Amanda is way too attractive to play Elizabeth Holmes.

[@анниелниф]

Nooo big wife crazy eyes ))

[@whale2207]

She is doing such a great job that I hate the character hard. It's hard to discern which one is who?

[@AnakinVeyder]

Her transformation into a deep voice intimidating demon is Oscar worthy!

[@malecforevs6038]

Btw really looking forward to seeing the film 💯

[@isabellind1292]

You can watch any hour long documentary and see everything you need to see about Elizabot. It's hardly worth spending money to see but I'm sure it strokes her precious ego.

[@aprilgarrett2596]

I'm excited for this!!

[@karthu1993]

She is brilliant!!!

[@daeona]

She really killed it...

[@lizziebuggio]

She’s so sweet

[@geddylee4082]

Elizabeth Holmes barrotone voice was modeled after Yoda. " Do or do not there is no try".

[@usamarafieck1715]

How do you get into Stanford?

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

"Theranos" sounds like a comic book super villain.

[@anak2094]

I love Amanda seyfried

[@itsanniesdi]

Naveen is too hot to play Sunny lol. But he’s great in the show and Amanda is a force ✨

[@DanaArmas]

She will Won Oscar

[@ShredderTainment]

I wonder if she will get to watch the dropout in prison...🤔

[@rissajayy]

Doubt it

[@armandoucles5346]

Amanda Seyfried was phenomenal as Holmes, but Naveen Andrews as Sunny was also phenomenal. I have never seen him play such a despicable person like him. Unlike the real Sunny, Andrews is a real handsome man.

[@ginahall2760]

She did amazing !!! I used to love her now I hate her as Elizabeth 😂

[@feraudyh]

She's perhaps too pretty for the role ;)

[@dannyo5364]

Sunny Balwani did not look remotely like that lol

[@sanayakalambe1418]

Amanda aced it ❤️

[@timothyroberg8682]

Love Amanda, but her eyes is why she was cast 4 this part

[@victoriasmith5396]

All that studying paid off big time

[@hussienalsafi1149]

😘😘😘🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@laurencehyde2168]

She's smart..she's now married to a multi millionaire who is set to inherit a chain of hotels..she's good..lol

[@ranro7371]

did you confuse Sadoski with Hilton? She's richer than he is

[@jackeroo75]

Did she learn mandarin?

[@MichaelLudden]

"I bought a laptop just for this" - wut

[@jacobsed6665]

What do you mean

[@onefootsteve5919]

She's not much of a techie. Most of her IG is pictures of her animals.