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Amanda Seyfried candidly reveals the one major reason she has stopped doing sex scenes
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Amanda Seyfried has opened up about why she turns down any roles that involve sex scenes, as she refuses to film them.
Sex scenes can be a divisive topic for many actors - some aren't fazed by them and are happy partake if the plot requires it, while others either require a body double for intimate scenes, or just flat-out refuse to do them altogether.
Seyfried, 40, recently opened up about why she's turned down opportunities over the requirement to film sex scenes, including one in a television series.
Speaking on a panel hosted by Alec Baldwin at the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 4, Seyfried revealed: "I passed on a show where I would have to have sex all the time because of the sex.
"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," People reported.
She added: "Maybe if [the project] came along again [at a later point], maybe I’d be in a different space. But I don’t wanna deal with being naked with a stranger."
Seyfried admitted that her kids also influence her decisions and the things she says yes and no to, adding: "I have kids now who are paying attention to what I do."
The Mean Girls star is a mother to daughter Nina, nine, and son Thomas, six, who she shares with her estranged husband Thomas Sadoski.
Seyfried admitted she wasn't so dead set against love scenes in the past, explaining: "Our jobs are weird. And as I get older, it gets weirder. We have to be romantic with people that we’re not romantic with.
"Sometimes it’s great. Sometimes it’s really uncomfortable. But 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.'
"And it used to be so fun. It was a non-thing. It was like, ‘I get to make out with a hot person today … And they’re paying me.'"
Seyfried is not the only star who's turned down sex scenes, as Penn Badgley previously revealed he no longer partakes in them.
In 2023, ahead of You season four, Badgley revealed that he'd requested not to have any intimate scenes.
He explained on his podcast, Podcrushed: "This is actually a decision I’d made before I took the show.
"I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it publicly, but one of the main things is like, ‘Do I wanna put myself back on a career path where I’m just always a romantic lead?’
"It’s really important to me … Fidelity in every relationship - and especially my marriage - is important to me, and it just got to a point where I didn’t wanna do that.
"Then, of course, before I took the show is there a question of, ‘Do I have a career if I don’t?’ I mean, you know, think about every male lead you’ve loved. Are they kissing someone? Are they doing a lot more than that? It’s really not my desire to."