As Jennifer’s Body plots a resurrection, Amanda Seyfried nonetheless has nothing however reward for the unique.
With the rising possibility of a sequel to the 2009 movie, the Oscar nominee slammed the advertising crew after they “cheapened” and “ruined” the Diablo Cody-written, Karyn Kusama-directed comedy horror that co-starred Megan Fox.
“I can’t critique this film. To me, it’s excellent,” she advised GQ. “It’s bought balls. Diablo Cody was outspoken and exquisite and good and humorous. We had been expressing a sure angst in a really particular, comedic approach in a really particular style. The particular results had been so unimaginable, there have been stunts, there was every little thing you may need.”
Seyfried added, “If the critics criticize something, it might be the advertising. The advertising sucked, it simply did. And all of us agree.”
Though the advertising crew largely capitalized on Fox’s intercourse attraction in try to focus on a youthful male demographic, Jennifer’s Physique has since change into a feminist cult basic for its supposed viewers.
Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried in ‘Jennifer’s Physique’ (2009)
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“The advertising crew cheapened it prefer it was only a gory romp. I believe they ruined it, and I believe Karyn and Diablo had been a very good crew,” mentioned Seyfried. “I really like Needy. It was the primary time I bought to play actually nerdy, carrying the glasses. Megan bought to show right into a demon, it was superior. All of us simply had numerous enjoyable, so I wanna rejoice it by doing a sequel.”
After teasing a potential sequel earlier this month, Seyfried has hopes that Fox’s Jennifer could be resurrected after their bloody finale. “She’s type of useless, proper? However is she? I don’t assume she is,” she mentioned.
Cody beforehand recalled being “fairly humiliated” by the unique’s vital and field workplace failure, telling Bloody Disgusting that the movie’s rising cult fandom has given her renewed inspiration.
“I need to do a sequel. I’m not achieved with Jennifer’s Physique,” mentioned Cody. “I simply want to search out…I have to accomplice with individuals who imagine it in [sic] as a lot as I do and that hasn’t actually occurred but. I want somebody to imagine in it who has a billion {dollars}.”
