{"id":125547,"date":"2025-09-01T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125547\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:42:09","slug":"amanda-seyfried-stuns-venice-with-testament-of-ann-lee-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125547\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Seyfried Stuns Venice With ‘Testament of Ann Lee’ Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmanda Seyfried<\/a> was overcome with emotion as her new film \u201cThe Testament of Ann Lee<\/a>,\u201d directed by Mona Fastvold, shook Venice up with a 15-minute ovation \u2014 topping \u201cFrankenstein\u201d as the longest of the festival so far.<\/p>\n

\n\tCo-writer Brady Corbet worked the crowd while a teary-eyed Seyfried pumped her fists in the air as the applause stretched into its seventh minute. Fastvold, the co-writer of last year\u2019s Silver Lion and three-time Oscar winner \u201cThe Brutalist,\u201d beamed at the crowd, overwhelmed by the booming reception. By minute eight, Seyfried whispered to nobody in particular, \u201cWhat are we supposed to be doing now?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMost of the crowd in the orchestra dwindled after 10 minutes in, though the packed audience members in the balcony \u2014 including members of the production and potential buyers \u2014 continued to clap. Corbet and Fastvold made their exit before the applause fully dissipated.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think people quite liked it,\u201d Seyfried told Variety as she left the theatre.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeyfried stars as the titular Ann Lee alongside Lewis Pullman as her brother William Lee. The cast also includes Thomasin McKenzie, Stacy Martin, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbott and Matthew Beard. Described as an \u201cepic fable,\u201d \u201cThe Testament of Ann Lee\u201d is a speculative retelling of Lee\u2019s life as one of the few female religious leaders of the 18th century and details the founding of the Shaker movement. Immigrating from England and originally settling in New York, the Shakers were known for their ecstatic behavior during worship, practicing celibacy and living simply in a communal fashion. Due to their abstinent lifestyle, the movement has since dwindled and there are now only three remaining members.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough it\u2019s not a musical per se, Seyfried does sing in the film, which features music from Oscar-winning \u201cThe Brutalist\u201d composer Daniel Blumberg. Of singing in the film, Seyfried told Variety<\/a>: \u201cSome of it was un-singing. There\u2019s no such thing! De-singing? Anti-singing? A lot of it was animal sounds as opposed to melodic sounds. And it was less about listening to myself.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Seyfried was overcome with emotion as her new film \u201cThe Testament of Ann Lee,\u201d directed by Mona…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[79982,88,79987,24350],"class_list":["post-125547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amanda-seyfried","tag-entertainment","tag-the-testament-of-ann-lee","tag-venice-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}