{"id":478532,"date":"2026-02-19T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478532\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:44:09","slug":"amanda-seyfried-didnt-know-she-was-a-housemaid-ep-until-filming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478532\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Seyfried “Didn’t Know” She Was A ‘Housemaid’ EP Until Filming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWith The Housemaid<\/a> nearing $375M worldwide, Amanda Seyfried recently admitted the extent of her work on the Paul Feig film.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite being credited as an executive producer on the feature adaptation of Freida McFadden\u2019s 2022 novel, the Oscar nominee confessed she \u201cdidn\u2019t do sh*t to make that movie\u201d beyond her onscreen portrayal of Nina Winchester.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCan I tell you something? I\u2019m a producer on it,\u201d she noted on The Graham Norton Show<\/a>. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t know until three weeks in, when I saw the call sheet, and I was like, \u2018Executive producer? I didn\u2019t sign up for that.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSeyfried said she then called a producer on the film, who informed her that her agent negotiated the credit on her behalf. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018This really better be a hit.\u2019 It was one of those vanity credits, \u2019cause I didn\u2019t do sh*t to make that movie. I only acted in it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Testament of Ann Lee star explained that although some actors are given made executive producer as a \u201cvanity credit,\u201d others like fellow guest Margot Robbie put in the actual work.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s the thing about vanity credits,\u201d said Seyfried. \u201cI don\u2019t want people to get it twisted. What Margot [Robbie] does is really intensely developing movies from jump. I just jumped in, had a bunch of fun and left. And now, I\u2019m like, they\u2019re sending me on a vacation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn The Housemaid, Millie (Sydney Sweeney<\/a>) takes a job as a live-in housemaid for a wealthy couple (Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar) who harbor some sinister secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With The Housemaid nearing $375M worldwide, Amanda Seyfried recently admitted the extent of her work on the Paul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,7105,93324],"class_list":["post-478532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-sydney-sweeney","tag-the-housemaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478532","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=478532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}