Amanda Seyfried Says She 'Always Wanted to Play a Cop' Before JoiningLong Bright RiverCast (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Amanda Seyfried as Mickey Fitzpatrick in Peacock’s ‘Long Bright River’.Photo:Matt Infante/PEACOCK

Matt Infante/PEACOCK

Amanda Seyfriedlanded a dream role with her latest project.Speaking with PEOPLE, the actress, 39, says that she was immediately drawn to her new role as police officer Mickey Fitzpatrick on the new Peacock limited seriesLong Bright River.“I’ve always wanted to play a cop,” Seyfried says. “It’s like a childhood dream to play somebody that I just was always in awe of, even though it’s funny [because] I’m not good with authority.”

Long Bright River, adapted from Liz Moore’s2020 novel of the same name, follows Mickey, who works in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. After three women are found dead, Mickey jumps on the case, as well as the search for her missing sister Kacey (Ashleigh Cummings).

Dash Mihok as Lafferty and Amanda Seyfried as Mickey in Peacock’s ‘Long Bright River’.David Holloway/PEACOCK

David Holloway/PEACOCK

“One of the facets of her character is that she’s actually not that talented as a police officer. The police work does not come naturally to her,” Moore tells PEOPLE. “In some ways, I think she was meant to do something else, but the circumstances of her life have combined to make police work what she’s doing at this moment.”

Seyfried says that playing a character like Mickey was appealing for her as an actor, as it provided her with a range of material to work with.

The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!“That’s attractive to me because it’s attractive to me to have a lot of balls in the air as a character…very specific parameters are really fun because it’s like a puzzle for me,” she adds. “I need a lot of guidance and a lot of information, and I like studying things and I just love going into worlds that I don’t know. For me, it’s the journey…I need to make sure that I’m not going to get bored while I’m away from my kids.”

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Seyfried, who is set to star in and executive producethe upcoming film adaptationof Freida McFadden’s novelThe Housemaid, also highlights the importance of telling the community’s stories authentically. Though the show was not filmed in Kensington, the team incorporated on-set consultants from within the community and also cast local actors.

source: people.com