Amanda Seyfried is grappling with the state of America.

“Did we ever think this is where we would be as Americans?” she asks, her voice catching. “No. Because America felt like the best place to be.”

It’s a vulnerable moment during a conversation that spans the spectrum — including her towering performance in “ The Testament of Ann Lee ,” her famous Thanksgiving pie-baking tradition, and the unexpected ways a period film about a 18th-century religious leader speaks to our fractured present.

Between promotional appearances, Seyfried is homesick, missing her kids on her upstate New York farm while contemplating what Ann Lee’s utopian vision means in 2025.

“Thank God we’re talking about Ann Lee so much, because there’s a direct relationship to what she created and what we’re lacking,”

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