Amanda Seyfried ‘At all times Wished to Play a Cop’ Earlier than ‘Lengthy Vibrant River’ (Unique)

Amanda Seyfried landed a dream function along with her newest mission.

Talking with PEOPLE, the actress, 39, says that she was instantly drawn to her new function as police officer Mickey Fitzpatrick on the brand new Peacock restricted collection Lengthy Vibrant River.

“I’ve at all times wished to play a cop,” Seyfried says. “It is like a childhood dream to play someone that I simply was at all times in awe of, though it is humorous [because] I am not good with authority.”

Lengthy Vibrant River, tailored from Liz Moore’s 2020 novel of the identical identify, follows Mickey, who works within the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. After three ladies are discovered useless, Mickey jumps on the case, in addition to the seek for her lacking sister Casey (Ashleigh Cummings).

Moore, who serves as an government producer on the collection alongside Seyfried and showrunner Nikki Toscano, notes the complexities of Mickey’s character, notably because it pertains to her job. Lengthy Vibrant River questions the notion of police in a neighborhood affected by the opioid disaster.

“One of many sides of her character is that she’s really not that gifted as a police officer. The police work doesn’t come naturally to her,” Moore tells PEOPLE. “In some methods, I believe she was meant to do one thing else, however the circumstances of her life have mixed to make police work what she’s doing at this second.”

Seyfried says that enjoying a personality like Mickey was interesting for her as an actor, because it supplied her with a variety of fabric to work with.

”This can be a woman that has obtained loads of points, loads of traumas,” Seyfried says. “She’s a cop, she has a child, she’s a single mom, and he or she’s flexing and making an attempt to get by and he or she has all these tasks. It simply appeared prefer it was chaos for her.”

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“That is enticing to me as a result of it is enticing to me to have loads of balls within the air as a personality…very particular parameters are actually enjoyable as a result of it is like a puzzle for me,” she provides. “I would like loads of steerage and loads of info, and I like learning issues and I simply love going into worlds that I do not know. For me, it is the journey…I must make it possible for I am not going to get bored whereas I am away from my youngsters.”

Seyfried, who is ready to star in and government produce the upcoming movie adaptation of Freida McFadden’s novel The Housemaid, additionally highlights the significance of telling the neighborhood’s tales authentically. Although the present was not filmed in Kensington, the crew included on-set consultants from throughout the neighborhood and in addition solid native actors.

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“It simply grounds it to an entire different stage, and you may’t actually discover TV this grounded in actuality lately. It is only a actually uncommon expertise for me as an actor on a set like this,” she says.

”There was simply a lot care in telling the story in the best approach…We will see ourselves in every of those individuals, and that is the purpose of storytelling, is to share and relate.”

Lengthy Vibrant River is now streaming on Peacock.