Hi, I’m Amanda Seyfried and I am here today
with NET-A-PORTER for an episode of First Time.
Let’s go…
First time I walked the red carpet was…
I was 17 years old.
I went to the Daytime Emmy Awards, and I borrowed a dress
that was just ripping all night –
clearly had been worn a million times before I put it on.
And I felt like a dream.
Did my own makeup, did my own hair,
it was an epic night.
The first time I learned a hard lesson…
oof,
I put a ‘kick me’ sign on someone’s back
in first grade…
and I
had to make the choice
whether or not I was going to tell the truth or lie.
And I remember that feeling.
Urgh... I did.
The first time I moved away from home, I was 17.
I was doing another show.
My first apartment was $1,800,
which is a lot of money in 2003.
It was very tiny, it was maybe 370 square feet.
But I made it work so it was mine; it was great.
The first time I recognized my own power…
I knew just how powerful I was
when my first baby squeezed out of my body.
And now the human being’s like this tall.
And it’s just the most empowering thing ever.
The first time I felt as if I’d made it was…
we were promoting Mean Girls…
They put us all up
for the junket at The Four Seasons, of course,
and I stayed overnight,
because it was a five-star hotel –
and I’d never experienced that.
And so I brought my cat and took a picture of us.
The first time I fell in love with acting
was actually I think when I was…
when an opportunity felt like it was taken away from me.
I had re-auditioned for a role that I’d already played.
And I didn’t get it.
And I was devastated.
I lost something that I really wanted,
which is always a good lesson.
The first thing I do after wrapping a shoot is…
I go home.
My things are already packed.
Um, you just, like, the headlights, for me…
and I don’t even take the makeup off…
like, go home.