#INTERVIEW: AMANDA SEYFRIED & ATOM EGOYAN ON “SEVEN VEILS”

After an extended wait, visionary Atom Egoyan‘s acclaimed Drama SEVEN VEILS finally sees a release next month. To celebrate the occasion, a special Red Carpet Advance Screening was held with its stars in attendance, including Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Actress AMANDA SEYFRIED. The Oscar-nominated screen veteran filmed the Movie in Toronto early 2023 and it premiered at TIFF during the SAG-AFTRA strike later that year, with Critics praising this is some of Seyfried‘s best work yet.

Also in attendance at TIFF Lightbox were:

-Atom Egoyan (Writer & Director)
-Amanda Seyfried (Actress – “Jeanine”)
-Rebecca Liddiard (Actress – “Clea”)
-Vinessa Antoine (Actress – “Rachel”)
-Joey Klein (Actor – “Charlie”)
-Lanette Ware (Actress – “Beatrice”)
-Maia Jae Bastidas (Actress – “Dimitra”)

SEVEN VEILS centers in a Theatre Director who is tasked with helming a production of Salome. She must face ghosts of her past life and some suppressed trauma as she delves deeper and her work comes to life.

We are delighted to have chatted with Seyfried and Egoyan about their reunion after much success with their 2009 film CHLOE. We are curious how their experiences on that Film might have informed this latest collaboration. Seyfried, who looked stunning in a chic Carolina Herrera dress, also tells us about her favourite Canadian libation!

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Elevation Pictures release SEVEN VEILS March 7, 2025. Review here.

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#SPOTTED: AMANDA SEYFRIED IN TORONTO AT COMEDY BAR FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Fresh-off her Golden Globe win for her superb performance in THE DROPOUT, Amanda Seyfried is back in-town and she reunits with Atom Egoyan on his latest film THE SEVEN VEILS, wrapping this month in Toronto.

The Drama centers on an earnest theatre director named Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried), who has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera “Salome“. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away. Seyfried last collaborated with Egoyan on 2009’s CHLOE, which we loved. SEVEN VEILS will be released by Elevation Pictures in Canada.

Seyfried while in-town did some good on International Women’s Day raising money for Redwood Women’s Shelter. The event titled “ALL THAT SHE WANTS” was held at Comedy Bar, with her making an appearance to draw awareness to the cause.

We’ve always remembered her as being amazing and kind and she has not changed. On working with Egoyan again, she tells me “Atom is the f*cking best!”.

(Photo credit: Mr. Will Wong)