For Amanda Seyfried, the Peacock limited series offered a rare opportunity to play a character adapted from a book while working closely alongside the author, Liz Moore.

The ‘Long Bright River’ star reflects on using her own experiences to develop Karen Smith and what it was like working with the industry legend.

In Peacock's TV adaptation of "Long Bright River" Amanda Seyfried portrays a Philadelphia cop desperate to stop a serial killer and find her sister.

The actress’s role as a Philadelphia beat cop in this Peacock series seems like an odd fit, but that’s the point. “I just wanted to prove to myself that nothing can feel too foreign,” she said.

Amanda Seyfried is not the type of face you think of when you picture a hardened Philadelphia cop. A French orphan whose world is upended by revolution, or a bride-to-be who sneakily invites the three men who could be her father to her sunny Greek island wedding,

The dramatic series sees Seyfried embody a police officer trying to do her best in one of Philadelphia’s roughest neighborhoods. It’s hard enough to be a police officer on the mean streets of Philadelphia,