""The experience was so incredible,""
""I felt completely protected and held up and surrounded by people loving artists and in a place where everybody knew the value of making this and understood Mona's vision. And it's just very rare.""
""Portraying a woman that's been through so much trauma and seeing her overcome that and have this vision and this devotion to God and also portraying a woman, at the end of the day, someone who felt like I have space in this world, too, as a woman and a child of God, to serve people and in a world where just women did not lead, it made it all easier,""
Amanda Seyfried plays Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers who proclaimed herself a female incarnation of Christ. The film also stars Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Tim Blake Nelson and Christopher Abbott, and is directed by Mona Fastvold. Searchlight Pictures acquired the film after its debut at the Venice Film Festival. Seyfried described the filming experience as incredible and said she felt protected and supported by collaborators who understood the director's vision. Seyfried said portraying Ann Lee required depicting trauma, spiritual devotion and a woman asserting leadership and service in a male-dominated world. The film opens in 70mm on December 25.
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