Don’t forget Amanda is on The View today with Meryl to promote Mamma Mia! so make sure and check it out. We’re going to try our best to have clips and caps ASAP so if you miss it you should be able to watch it here soon.

I’ve just added scans of Amanda and Mamma Mia! from the newest Entertainment Weekly to the gallery thanks to daily-slam.com so check those out! I have a lot more stuff to add over the next few days including some appearances and some screencaptures so keep checking back!

Amanda Seyfried may be a dancing queen now - thanks to her starring role as Sophie in the big-screen version of “Mamma Mia!” - but the show has been running on Broadway since Seyfried turned 13. And the Swedish rock band Abba, on whose songs the blockbuster stage musical was based, broke up three years before the 22-year-old actress was born.

“I didn’t know a thing,” Seyfried admits, speaking by cell telephone as she rides through Manhattan in a limousine. “Honestly, I didn’t know anything about Abba or ‘Mamma Mia!’ I know now that my dad was a fan, back when Abba was huge, but I really just knew some A-Teens tunes, when the A-Teens were big. They were this teen group that sang Abba songs, and I was probably 13.

“And I only found out about the show because of the audition for the movie.”

“I know that part of the reason they chose me was because Benny loved my voice,” Seyfried says, referring to Benny Andersson, a former Abba member who is also an executive producer of “Mamma Mia!” “It was just so amazing. I didn’t believe it. I still don’t believe it, and it’s just so weird to see my face on a taxicab or a billboard.

“It was so scary, actually,” the young actress says. “I was like, ‘Now people are relying on me to play this role.’ I hung up, after I found out from my agents that I’d gotten it, and I said, ‘Can I do this? Can I actually lead a movie?’

“I didn’t trust that they’d made the right decision,” she admits. “I knew in my heart that I was the right person for it, but in my mind I was like, ‘Can I perform at the level that Meryl (Streep) needs from a co-star?’ I just had to throw all that away when we started shooting. I was like, ‘That’s not going to get me anywhere. They chose me for a reason. I’m here, and I’ve got to do the best I can.’ ”

“Sophie is so, so, so excited about life and she’s so adventurous,” Seyfried says enthusiastically. “Unfortunately that can get her in trouble, because she doesn’t really understand the consequences sometimes of being so positive. That’s very like me. I like her because I can relate to her.

“But also Sophie is young and she loves life,” the actress continues, “and, when this situation happens, she deals with it as realistically and hopefully as she can. I was so happy to play her. I’m used to playing much darker roles, and she was just such a lovable person.”

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