"We can see ourselves in each of these people, and that's the point of storytelling,” Seyfried tells PEOPLE of the show, now streaming on Peacock

Even before meeting the "Long Bright River" team, Amanda Seyfried believed it was her fate to play a Philly beat cop. The star, who kicked off her career playing Karen in "Mean Girls" and Sophie in "Mamma Mia,

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.

I've always wanted to play a cop,” Seyfried says. “It's like a childhood dream to play somebody that I just was always in awe of, even though it's funny [because] I'm not g

Amanda Seyfried says there were two major reasons why she wanted to star in Peacock's adaptation of Liz Moore's best-selling novel "Long Bright River" -- the location and the fact it cast her against type.

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,

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Amanda Seyfried, star of the new series Long Bright River. She plays a police officer investigating the murders of women from Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood.