Amanda Seyfried speaks to Joni Mitchell Biopic, after 'California' cover viral becomes viral

Amanda Seyfried has concluded rumors that her viral cover of Joni Mitchell's “California” was an intended audition to play the folk singer in a future biopic.

During a appearance last week on the Tonight Show with Jimmy FallonSeyfried showed both her vocal talent and her dulcimer play skills with a pits-up reproduction of Mitchell's 1971 classic. Since then, a clip of her performance has become viral at Tikkok, which has caused several fans to speculate that the Mamma Mia! Star threw her name into the run to play the 81-year-old icon in Cameron Crowes upcoming Biopic.

“Tell me that for a Joni Mitchell -Biopic, you can audition without telling me that you are auditing …” Read a comment.

Seyfried now makes the record clear and insists that “it was not an audition”.

“In fact, I didn't even consider that, which is funny” Mean Girls Actor, 39, gave in a new episode Only for variety Podcast. “What I know about this project is that I am very, very strongly coordinated by young Joni.”

Almost famous In 2023, director Crowe announced for the first time that he worked with Mitchell on a film that was based on her life and career.

It has not yet been unveiled who will represent a boy. Meryl Streep, however, should play the singer “Big Yellow Taxi” in her later years.

“I'm super listed. We will start until the end of this year and hopefully be done for Christmas next year, ”said Crowe Ultimate Classic Rock In December 2024.

“It is Joni's life, not through another. It is through her prism. It is the characters that have had a long time known to their lives they know and that they don't know. And the music is so film, ”he teased.

The Untitled Biopic shoots a Christmas publication date of 2025.

Seyfried is currently on an advertising tour for her new crime miniseries Long bright riverAn adaptation of Liz Moore's best -selling 2020 novel of the same name.

The eight episode show, which is now streaming on Peacock, follows Seyfrieds Mickey Fitzpatrick by Seyfried, a police officer in Philadelphia who patrolled a neighborhood hit after the opioid crisis. When a series of murders takes place in her district, Mickey realizes that she may have a personal connection to the case.