Amanda Seyfried | Wrong! Said Fed

Summary

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Episode: Amanda Seyfried | Wrong! Said Fed
Date: January 14, 2026
Guest: Amanda Seyfried

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Episode Overview

This episode opens with Stephen Colbert’s signature monologue, blending sharp political satire with the absurd—taking aim at the Trump administration’s controversial actions regarding the Federal Reserve and a bizarre, ongoing “Monkey Mergency” in St. Louis. Afterward, Colbert is joined by Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress Amanda Seyfried for a lively “Community Calendar” segment celebrating her Allentown, Pennsylvania roots and a wide-ranging interview. Seyfried discusses family, life with a menagerie of animals, experiences at awards shows, her daughter’s honest reactions to her films, and the inspiration behind her latest role as Ann Lee in the new movie The Testament of Ann Lee.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Monologue Highlights: Trump, the Fed, and Minnesota (01:45–11:56)

• Political Satire on Trump vs. The Fed (01:45–05:45):

  • Colbert lampoons the Trump administration’s “malicious prosecution” of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
  • Emphasizes the Fed’s need for independence and warns of market repercussions, with a blend of jokes and serious undertone.
  • Quote:

    “That’s what keeps the entire global financial system from collapsing and all of us going back to bartering with bales of indigo and little bags of toddler teeth.” (Stephen Colbert, 02:16)

• Minnesota News: ICE Raids and Federal Lawsuits (05:45–09:00):

  • Discusses alarming ICE actions in Minneapolis, including shootings and increased federal presence.
  • Critiques the Trump administration’s response and local prosecutors’ resignations in protest.
  • Notes a new lawsuit by Minnesota and Illinois over federal overreach.
  • Quote:

    “The Trump administration is trying to smear Renee Goode’s family,” (Stephen Colbert, 07:30)

• Local Color & Comedic Riffs:

  • Jokes about Minnesota’s “resources” (“best he’s going to get is 50 million barrels of cream of mushroom soup,” 06:15)
  • Satirizes Trump’s social media fear-mongering about “convicted murderers, drug dealers, and addicts” at the Mall of America (07:55).

2. Monkey Mergency: Animals, AI, and Escaping Goats (09:13-11:56)

• Reports on escaped monkeys and a goat in St. Louis, complicated by AI-generated “sightings” confusing officials.
• Colbert imagines a movie “Termuncinator 2: Judgment Age,” lampooning the AI-animal chaos.
• Quote:

  “My screenplay for Paramount’s next blockbuster. Termuncinator 2. Judgment Age. David Ellison, call me.” (Stephen Colbert, 10:56)

3. Community Calendar with Amanda Seyfried: Allentown Events (13:07–16:59)

• Seyfried helps Colbert highlight quirky, real-life upcoming events in Allentown, PA and Lehigh County, including:
  • All-you-can-eat pasta nights, pirate-themed murder mysteries, speed dating for singles 50–60 (“so we’re using the word speed generously,” Colbert, 15:23), Fastnacht Day donut festivities, crafting classes, adult painting classes, and a risqué “Naked Magicians” show.
• The two exchange regional wit and inside jokes.
• Quote:

  “You don’t have to be high to love Lehigh, but it doesn’t hurt.” (Amanda Seyfried, 16:59)

4. Interview: Amanda Seyfried on Family, the Golden Globes, and Acting (18:50–27:34)

a. Life on the Farm: Chickens, Horses, and (No) Monkeys (18:50–19:52)

• Seyfried shares her love for raising animals on her upstate New York property.
• Confirms no monkeys allowed by NY state law, much to Colbert’s feigned disappointment.
• Quote:

  “Trust me, I researched.” (Amanda Seyfried, on NY’s ban on primates, 19:49)

b. Golden Globes Experience (19:52–21:49)

• Seyfried recounts the fun and chaos of the awards, comparing it to other shows.
• Notes more backstage food and drinks at the Globes vs. the Emmys.
• Quote:

  “There were so many celebrities there.” (Amanda Seyfried, 19:57)

c. Kids and Movies: Motherhood Reflections (21:49–23:48)

• Seyfried discusses her children’s ages (5 and 8) and their reactions to her work, especially Mean Girls and Mamma Mia! (“She didn’t think it was that funny, but she really thought I was lovely in it,” 23:42).
• Touching on Kids Pitch—a segment where children create TV/movie ideas, expressing her daughter’s wish to join in a future installment.

d. Mamma Mia! and Prospects for a Sequel (23:52–24:16)

• Colbert presses for news on Mamma Mia 3.
• Seyfried echoes fan enthusiasm:
  • Quote:

    “Yes, yes, yes.” (Amanda Seyfried, on Mamma Mia 3, 23:53)

e. Testament of Ann Lee: History, Women’s Leadership & Shaker Culture (24:38–27:34)

• Seyfried gives a moving account of Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker movement, emphasizing her leadership, equality advocacy, and the movement’s celibacy rule rooted in personal tragedy.
• Colbert marvels at the persistence of the sect, noting there are still a few devotees after 250 years.
• Discussion of Shaker worship through ecstatic dance and the well-known song “Simple Gifts.”
• Seyfried shares plans for a musical event involving the film’s music and famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
• Notable Quotes:

  • “She took this group of eight people in 1778 to America from Manchester and created an entire movement...she didn’t care about her legacy. So therefore no one knew who she was. But if she had been a man, sorry, I think we might know about him.” (Amanda Seyfried, 24:38–25:52)

  • “It was a movement...and that it’s a bad idea to not have sex.” (Colbert, 26:10–26:19)

  • “Simple Gifts is the Shaker song, the most well known Shaker song...Yo-Yo [Ma] just played it for me in the dressing room.” (Amanda Seyfried, 27:02–27:12)

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Notable Quotes by Timestamp

• “Our money is under attack thanks to the Trump administration’s malicious prosecution of Fed Chair and Keebler Elf at the funeral for Snap, Crackle and Pop Jerome Powell.”
  Stephen Colbert, 01:54

• “How dare you, sir? It’s called the Mall of America. And I’ll have you know, it has three separate lids, not counting the lids at Macy’s.”
  Stephen Colbert, 08:03

• “I for one do not want to live in a world where I can’t believe in monkeys.”
  Stephen Colbert, 11:06

• “You’ll be all in on Allentown.”
  Amanda Seyfried, 14:40

• “You don’t have to be high to love Lehigh, but it doesn’t hurt.”
  Amanda Seyfried, 16:59

• “They [the chickens] are all alive and producing like hotcakes.”
  Amanda Seyfried, 19:03

• “There were so many celebrities there.”
  Amanda Seyfried, 19:57

• “Yes, yes, yes!” [on Mamma Mia 3]
  Amanda Seyfried, 23:53

• “She was the leader for female leader of a spiritual movement...to have a space for equality between gender and race in the 18th century.”
  Amanda Seyfried, 24:38

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Monologue – Trump, Fed, and Minnesota: 01:45–11:56
• Monkey Emergency Updates: 09:13–11:56
• Community Calendar (with Amanda Seyfried): 13:07–16:59
• Seyfried Interview—Family, Showbiz, & Films: 18:50–27:34
• Testament of Ann Lee Discussion: 24:38–27:34

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Episode Tone & Takeaways

• Tone: Signature Colbert—satirical, irreverent, playful, warm during the guest segment.
• Guest Dynamic: Amanda Seyfried brings a sincere, humorous, and down-to-earth energy. She engages fully in the quirky “Community Calendar,” is candid about family life and career moments, and offers thoughtful insight into women’s underrecognized historical leadership.
• For Listeners New to the Show: This episode is an exemplar of Colbert’s blend of smart political commentary, absurdist local news, and affectionate, revealing chats with stars, all laced with quick wit and warmth.

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Transcript

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Welcome everybody in here, out there and all around the world to the Late Show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert. Folks, it's one thing I gotta tell you, it's, you know, we've had a rough ride, but it's one thing when the Trump administration comes after our rights or comes after our ideals. But now he's coming after something we care our money. Right now. Make no mistake, our money is under attack thanks to the Trump administration's malicious prosecution of Fed Chair and Keebler Elf at the funeral for Snap, Crackle and Pop Jerome Powell. You see, what was it 110 years ago? Something like that. The Fed was established specifically to be an independent agency outside of political pressure. That's what keeps the entire global financial system from collapsing and all of us going back to bartering with bales of indigo and little bags of toddler teeth. So that could be bad. Even White House insiders are worried that further threats to the Fed chief's job security could spook the BO market. Yeah, and I totally understand why the bond folks are not bonding with this idea because as an adult male in a suit, I know it's not good for the Dow points. There's too many of them are not.

[Late Show Staff/Announcer]

Enough.

[Stephen Colbert]

Of the dowlings of the moist dowelettes. Now a lot of people aren't happy about this. The Wall Street Journal's editorial picking a fight with the Fed and the bond market over an issue that voters will find confusing and irrelevant is Lawfare for Dummies. Law Fair for dummies, of course, a required class if you go to law school at Notre Dame. The Journal went on to say there's dumb and then there's the criminal subpoena federal prosecutors delivered Friday to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. There has not been a newspaper burn that sick since New York Times powerful investigation into why yo mama so fat. Sources say she sits around the house. Now the White House is claiming that in bringing this legal action against Powell, Washington D.C. 's U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro went rogue. I'm sorry, I misread that. She went Last night, Pirro tweeted that her investigation is not a threat and that the word indictment has come out of Mr. Powell's mouth. No one else's. This is turning into a real he said, she slurred. We now turn to our friends out in Minneapolis who are still reeling from last week's shooting by an ICE agent of Renee Goode, which is just the latest and most horrifying abuse of that great city by Homeland Security. Right now there are more than 2,000 federal immigration agents in Minnesota and Trump is planning to send around 1,000 more. So he's invading. So he's clearly invading Minnesota. Has anyone told him that they don't have oil? Because the best he's going to get is 50 million barrels of cream of mushroom soup Now. So if you Cream of mushroom soup, there it is. If you've been on social media, you've seen all the terrible activities these officers have been up to, pulling people from vehicles, raiding homes and schools, both threatening and then delivering violence. But on the bright side, you may also have seen this. An ICE officer running onto the sidewalk and then boom, Boom. Absolutely, Absolutely. Eatin Duke. Ha ha. You fell down and bonked your big fat butt. Now it's not just a surge of goons in order to justify the unjustifiable gunning down of an American citizen in her car. The Trump administration is trying to smear Renee Goode's family. Now reportedly, senior Justice Department officials have pressed for a criminal investigation into Goode's widow, which today prompted both six federal prosecutors in Minnesota to resign and the resignation of five senior prosecutors in the criminal section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights division. Good for them. But this story, this story is so awful that even their principled stand doesn't make me feel better. And I'm not sure if there's anything that could helps a little. And now the North Star State is joining up with Illinois to sue the Trump administration over their ICE deployments, saying they violated state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment. I believe the 10th Amendment is the one that says if you use the first nine amendments, you get a free sub. Trump heard about these lawsuits and went completely nut. Nutrition, posting a long rant starting with do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts? How dare you, sir? It's called the Mall of America. And I'll have you know, I'll have you know it has three separate lids, not counting the lids at Macy's. He then doubled down on his ice surge, ending fear not. Great, people of Minnesota, the day of reckoning and retribution is coming. Kind of a weird tonal shift to start with fear not and end with day of reckoning and retribution. Hey everybody, let's chill. Put a smile on that face. A thousand year storm of blood is nigh. Oh, you know what that sound means. It's time for a monkey mergency update. Monkey, monkey, monkey update. Welcome. Yesterday I told you about the simian crisis in the Midwest where as many as four, but certainly more than one monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis. And because this story is not about Don Donald Trump, I'm going to talk about it for as many as four, but certainly more than one show. First up on the monke emergency. Now, that sound means that this monke emergency comes with a side of goat.

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[Stephen Colbert]

Because authorities in Missouri say the multiple monkeys on the loose in St. Louis have been joined by a wayward goat. Well, that's a classic team up. Monkeys and goats or moats or gunkies. Either way, you're renting a rug shampooer. But the efforts to find these creatures have been complicated by a whole lot of AI science. According to authorities, people are posting AI generated Pictures and videos to social media claiming to have found the animals. Yes. And the AI is so realistic, the authorities don't know whether the monkeys have been captured already. Like this one, where the monkeys and the goat smoke cigarettes in front of a deli. That is. Is that. That is. I can't tell. I can't tell. That is so irresponsible. Not only are they confusing the monkey catchers, they're encouraging young monkeys to smoke. Which reminds me, monkeys, I know your goat friends say it's cool, but smoking kills. So monkey no smoke. Unless you're wearing a little tuxedo, riding around on a tricycle. Then it's hilarious. That's a big. That's a cigar. Is that a cigar? He's got a cigar. These AI posts have made it so hard for St. Louis authorities to track down these animal escapees that during a press conference this morning, one reporter asked this question.

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[Amanda Seyfried]

Community calendar.

[Stephen Colbert]

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[Stephen Colbert]

You know, we're so lucky we get to do the show here in New York, New York. But every once in a while someone mentions another city and I think, all right, other places exist too. Personally, I love smaller towns. I'm from a little town, James Island, South Carolina, which is why I do a segment called Community Campus, where a celebrity guest and I talk about actual events that are actually happening in and around their actual hometowns. We've celebrated places like Wilmington, Delaware with Albury Plaza and Mishawaka, Indiana with Adam Driver. But you know, there are still so many great places I would love to.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Talk about, like Allentown, Pennsylvania with Amanda Seyfried.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, my gosh.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Let's talk about Allentown.

[Stephen Colbert]

Lovely. Thank you. Perfect. Please Amand. Amanda, you're from Allentown, Pennsylvania.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Was the Liberty Bell hidden in a church on West Hamilton Street?

[Stephen Colbert]

I don't know.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Yeah, yeah, it was.

[Stephen Colbert]

It was, yeah. Well, then, great. It's time for Allentown, Pennsylvania's Community Calendar. Welcome to Community Calendar, your source for what's happening in and around Allentown, Pennsylvania. Joining me is native Allentonian, Amanda Seyfried.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Thank you, Stephen. As we like to say, you'll be all in on all in town.

[Stephen Colbert]

So true. Now let's take a look at some actual upcoming events happening in Allentown and the greater Lehigh county area. First up, head over to Colonial Pizza Easton every Wednesday. For all you can, eat pasta, which is not available to go. That pasta's not going anywhere. And once you eat all you can, neither will you.

[Amanda Seyfried]

On January 16, head to Stony Run Winery for a pirate themed murder mystery. As always, the killer is scurvy.

[Stephen Colbert]

On January 21, Tipsy's Bar and Lounge will hold Allentown speed dating for singles aged 50 to 60. So we're using the word speed generously.

[Amanda Seyfried]

On February 17, celebrate the last day before Lent by heading to Mary Ann Donut Kitchen for fastnot day, where you can enjoy some traditional Pennsylvania Dutch treats made with lard, sugar, fat, butter, and sometimes potatoes. Which is why all the items come with the warning. May contain trace amounts of vegetable.

[Stephen Colbert]

On January 20, at Allentown Library, you can make a magnetic bookmark. Perfect to keep track, we're in the middle of a really long refrigerator.

[Amanda Seyfried]

On January 27, at Allentown Public Library, there's an adult painting class. Just bring some paint and any adult who wants to Change color.

[Stephen Colbert]

On January 16th, it's the Quakertown Board Game Night hosted by Naugle Funeral and Cremation Service. Great news for anyone who said settlers of Catan. I'd rather be dead.

[Amanda Seyfried]

I've never been there.

[Stephen Colbert]

No.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Head to the State Theater on February 18 for the Naked Magicians. Come for the jokes about a magic wand. Stay to see where they pull a rabbit out of.

[Stephen Colbert]

Well, that does it for community calendar for Allentown, Pennsylvania and the greater Lehigh county area.

[Amanda Seyfried]

As we like to say, you don't have to be high to love Lehigh, but it doesn't hurt.

[Stephen Colbert]

We'll be right back with Amanda Sey.

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Hey, welcome back, everybody. Ladies and gentlemen, my first guest tonight is a Emmy and Golden Globe award winning actress. You know from Mamma Mia, the Dropout and Long Bright River. She now stars in the testament of Ann Lee.

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You.

[Stephen Colbert]

Break on our soul. Please welcome back to the Late Show Amanda Seyfried. Hi, Amanda.

[Amanda Seyfried]

What a long clip.

[Stephen Colbert]

Nice to see. It is a long clip, but it looks fascinating. And I want to get into the testament of Ann Lee in just a second and talk about the Golden Globes. But first, obviously first question for you is how are the chickens?

[Amanda Seyfried]

They're all alive and they're producing like hotcakes.

[Stephen Colbert]

Now for the people who are not initiated into the seiferied life, tell the people why you have chickens.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Why not? Wait, why?

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Why not?

[Stephen Colbert]

It's not just chickens. You don't have only chickens. What other animals have eggs? No, I understand, but you have other animals other than chickens.

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What do you got?

[Amanda Seyfried]

I don't have cows. No cows, but everything else.

[Stephen Colbert]

Do you have a horse?

[Amanda Seyfried]

I have many horses.

[Stephen Colbert]

Do you have goats?

[Amanda Seyfried]

I have many horses and goats.

[Stephen Colbert]

Are any of the goats missing?

[Amanda Seyfried]

I haven't been home in two weeks.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, okay.

[Amanda Seyfried]

I can't be certain, but I'm pretty sure they're okay.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, my God.

[Amanda Seyfried]

I hope so.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah, sure. No monkeys.

[Amanda Seyfried]

No, not allowed In New York State.

[Stephen Colbert]

You can't have a monkeys.

[Amanda Seyfried]

No primates.

[Stephen Colbert]

There's a rule no primates in New York State.

[Late Show Staff/Announcer]

No, I.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Trust me, I researched.

[Stephen Colbert]

You were at the Golden Globes? I was.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Oh, my God.

[Stephen Colbert]

Just Sunday night.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Guess What?

[Stephen Colbert]

What?

[Amanda Seyfried]

There were so many celebrities there.

[Stephen Colbert]

Go on, dish, girl.

[Late Show Staff/Announcer]

I was.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Sorry. It was fun. It's always nice to celebrate artistic achievements, for sure. Especially a movie like this that was so impossible to get me. But still, it is a show. And you know that more than anybody. I see you at every award show.

[Stephen Colbert]

Not the Golden Globes, not last night. There's no category for us in the Golden Globes. Late night guys never go, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine.

[Amanda Seyfried]

You keep friends and stuff. No, it's not that. They're all the same. The award shows.

[Stephen Colbert]

How are they all the same? Never been to the Oscars either.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Lots of claps, lots of clapping, lots of nervous people. Lots of.

[Stephen Colbert]

No one's nervous.

[Amanda Seyfried]

I don't know. But lots of food in the backstage area and no food in the front. The front of house.

[Stephen Colbert]

Do you guys. Are there drinks? You gonna get a cocktail at the Golden Globe? Oh, absolutely.

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Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

You can't do that at the Emmys. I've tried.

[Amanda Seyfried]

That's not true.

[Stephen Colbert]

Not at your table. You can't sit at the table in town.

[Amanda Seyfried]

That's amateur.

[Stephen Colbert]

You have to go to the bar. You have to wait. You have to enter a bar. I want somebody to bring me alcohol after I've lost.

[Amanda Seyfried]

I'm willing to work for it, Stephen. And that's why I have fun.

[Stephen Colbert]

I'll tell you who was working it. You were on the carpet list. I like that look. I really felt glam. Glam.

[Amanda Seyfried]

I felt great. I did.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah. It's a real. This is like Grace Kelly kind of stuff going on here.

[Amanda Seyfried]

It's a Versace couture. It's like, couldn't be better. It was so nice.

[Stephen Colbert]

Was it comfy?

[Amanda Seyfried]

I felt like I was being hugged by it in a way that sometimes you're not. And then, of course, like, they just threw up jewels on me.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah. Seriously.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Stunning. Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

Look at the ice Capades around your neck. It's extraordinary.

[Amanda Seyfried]

It is nice and it's good. Cause I have a daughter, too, who loves to watch me dress up. It was really fun. I will say it was fun.

[Stephen Colbert]

Well, you have two kids, right?

[Late Show Staff/Announcer]

Yeah, I have two kids.

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Ages?

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Yeah, five and eight.

[Stephen Colbert]

Fantastic. Good job.

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Yeah.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Thank you.

[Stephen Colbert]

Nice grouping. You did such a wonderful thing for us. We have this thing called Kids Pitch on the show every so often where we ask children. Yes. To design a perfect movie or a perfect TV show or something like that. And we had Bulbo. And the strange villain, Bulbo was played by Walton Goggins. And the Strange villain with Steve Buscemi. And you played one of the victims of the strange victim who's saved by Bulbo. You were so committed.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Thank you.

[Stephen Colbert]

I want to thank you. You should deserve to end it for that.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Thank you. No, I talked to your director. Thanks. No, Very fun. I talked to your director and I said, please, please, please, please let me know. My daughter would love to do it.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, if we do another kids pitch.

[Amanda Seyfried]

And then you ended the show. You ended your show.

[Stephen Colbert]

I didn't end the show. No, I know. I'm kidding.

[Late Show Staff/Announcer]

I'm kidding.

[Stephen Colbert]

Let's just for the record, I was quite surprised.

[Amanda Seyfried]

But what are your plans?

[Stephen Colbert]

What are your plans?

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What are your plans?

[Stephen Colbert]

I'm gonna raise some chickens.

[Amanda Seyfried]

That's fine. But then you're gonna get bored.

[Stephen Colbert]

Shuffle some minority.

[Amanda Seyfried]

You're gonna be like, right?

[Stephen Colbert]

I don't know if I will. I don't know if I will. I am not easily bored. What? I got books.

[Amanda Seyfried]

What people are gonna.

[Stephen Colbert]

Okay, great. Just you call somebody for me. You work it out. Okay? That's how you do it. You work out what we're all doing next and that'll be great. I'll give you a little taste. Okay. We would love. Would your. Would one of your kids would like to do one of the kids if we do another kids?

[Amanda Seyfried]

If you do it, yes.

[Stephen Colbert]

She's already there, 100%. We'll definitely do another one of them.

[Amanda Seyfried]

I don't know what's happening.

[Stephen Colbert]

Have they seen. Have they seen any of your films?

[Amanda Seyfried]

She saw. Well, she saw.

[Stephen Colbert]

She's seen the five year old.

[Amanda Seyfried]

The five year old, he's scared of things. But the.

[Stephen Colbert]

For the eight year old.

[Amanda Seyfried]

For the eight year old. My director from the Aunt Testament of Ann Lee, her daughter is 11 and friends with my daughter and we took them to Zurich together for the film festival. So when we were on a meeting, her daughter was like, you need to watch Mean Girls. And I was like, are you okay? And then my daughter said she only watched half of it. She didn't think it was that funny, but she really thought I was lovely in it.

[Mint Mobile Announcer]

Oh.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, that's nice.

[Amanda Seyfried]

I was her favorite character.

[Stephen Colbert]

Has she seen Mamma Mia. Any of the Mamma Mia?

[Amanda Seyfried]

Many, many times.

[Stephen Colbert]

Many times. Okay, so she approves of that. That does not bore her.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

Are we gonna get a Mamma Mia 3?

[Amanda Seyfried]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Stephen Colbert]

I ask everybody in Mamma Mia if we're gonna have Mamma Mia 3. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe I could be a love interest in Mamma Mia 3.

[Amanda Seyfried]

You know what, though? Honestly?

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah.

[Amanda Seyfried]

If Meryl's character comes back from the dead, I do believe you have a.

[Stephen Colbert]

Chance with Meryl Streep.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Why not?

[Stephen Colbert]

We have to take a quick break. We're back, everybody, with Amanda Seyfried. I want to talk about the movie the Testament of Ann Lee. Who was Anne Lee?

[Amanda Seyfried]

She was incredible. She was the lead. She led. She was leader for female leader of a spiritual movement that was created to have a space for equality between gender and race in the 18th century. She was a woman, and she did it. She took this group of eight people in 1778 to America from Manchester and created an entire movement. The only rule was that you weren't allowed to fornicate, as most of you know, means have sex. But she had a reason for it in that she lost all of her children in childbirth or infancy. Four of them. Two in childbirth, two in infancy, which is, you know, the worst thing that could happen to somebody. And then she kind of, instead of killing herself, kind of got on her knees and, like, started a movement and really, like, took her faith to another level, which is so iconic and nobody knows about her. The shakers, the furniture, the broom, the many inventions. There's a lot of museums. She's an incredible woman, and she didn't care about her legacy. So therefore no one knew who she was. But if she had been a man, sorry, I think we might know about him.

[Stephen Colbert]

Maybe. Maybe there were 6,000. We peaked at 6,000 shakers in America at a time. At one time.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Which is still crazy when you think they didn't have sex.

[Stephen Colbert]

Exactly. They didn't have sex. Now there are three.

[Amanda Seyfried]

It took 250 years later, there are still some. So it goes to show you that it did. It was a movement and that it's.

[Stephen Colbert]

A bad idea to not have sex.

[Amanda Seyfried]

It's a. I don't think most people. Most people would agree that that would be something they would be into.

[Stephen Colbert]

First choice. Yeah, first choice. It's just math. Just after a while, there's gonna be nobody left.

[Amanda Seyfried]

And how amazing is that? She wasn't thinking about it. She was just, like, desperate for community.

[Stephen Colbert]

And do they really, like, dance?

[Amanda Seyfried]

And that's how they worship ecstatic song and dance for days at a time sometimes. And we don't know what their movement looked like. We only have seen photos. Sorry, there wasn't a camera. We've seen drawings.

[Late Show Staff/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Amanda Seyfried]

And paintings of formations of theirs, but nothing so.

[Stephen Colbert]

Simple gifts, a Shaker song.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Simple Gifts is the. The Shaker song, the most well known Shaker song.

[Stephen Colbert]

That is their go to jam.

[Amanda Seyfried]

Yeah. Actually, yo yo just played it for me in the dressing room.

[Stephen Colbert]

Get out.

[Amanda Seyfried]

And I was like, I know that song.

[Late Show Staff/Announcer]

Get it.

[Stephen Colbert]

Get out. I know he does an extraordinary verse.

[Amanda Seyfried]

And so now we.

[Stephen Colbert]

Of everything, really?

[Amanda Seyfried]

Yes, it was. I had to, like, just piece myself together. But we have now planned an evening where he's gonna play, and I'm gonna sing some of the songs from the movie, and hopefully it happens.

[Stephen Colbert]

Amanda, thank you so much for being here. Lovely to see you. Okay. Oh, well, we got plenty. The Testament of Anne Lee is in theaters now. Amanda Seyffert, everybody. Thank you for listening to the Late Show Pod show with Stephen Colbert. Just one more thing. If you want to see more of me, come to The Late Show YouTube channel for more clips and exclusives.

[Amanda Seyfried]

It is my great honor to welcome you all to Starfleet Academy.

[Stephen Colbert]

There's never been a better time to enroll in Star Trek.

[Amanda Seyfried]

It's our job to prepare you for the unimaginable.

[Stephen Colbert]

To the Night Cadet.

[Amanda Seyfried]

In high pressure situations, positive reinforcement is crucial to one's success. You're doing a great job.

[Stephen Colbert]

This is what we train for. These friends of mine, they all live for something, something bigger than themselves, and that's Starfleet. Starfleet Academy, new series streaming January 15th on Paramount Plus.

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