Amanda Seyfried covers the April issue of W magazine with a powerful cover and a “Go West, Go Wild” shoot under the fold. Loosely translated, this means Amanda posed in a bunch of bikinis and wore boots. The stylist was so lazy for this shoot, but Amanda looks good. I’ve never seen her look bad, but these photos are very unimaginative. W mag shoots are pretty bad these days. They’re either making Miley look like Gaga or putting a bird on JLaw’s head. Compared to those awful shoots, Amanda fared pretty well.

The interview is a bit bizarre. Over the years, I’ve realized that Amanda is socially awkward during interviews due to her anxiety disorder. I always think of poor Amanda fumbling for words during a Craig Ferguson chat. She has trouble doing press with one exception: Amanda is very daring during telephone interviews. She got flirty and “naked” with Justin Timberlake for a phone interview. She’s also on the phone for W mag, so things got a bit steamy:

Amanda’s recent downtime was a fail: “I am most scared of being bored. I was at a resort! And I thought, I should be loving this–but I wasn’t getting anything done, and that terrified me. When I feel like I’m not accomplishing something, I feel like I failed the day. I guess I missed work.”

She’s still upset about Jennifer’s Body: “[Megan Fox and I] kissed really well together. We have similar kissing styles! If I watch the scene, it’s actually really sexy…We got it done for the masses, and, sadly, the masses didn’t show up.” (The film did not fare terribly well at the box office.)

She loves sex scenes: “I met my first boyfriend on a soap opera. We kissed for the first time on the show. It was like a fairy tale. When you’re young, it’s hard not to get together with your costar. It’s not always the greatest idea, but the experience of making a television show or a movie is so intimate and romantic. And I love acting like I’m in love! Sex scenes are great. A lot of my costars have been sexy guys my age who are really respectful and cool. So, why not? I’m not going to pretend it’s not fun.”

Don’t ask her about Justin Long: “It may be that I’m older, and it may be that social media is everywhere now. I don’t think I was really famous until last year–and I felt like no one paid much attention to what I was doing. That was good. But Les Mis was an international hit, and that changed things. Before, I was a little more anonymous.”

She’s grateful for her past: “Everything major in my life began on Big Love. I was a teenager when I booked that part, and acting was definitely not the most important thing to me then. I was undecided about my career: I could have been a waitress in Allentown for the rest of my life! But Big Love cemented my feelings for acting. I even adopted Finn during that show. I’d always had cats, and suddenly, there was this puppy on set.”

Finn’s worldwide fame: “When I landed in Korea recently, there were people holding up pictures of Finn. In the past year, people just learned how to pronounce my last name correctly (Sigh-fred), but they all know everything about my dog.”

[From W magazine]

I’m so glad Finn the dog (the most amazing celebrity dog ever) got some lip service during this discussion. She’s much more willing to talk about him than her weird coupling with Justin Long, and that’s fine. Finn is everything.

Does anyone else find it weird that Amanda gushed about how much she love sex scenes? Most actors can’t stop talking about how terrible and uncomfortable they are. Maybe Amanda loves them because she’s terrified of being promiscuous in real life. With acting, she can enjoy the scenes without guilt. Ugh, she got with Justin Timberlake in that silly In Time movie. I hope she didn’t like it.

Photos courtesy of W magazine