Amanda Seyfried she may have two exciting movies coming out in December, plus a new line of products from her children’s company, Make It Cute, but she’s making progress.
“Honestly, right now, it’s really hard,” he said Us Weekly exclusively to reconcile work and maternity on Monday 24 November. (Seyfried, 39, shares a daughter, born in 2017, and a son, born in 2020, with husband Thomas Sadoski.)
“This is the most I’ve ever worked with two kids, and I’ve never had two movies come out at the same time,” he continued. “And so now I’m a bit of a banana.”
Seyfried is preparing for the release of Paul Feig‘s The maid on December 19 and Fastvold here‘s The will of Ann Lee at Christmas, both of which have earned him a huge amount of attention and the best reviews of his career.
“Oh my God, they couldn’t be more different,” she said we of the movies. “I’m very proud of both of them. I’ll be honest, The maid it’s… don’t read (the book) until you’ve seen the movie because then it’ll ruin the twists for you.”
She teased the thriller, which she stars in Sydney Sweeney“This is exactly what we needed, especially during the holidays. You know what I mean?”
The holidays are busier than usual this year for Seyfried, as awards season quickly approaches and her toy brand is finding its stride. make it beautifulwhich creates playhouses and craft kits made from sustainable materials, recently launched a creative DIY kit that lets kids build their own tiny houses.
Available in three whimsical themes: bookstore, bakery, and fairy house, each $19.99 kit is made from paper-based materials and plant-based inks and includes pop-up pieces, sticker sheets, and eco-friendly accessories designed for kids to make, play, and display.

The tiny craft kits from Make It Cute.
Courtesy of Make It Cute“We build what we want and we build what we know doesn’t exist,” Seyfried explained of the company, which she co-founded with her childhood best friends. Anne Hoehn i Maureen North. “From day one, it’s always felt really special and really unique. We started out so big with these (playhouses) and now we’re like, ‘Let’s go small for a second.’ We have these craft kits that are so beautiful and so easy to make. Kids want to put stickers on them and make them their own, and it’s a really good, tactile, imaginative, fun, create-your-own-world environment.”
She added: “I love that connection to what kids want because we love our kids. We love our kids. We’ll do anything for them.”
Seyfried said the idea for Make It Cute was born during the COVID-19 pandemic when she, Hoehn and North were FaceTiming and Zooming while locked up with their young children.
“None of us were working, and this stall gave us this kind of space to explore the needs that we had artistically and creatively, and just like people who are used to producing things,” Seyfried said. we. “We’ll have wine on Zoom or FaceTime or whatever, and we got to talking about things we could create in the world. It felt like a perfect opportunity to put our heads together.”
She added of Hoehn and North, whom she met in elementary school in Pennsylvania, “I mean, they’re my mom group. We all had our first kids at the same time and there was that connection, too, and we just lean on each other. . . . It was a community that I didn’t have anywhere else, like that, that shorthand and the ability to joke about the crazy things of the night and tell me the crazy things of the night. I have so many centimeters (dilated, what do you think I should take a bath?). It’s the most intimate, supportive and comforting little community.”
On top of everything going on, Seyfried is getting ready to celebrate a milestone birthday on December 3rd, and she’ll be doing it with her best friends by her side.
“We’re doing a little pop-up in two weeks where I live (in upstate New York), so that’s going to be fun,” Seyfried said. “They will be with me for my 40th birthday.”
Seyfried admitted that while she can “get a little black” when she’s away shooting a movie, she tries to be readily available to her girlfriends and relies on them to keep her sane as a working mom.
“We’ve done a bunch of trips together this year, which is always fun, because we get a girls’ night out, and it’s necessary when you have two kids each. It’s actually been a lot of fun, because there’s always something (planned),” she said. we. “It’s so nice to have these relationships. We’ve been through adolescence (together) and still be friends? They’ve seen me (you know) in really crazy, chaotic times.”
The tiny craft kits from Make It Cute are available now. The maid hits theaters on December 19 and The will of Ann Lee will be released on December 25.




