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Amanda Seyfried rode along with the PPD in Kensington to prepare for miniseries role

Amanda Seyfried shadowed 26th District police officers to prepare for the TV adaptation of "Long Bright River," Liz Moore's book about a police officer searching for her missing sister in Kensington.

Amanda Seyfried poses for a portrait to promote the television miniseries "The Crowded Room" in June.
Amanda Seyfried poses for a portrait to promote the television miniseries "The Crowded Room" in June.Read moreTaylor Jewell / Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP
    by Beatrice Forman
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Allentown-born actress Amanda Seyfried and author Liz Moore were in Philadelphia Tuesday for a ride-along with police in Kensington for research for a forthcoming miniseries based on Moore’s best-selling book Long Bright River.

Set in Kensington, Moore’s book tells the story of Mickey, a beat cop who begins a desperate search for her sister, who is struggling with heroin addiction and goes missing. It’s loosely inspired by Moore’s experiences volunteering as a creative writing teacher at St. Francis Inn, a long-running neighborhood soup kitchen and shelter.

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Seyfried will play Mickey; the book was originally optioned as a film in 2018. The 26th Police District — which includes parts of Kensington — shared photos on Facebook of Seyfried and Moore posing with officers.

“The 26th District was honored to host actress Amanda Seyfried and author Liz Moore for a ride along today,” the post read. “Thank you to our officers who provided the ride along tour of the district.”

After her breakout role as Karen Smith in the original Mean Girls, Seyfried has taken on more serious roles, most recently as disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout, for which she won and Emmy and Golden Globe, and a shrewd police interrogator in the Apple TV+ mini-series The Crowded Room. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as Marion Davies in David Fincher’s Mank.

Filming for Long Bright River began this year and has taken place in New York City thus far. The miniseries will stream on Peacock.