In an interview with PORTER magazine, Amanda Seyfried opened up about some uncomfortable situations she faced while working on film sets in the pre-#MeToo era.

The 36-year-old actress revealed that she had to walk around “without underwear” on when she was just 19 and starting out as a young actress.

She admitted that she didn’t speak up about being put in certain situations because she “didn’t want to upset anybody, and I wanted to keep my job.”

Amanda had started her career as a model in her early teens but gave up modelling when she was 17 to pursue acting.

She started off in soap operas such as As The World Turns and All My Children before landing her big break at age 18 when she was cast in Mean Girls alongside Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams.

Reflecting on her early career, Amanda said she wishes she could be starting out as a young actress now when intimacy coordinators are a regular presence on sets and actors are in a better position to speak up.

She said, “It’s really important for actors to be confident on set.”

The mother-of-two added that being a parent has changed her perspective on things, but she still believes that it’s okay to be proud of your work and to have confidence.

She said, “Nothing can crush me completely, when it comes to work.”

“I’m uncrushable! Not one thing can crush my life, unless it has to do with my family.”

Amanda’s portrayal of disgraced founder Elizabeth Holmes of the now liquidated healthcare company Theranos in the Hulu series The Dropout was a kind of character acting she hadn’t played before.

She said, “You’ve done all this preparation and it’s muscle memory now; you’re already walking and talking differently, so you’re halfway there.”

“Now, you just gotta have the emotion behind it as the character. It’s so fun.”

On her Emmy nomination for Lead Actress, Amanda said, “It’s kind of surreal that we’re here now, that we got nominated, and I got nominated; I got singled out.

“I didn’t spend any part of my career singled out, ever.

“[I had] no expectation of being singled out, and that’s partly my self-deprecating nature.

“Never expecting anything great, preparing for the worst, but just continuing to walk on my path.”

In addition to nailing Holmes’ signature baritone voice, the actress said that achieving the disgraced Theranos founder’s appearance was also a crucial part of her transformation in The Dropout.

She said, “I think it was really important, the tone, to make it feel real.”

Amanda added that despite working hard, she feels she has also enjoyed many “strokes of luck” in her career and has no sense of entitlement when it comes to finding success.

She said, “I’ve never gone a day without feeling like I’ve worked really hard. I have no entitlement.”

“I mean, I’m entitled to respect, I think; we all are. But I have no entitlement issues.”

“I have many strokes of luck and a lot of hard work and a lot of being in the right place at the right time. I understand all of that.”