For Amanda Seyfried, who’s played both a trend-obsessed popular girl in Mean Girls and a biotech fraud in The Dropout, taking on the role of a Philadelphia police officer in Long Bright River is another challenge in her resume of eclectic roles.

For Amanda Seyfried, the Peacock limited series offered a rare opportunity to play a character adapted from a book while working closely alongside the author, Liz Moore.

Amanda Seyfried is not the type of face you think of when you picture a hardened Philadelphia cop. A French orphan whose world is upended by revolution, or a bride-to-be who sneakily invites the three men who could be her father to her sunny Greek island wedding,