Amanda had worked with co-star Justin Timberlake before on "Alpha Dog" (2006) and found out they were going to be paired again while she was making "Red Riding Hood" - one of his best friends worked on that film.
"When you have a friend, it makes things easier," she said.
Since making "In Time" and pondering its message, Amanda said she's started managing her own time much better. "We never know when our time is up," she said.
Trying to maximize that time, the busy 25-year-old actress already has completed the "Untitled Mark Webber Project," written and directed by the Philadelphia native and son of activist Cheri Honkala; "Gone," a thriller co-starring Wes Bentley and Jennifer Carpenter; and "The Wedding," a comedy from writer-director Justin Zackham with a huge-name cast.
On her birthday, Amanda said, she shot a scene in that film with Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton.
"It was so awesome," she said.
As for Amanda's local ties, her sister Jennifer, who worked as an artist and musician while living in Philadelphia, has moved to the West Coast, and the two Seyfrieds have bought a house together.
"We're like an old married couple," Amanda said.
'Grace' anatomy
Another producer is trying to make a movie about Philadelphia's princess, Grace Kelly.
The Hollywood Reporter says Pierre-Ange Le Pogam has acquired "Grace of Monaco," a spec script by Arash Amel that sets Grace's personal story amid the politics of the time.
Amel's script focuses on six months in 1962 when the city-state of Monaco got into a heated dispute with France, weary over the petite principality's status as a tax haven. Grace, still a relatively new royal, worked behind the scenes to save Monaco from a coup.
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