‘Lovelace’ actress Amanda Seyfried, who portrays porn actress Linda Lovelace in the new film, disagrees with plans to block internet porn in the UK.
Speaking to BANG Showbiz at a special screening of her new movie at London’s May Fair Hotel last night (12.08.13), she said: “You can’t put a ban on it. I mean, kids under age are still drinking. It just makes it that much more powerful. It’s freedom … You should be free to watch it whenever you want.”
Amanda admitted she doesn’t enjoy porn herself and her first brush with X-rated material when she was just six was “disturbing”.
She explained: “I’ve watched porn, yes. Enjoyed? No. I saw some when I was six. It was really disturbing. There was a policeman … I was at my friend’s house and their parents weren’t around and the older brother, who, I think was 10 at the time, puts this on and I was just blown away.”
The real-life Linda Lovelace starred in iconic blue movie ‘Deep Throat’ -reportedly the most successful porn film of all time – but despite recreating scenes from the skin flick in ‘Lovelace’, Amanda could only sit through 10 minutes of the original before turning it off.
She added: “I hadn’t seen ‘Deep Throat’ really. I don’t even know [I could say] I even watched it [properly] … I watched like 10 minutes of it. It was interesting.”
Amanda was joined at the special screening by her co-star Peter Sarsgaard.
‘Lovelace’ is in cinemas on August 23.
