Amanda Seyfried’s Epiphanies

On a recent chilly day in New York City, I met the actress Amanda Seyfried for lunch inside Clement, a quiet, white-tableclothed restaurant at the Peninsula Hotel, in midtown. We’d selected the location because it was near the studios of “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” where she was set to sing a duet with Clarkson, of Clarkson’s 2003 ballad “Beautiful Disaster,” later that afternoon. “It’s, like, a very specific dream come true for someone of our micro-generation,” Seyfried said.