Amanda Seyfried's Golden Globes Outfit Has More Meaning Than You Realize
Amanda Seyfried is excited about her first Golden Globes nomination! The 35-year-old actress is celebrating her place as a nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture (per Deadline). Seyfried plays actress Marion Davies in Mank, a film about the witty and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, as he rushed to finish film classic Citizen Kane (per Rotten Tomatoes). Davies played Susan Alexander in the iconic film.
Seyfried was excited to take on the role, which allowed her to step back into the Golden Age of Hollywood. She was also excited for the Golden Globes, telling Entertainment Tonight that she was "desperate for a fashion moment." After donning so many stunning looks for the film, it's only natural that the actress would take the opportunity to extend that to the virtual red carpet.
"I'll give it to you, I promise!" she said back in November.
Amanda delivered in her stunning take on Citizen Kane's 'Rosebud'
Amanda did not disappoint when debuting her look for the 78th Golden Globe Awards. She wore an Oscar de la Renta strapless rose-colored silk cady dress. The dress was adorned in hand-crafted taffeta silk flowers (per Entertainment Tonight).
The dress is believed to be a nod to the "Rosebud" from Citizen Kane. They're the last words Kane mutters on his deathbed, and while many believe there's a profound meaning to this final utterance, it's actually the name of his childhood sled, which was one of his fondest memories (per The Guardian). Mank addresses the controversial rumor that Rosebud was in fact a "pet name for Marion's genitalia" (per USA Today).
Historians dispute the reality of that portion of the movie, however. "That story has gone around. I was told it with great authority by more than one person, but I don't believe it," Sydney Ladensohn Stern, author of The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak and Hollywood Classics, said. "Rosebud was the name of a horse Herman bet on at the Kentucky Derby and won. There's even a mule named Rosebud in (another) old movie that Herman wrote. So he had a history of equine animals named Rosebud."