Amanda Seyfried Nearly Played Joni Mitchell in a Biopic - and Learned to Play an Entire Album

Amanda Seyfried gave one of last year's best and most explosive performances in "The Testament of Ann Lee," a bonkers period musical. She also sang in the two "Mamma Mia" movies (with a third potentially on the horizon) and the Oscar-winning "Les Misérables." But she very nearly starred as one of America's greatest singer-songwriters in a biopic of Joni Mitchell that would have centered on the musician's relationship with her manager, Elliot Roberts, who remained her manager until his death in 2019 at age 76. In a GQ profile of the actress published Monday, Seyfried . . .