a Golden Globe-nominated actor

who's been getting great reviews

for her performance in the movie "Mank,"

which is streaming now on Netflix.

Here is Amanda Seyfried.

Ah! Look at -- yeah.

Thank you so much for being here.

[ Scat sings ] I'm so happy you're here.

Love your background, by the way, too.

[ Knocking ]

It better be someone I --

-That was an intense knock.

Yeah, go on in and you're stuck for a minute.

You can go up.

Yeah, no, no, you can go up here, this way.

-I'm getting nervous. -Come on in.

Sorry.

-[ Laughing ]

I'm in a temporary home.

Our dryer is broken.

[ Laughter ]

And there's a chair in front of the gate [indistinct]

and my husband and daughter --

-I just got so scared.

Oh, my gosh.

This is the funniest thing.

Are you kidding me?

Good. You have to get that.

No, you have things to do.

You have things to take care of.

-But also, did you hear that knock?

-Frightening. -It was so aggressive.

-I felt like I was going to be interviewed,

like in -It was going to be

-"Dateline." -a [bleep] SWAT team.

Yes. -I thought something was going down. I go --

I want to talk about "Mank."

Obviously, I have a thousand questions,

but I want to get into this interview

because you posted something on Instagram recently --

and that's how I get my news --

-Same. -and it is your first magazine cover.

Can we see this photo?

Now, at first I go, I kind of --

I didn't understand what was going on

because it's Clay Aiken.

-Sure. Yeah. -Yeah.

-He's on the cover as well.

-[ Laughing ] -But right there,

front and center... -Can we zoom in?

-...whose face do you see?

Mine. -Yeah!

[ Clapping ] Aw, come on. -Look at that cutie.

-How exciting is that, though? You're on the cover

of "Entertainment Weekly." -It was so exciting.

A big deal in our family and I've never been on it again.

-[ Laughs ] -Not that I'm sad about it.

It's just -- Yeah. -Wait for Clay to have another album

and then we'll start talking.

-Yeah, okay. Yeah, no, I didn't think

about that, but that's true.

-You've been on many, many

awesome magazine covers since.

You've had a great career.

You've been getting rave reviews for your latest movie, "Mank."

You got your first Golden Globe nomination,

so congrats on that one, buddy. -Yeah. Thanks.

Thanks. [ Laughs ] -How was how was the virtual

Golden Globe experience? What was that like?

-Preferable, because I -- -Really?

I could do without the red carpet hoopla

because it ends up being like a cluster eff

and, as fun as it seems

and as glamorous as it seemed, it was really awkward.

You know, it's a pretty awkward place

and you're being like thrown and forced everywhere.

I have my kids on the floor in front of me --

comfortably --

while I was sitting there watching the Globes.

And I could do things between, like at commercial breaks.

It was great. -Did you get to talk to anyone,

besides your kids?

-The DP from "Mank" is in town where we are

and he's shooting my husband's movie, actually,

and he came and took pictures with his wife.

They're wonderful. And I talked to Glenn

and all first-name basis, now, I guess.

Glenn, Olivia... -Wow! Oh, so you got to talk

-...Helena -to the nominees.

-Jo-- Yeah. Yeah.

And I kept seeing Olivia going like this

and then I realized she was asking for the baby.

[ Laughs ] -Aw!

-And so I held the baby up like --

Like, you know, in "Lion King."

-[ Laughing ] -and then I felt like I was

taking too much time away from everybody else.

Yeah. -You crushed it, though,

You play this Hollywood actress, Marion Davies,

and, man, are you stunning in this movie

and just, you can't take your eyes off you.

It was fantastic.

Did he film that on regular cameras?

How did you pull that off?

-It's called David Fincher and his brain.

He collects the best of everybody.

The best production designer, the best costume designers,

hair and makeup -- everything.

Everybody is the best at what they do.

He made an authentic world.

He recreated the San Simeon. and I mean, I don't know.

I was just -- I was very --

I was cast in October

and we started shooting in November.

I just had to quickly keep up with, you know,

study her and research her and do as much as I could.

I mean, the script was perfect. But it was incredible.

It was so fun to feel transported every day.

-Yeah. -And then walk past the monitor

and see it's all black and white.

What?! -For people who have not seen "Mank," yet,

can you tell everyone what it's about?

-"Mank" is about Herman J. Mankiewicz,

who wrote the first draft of "Citizen Kane," which is

-[ Clapping ] -the greatest movie ever made, right?

For a lot of people. -Yeah.

-And it's about how he wrote it

and why he wrote it and where he was.

And the backstory behind "Citizen Kane,"

which is this big newspaper magnate,

based on William Randolph Hearst;

and his wife, based on Marion Davies,

inspired by Marion Davies.

They're not the same person.

-Of course.

Like it's really great to me to be able to clarify,

you know, the difference.

-It was so fun to watch and so it didn't --

You know, I know you've been on the show so many times.

It was just great acting.

It was like I was just in -- -Thanks.

I was like watching a different person.

It was amazing. But it was just beautiful.

Fun to watch.

Congrats on all the nominations

and the awards buzz you're getting for this.

I want to show everyone a clip from the movie.

Here's Amanda Seyfried in "Mank."

Take a look at this.

-I need a favor, but you're going to have to promise

you won't laugh. -Given the state of the world,

a tall order. -You're gonna.

I just know you are.

-I have got such a hangover right now,

there's just a fighting chance I won't.

-I'm being burned at the stake

and I am dying for a ciggy-boo.

[ Laughter ]

There! God's punishing you.

Watch those stairs.

They're treacherous.

-Every moment of my life is treacherous.

Any last words?

-Welcome to San Simeon.

-I've written worse. -You've never seen it?

-No, but George Bernard Shaw was right.

-How's that?

-It's what God might have built, had he had the money.

-Well, as they say in the Bronx,

"Make yourself to home," Mr. Mankiewicz.

Or shall I call you Herman? -No, please call me "Mank."

-Amanda Seyfried, everyone. When we come back,

Amanda and I are putting

our singing skills to the test. Stick around.