For Amanda Seyfried, who’s played both a trend-obsessed popular girl in Mean Girls and a biotech fraud in The Dropout, taking on the role of a Philadelphia police officer in Long Bright River is another challenge in her resume of eclectic roles.

For Amanda Seyfried, the Peacock limited series offered a rare opportunity to play a character adapted from a book while working closely alongside the author, Liz Moore.

The dramatic series sees Seyfried embody a police officer trying to do her best in one of Philadelphia’s roughest neighborhoods. It’s hard enough to be a police officer on the mean streets of Philadelphia,