How Amanda Seyfried found her (deep) voice as Elizabeth Holmes in 'The Dropout'

Amanda Seyfried is leaning into her computer's camera for an impromptu tutorial. When it was announced that she would be playing disgraced Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes in a new Hulu limited series, most of the focus was on whether she could convincingly mimic Holmes' famous deep baritone.

So, how did she do it?

"Keep your tongue flat in the back — like, flatten it over the back of your teeth," she says, disapprovingly yet encouragingly, her wide eyes narrowing with focus as she observes me stumbling over these vocal Pilates.

"It's funny, this is the first time I'm describing it like this because it became so natural," she says, slipping in and out of the Holmes voice for emphasis. "I was used to it as a muscle memory. So yeah, it's deeper. It's like a kind of Valley girl almost."

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