The Allentown native plays a Philadelphia police officer in the Kensington-set show based on Liz Moore's book.

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.

Amanda Seyfried says there were two major reasons why she wanted to star in Peacock's adaptation of Liz Moore's best-selling novel "Long Bright River" -- the location and the fact it cast her against type.

I've always wanted to play a cop,” Seyfried says. “It's like a childhood dream to play somebody that I just was always in awe of, even though it's funny [because] I'm not g

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.