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On Wednesday, Amanda Seyfried told The Scott Mills Breakfast Show that while filming nude scenes for her leading role in The Testament of Ann Lee, she wore—drumroll, please—a prosthetic butthole.
And folks, it’s news like this that I come to the internet for.

The Testament of Ann Lee is a historical musical drama about…Ann Lee, the religious leader who journeyed from England to America in the 1700s to form the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, a Christian sect known as the Shakers. “This movie needed to be graphic, so I had a prosthetic butthole,” Seyfried explained. Yes, naturally, you would need a prosthetic butthole for this movie about a celibate religious sect, Amanda. I completely agree.
[!PROSTHETIC BUTTHOLE SPOILER ALERT!] The prosthetic in question appears in one of the film’s final scenes. “I was pregnant and naked, but I wasn’t naked at all, and at the end of the movie, I’m standing in front of a burning building with just a merkin,” she explained. “I felt so free.”

Unfortunately, she did clarify: “You cannot see my butthole in the scene, but I swear there is a prosthetic butthole there.” Release the butthole cut.

“It was cool. It was exciting,” she added. Sure. No big deal, Amanda. Like you didn’t just sell me the entire film in one sentence.
Whenever I’m sinking into the dull monotony of existence, I can always count on her to drop an unhinged quote and bring me back to life. Take, for example, the amazing bit of press she did for The Housemaid earlier this year, when she revealed she had “no idea” she was a producer on the film until three weeks into production.
Even if this prosthetic butthole story is just a sneaky bit of PR, you’ve gotta admit—at least it’s creative. I’ve heard a million press soundbites that are boring at best. Oh, Margot Robbie got Jacob Elordi a matching ring on the set of Wuthering Heights? I’m falling asleep. Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson fell in love on the set of The Naked Gun. What do you take me for? An idiot?
Where’s the originality? Where’s the whimsy? Where are the prosthetic buttholes????
We need more celebrities like Seyfried who are willing to be silly, because media training is SO last year. This year, let’s get a little crazy with our PR. We could all use a bit more silliness in our lives.
Fewer assholes, more prosthetic buttholes. Thank you.

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[AssignedEva]

Do we need a movie about the Shakers to have sex in it? They were a fucking celibate doomsday cult that literally died out because they refused to have kids. It'd be more accurate to make them a bunch of incel chuds angry at their neighbors for being degenerates who have kids and even that isn't accurate.

They're providing a narrative for why Ann Lee was so anti-sex, namely that she was put off of it. She had four children with her husband (who she hadn't want to marry anyway) but they all died and after that she swore off sex for the rest of her life. That in itself is pretty sufficient to explain it, but for some reason in the film they make him into BDSM (possibly to help illustrate the point to modern audiences).

They also make William Lee kind of gay. In real life he took a wife. The decision to make him secretly gay appears to have been motivated by this:

Thomas Brown questioned Elder Hezekiah Rowley on that point, and though Rowley at first repeatedly denied that naked dancing ever occurred, he eventually admitted that years ago, during the time of Mother Ann Lee, such events did take place. He related to Brown an incident that included Lee’s own brother William (an amateur boxer described by one former Shaker as “a man of great personal beauty”). Recalled Rowley:

One day, in the afternoon, William Lee, having drank very freely, fell asleep; when he awoke, he ordered the brethren (in number about twenty) to be assembled, I being one with them. William Lee then informed us, that he had a gift [i.e., a divine revelation] to rejoice—and ordered us to strip ourselves naked; and as we stood ready to dance, Mother Ann Lee came to the door of the room with one of the sisters. William Lee requested her to stay out, as he had a gift to rejoice with the brethren. Still she persisted. He said to her again, Mother, do go out—I have got a gift to rejoice with the brethren; and why can’t you let us rejoice? you know if any of the sisters are with us, we shall have war, that is, have to fight against the rising of nature.

Ann Lee refused to go away, eventually attempting to climb in through a window. The confrontation with her brother turned physical: “I immediately stepped in between them, and cried out, for God’s sake, Father William, don’t strike Mother! I had rather you would strike me. The brethren, who had stood [naked]waiting the event, then gathered round and prevented further blows. There was a hard threatening on both sides. Thus ended the gift of rejoicing.”

"Trying to do naked dancing with the Shaker men behind his sister's back" does sound kind of gay, but that's only one possible explanation and it's more likely to do with their bizarre spirituality.

Basically I think they wanted to make a shocking musical about sex and one woman's rejection of sexuality, rather than specifically a historically accurate retelling of the life of Ann Lee (which was already plenty weird as she thought she was the second coming of Jesus).

 

[Otterly]

I’m standing in front of a burning building with just a merkin,”

Ahhh… we’ve all been there, Amanda…

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

I hate every line of this article.

Everyone who contributed to the existence of this article should be shot dead.

Scott Mills

The most objectionable bit of the article, I think.

Also, this is a movie about a celibate, pacifist Christian sect, by all accounts the most chill and progressive such group of its time. Where the hell does "this movie needed to be graphic" come from?