Amanda Seyfried revealed that she initially turned down the role of disgraced Theranos founder, Holmes, in Hulu's new limited series The Dropout. Back in 2019, Seyfried was offered the role after Kate McKinnon, who was set to play Holmes, left the project to work on Peacock's series, Joe vs Carole. At first, the Mamma Mia star wasn't interested. "I had Covid. I was isolating in the basement of a gross townhouse in Georgia, because my husband was working on a movie there. And now an L.A. shoot? Pass!" But once her fever subsided, she had a change of heart. She explained that she was thinking to herself, "It's really going to be difficult," she said. One of those challenges being Holmes' distinct voice. "I knew my voice was never going to be as deep as hers because I'm physically not capable of it." The Dropout follows the unbelievable true story of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong and how the world's youngest self-made female billionaire lost it all in the blink of an eye.