A disconcerting number of entertainment news website headlines printed on Thursday center on Hollywood actress Amanda Seyfried’s revelation that she was outfitted with a “prosthetic butthole” during a scene filmed for the 2025 historical drama musical The Testament of Ann Lee about the founder of the “Shakers” Christian sect, the plot of which evidently required a production costumer to design and fabricate a custom prosthetic anus and fake public hair “merkin” for Seyfried to wear.
It’s not clear why the director, Mona Fastvoid, couldn’t have just maybe set the scene differently as to merely imply the exposure rather than necessitating the prosthesis which, by its very nature and intent, was indistinguishable from the real thing to audiences who watched the film in theaters.
Also, what the fuck, why? Why? Sparing the actress’s modesty by use of the “prosthetic butthole” while true, absolves the director from not even fucking needing it in the first place. Jesus Christ what the hell is wrong with these people and are they really this hell-bent on forcing those of us in the middle of the political/cultural spectrum to have to qualify with “Okay, yeah that butthole thing in The Testament of Ann Lee was excessive, but” every time we knock MAGA Evangelicals’ constant overreactions to the “ungodly wickedness” of Hollywood? Fucking lefty film school edgelords.