There was a time when Joni Mitchell was to have a biopic in which she would be depicted by Amanda Seyfried. The latter has revealed in a GQ piece that she was on deck to play the Canadian songwriter in "a movie about her and Elliot Roberts," Mitchell's manager.

Seyfried met with Mitchell at her house, where they listened to 1971's Blue together. "After we listened to the album, she's like, 'It's sparse, isn't it?,'" Seyfried recalled, who replied with a gushing "it's perfect!"

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Seyfried learned how to play the whole album. "The day that I finished learning the last song on the album, 'Richard,' I fucking wept. I felt like a bona fide musician, like I belong here. I felt like I had put my own flag on the top of the mountain. Because it was a fucking mountain, I tell you."

In the end, nothing happened with Seyfried's Mitchell, and Roberts passed away. Cameron Crowe's film about the musician subsequently grew momentum. Seyfried explained that several people demanded Crowe give her the lead part, but he supposedly declined on a basis of "she's really young and then she's older."

Last year, Seyfried performed Blue track "California" on the dulcimer during an interview on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show Check it out below.