Amanda Seyfried Shares Throwback Photo with Michael B. Jordan from All My Children Set, 22 Years Later

Amanda Seyfried shared a throwback from one of her first roles.

On her Instagram stories on Thursday, March 13, Seyfried posted a photo of herself and actor Michael B. Jordan on the set of the soap opera All My Children. “22 years ago dayum,” Seyfried, 39, captioned the throwback post, showing herself with her arm around Jordan’s shoulder, the pair smiling at the camera.

Seyfried appeared as Joni Stafford for five episodes in 2003, 30 years into All My Children’s run on television. Her character’s short arc overlapped with that of Jordan’s Reggie Porter Montgomery, with the two having a tense exchange while each completing their respective community service work.

Both characters had brief run-ins with law enforcement, with Joni being arrested for breaking and entering their high school after using her keys to enter Pine Valley High without permission. Reggie, on the other hand, had been involved in a local gang and was grappling with internal and external pressures to divest himself from the group.

Despite their initially tense introduction, the two began to lean on each other as Reggie broke ties with the gang, with some clear romantic tensions bubbling up. Unfortunately, before much could come of their romance, Seyfried left the show, booking the role of Karen Smith in Mean Girls shortly after.

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Jordan’s role on All My Children was initially played by the late Chadwick Boseman, who was fired after just one week on set. Boseman was allegedly let go after voicing his concerns that Reggie’s character relied too much on racial stereotypes.

“It’s one of those things where you get a role, and you don’t really know,” Boseman said of the part in an interview with The Wrap in 2019.

“When I got it, I was like, ‘This is not part of my manifesto. This is not part of what I want to do,’ ” Boseman said at the time, noting that he’d hoped there was “room for me to adjust this and change it and make it so it’s stereotypical on the page but not on the screen.”

“They said, ‘You are too much trouble,’ but they took my suggestions, or some of them,” he added, though he noted he was still fired and replaced with Jordan shortly after. “And for me, honestly, that’s what this is about.”

“I’m younger than Chad, and I was coming into All My Children fresh off The Wire — wide open, still learning,” Jordan, now 38, said in the joint interview at the time. “I was playing this role not knowing that a lot of the things I was going through were because of what he’d already done for me.”

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