The actress recently opened up about turning down the part of Gamora in the original “Guardians of the Galaxy,” a role that later went to Oscar winner Zoé Saldaña. Seyfried admitted that she viewed the movie as a risk to her career at the time — but she was wrong.

James Gunn managed to turn Guardians of the Galaxy into a household name thanks to the success of the 2013 film—a project that very few believed in beforehand. Outside of comic book circles, hardly anyone knew who Gamora,

Amanda Seyfried is standing by a call she made to turn down the offer to star as Gamora in Marvel’s blockbuster franchise “Guardians of the Galaxy.”