This article contains spoilers for “Long Bright River,” now streaming on Peacock. Two years before Liz Moore's novel "Long Bright River" ever hit shelves in 2020 and became a bestseller - and one of Barack Obama's top books of the year - she was approached by different producers.

The Allentown native plays a Philadelphia police officer in the Kensington-set show based on Liz Moore's book.

For Amanda Seyfried, the Peacock limited series offered a rare opportunity to play a character adapted from a book while working closely alongside the author, Liz Moore.

I've always wanted to play a cop,” Seyfried says. “It's like a childhood dream to play somebody that I just was always in awe of, even though it's funny [because] I'm not g

The actress’s role as a Philadelphia beat cop in this Peacock series seems like an odd fit, but that’s the point. “I just wanted to prove to myself that nothing can feel too foreign,” she said.

Amanda Seyfried says there were two major reasons why she wanted to star in Peacock's adaptation of Liz Moore's best-selling novel "Long Bright River" -- the location and the fact it cast her against type.

"We can see ourselves in each of these people, and that's the point of storytelling,” Seyfried tells PEOPLE of the show, now streaming on Peacock

The “Long Bright River” series premiere drops Thursday, March 13. Stream the entire season today on Peacock.

The talented Amanda Seyfried ("The Dropout"), the thinking woman's beauty, joins the hard-working, blue-collar women of crime. "Long Bright River," the gritty Peacock limited series of eight bingeable episodes,

Amanda Seyfried dishes on her new Peacock limited series "Long Bright River" and fulfilling her dream of playing a police officer, including a traffic stop turned sideways during a ride-along with a real cop.