Amanda Seyfried feels an "affinity" with women who live "strongly and boldly".

Speaking to reporters at the Cle de Peau Beaute event in Shanghai, China, she said: "I feel great affinity with women who live strong, bold lives, like Tamara de Lempicka. Even in the face of difficulty, it’s important to forge ahead powerfully without flinching, maintaining a sense of conviction.

"If society becomes such a place that women can play active roles while being even more radiant and true to themselves, I think we may be able to resolve the many difficult issues facing the world today."

Meanwhile, the 30-year-old actress previously revealed she was "pigeonholed as the dumb blonde" after starring in 'Mean Girls'.

She said: "I was totally pigeonholed as the dumb blonde after 'Mean Girls'. But it's different now. And 'Mean Girls' was amazing for me, it gave me so much. I was 18, I had no clue what to do with my life; it was either mean girls or college, so it gave me direction.

"I'm too critical; it's a problem with me. I really should

just be doing lays, because then I'll never be able to see [the work], I'll just live with it."

And Amanda also admits she finds social media "depressing".

She said: "If you star in a show with a big obsessive teen audience, you'll get millions of teen followers, but no one else will have heard of you. So it doesn't translate to pop-culture. But for people in other areas of the industry, yes, it's seen as validation. It's so depressing, it's not progress, is it?"