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

"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

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.

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.

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.

The dramatic series sees Seyfried embody a police officer trying to do her best in one of Philadelphia’s roughest neighborhoods. It’s hard enough to be a police officer on the mean streets of Philadelphia,

Actress Amanda Seyfried said that during her commute to film her latest series, Long Bright River, she would listen to Taylor Swift 'really loud' if she needed to decompress