Amanda Seyfried talks about the ‘silver lining’ of having her baby boy amid the ongoing pandemic

She’s the proud mother of a three-year-old girl and a newborn baby boy.

And Amanda Seyfried opened up about the experience of becoming a mother again in the middle of the ongoing pandemic, when she virtually stopped by The Talk on CBS on Thursday.

The Mamma Mia star, 35, remarked that the ‘silver lining’ in the coronavirus lockdown is that she gets to be with her son more.

‘It’s incredible. I just ran back to my house just to sniff him,’ Amanda enthused. 

‘It’s kind of crazy, you know everybody says it’s crazy to be home, but this is a silver lining [because] I get to be with him.’ 

Surely the in-demand star would have otherwise had quite a busy schedule this year, but in light of the production standstill she was able to carve out a substantial chunk of time to care for her infant.

Amanda is married to actor Thomas Sadoski, and the pair share three-year-old daughter Nina.

And earlier this fall, the pair welcomed Thomas Jr.

Seyfried and Sadoski have been married since 2017.

During her chat on The Talk, the Mean Girls star also discussed how her acting sensibility seems to have been inherited by her young daughter.

‘She’s performing all the time. She sings all the time, decently. She’s a decent singer and she’s always performing. She has her dolls. She just doesn’t shut up and it’s a good thing,’ Amanda remarked. 

‘I don’t want her to stop, but sometimes we have to say to her, can you bring it down a notch… I don’t want to stop any of that, but, man, it’s too much sometimes. I’m just like, “Can you just be into science right now?”‘  

This year, Amanda stars in respected filmmaker David Fincher‘s most recent feature, entitled Mank.

The 1930s Hollywood-set period piece also stars Gary Oldman and Lily Collins.