'The Dropout' star Amanda Seyfried says she had the same cringeworthy dance skills as Elizabeth Holmes in high school

• Amanda Seyfried says she had the same awkward dancing skills as Elizabeth Holmes in high school.
• The actor told The WSJ she took inspiration from her school dance routines for one sequence.

Amanda Seyfried and Elizabeth Holmes shared a key trait while attending high school: terrible dancing.

That's according to the actor, who gave an interview to The Wall Street Journal. She won an Emmy for her portrayal of Holmes in "The Dropout" and carried out some cringeworthy dance sequences during the series.

When asked about the "strong response" she received from the scenes, Seyfried told the Journal her dancing skills weren't much better than the disgraced founder's.

"Elizabeth Holmes was also on the dance team in high school," Seyfried said. "I was like, God, we're so similar. We were on the dance team and we weren't good." The actor said she even took inspiration from her own high-school dance activities for one of the sequences.

Seyfried previously told Entertainment Tonight most of the dance scenes in the Hulu series were improvised. She described them as being about "finding the wrong move or finding that weird, awkward rhythm that you want to hide."

Since the release of "The Dropout," Holmes has been serving time in a minimum-security women's prison in Bryan, Texas. Holmes was convicted on four of 11 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy, all related to her infamous healthcare-tech startup, Theranos.

Seyfried has previously called the sentence, which has recently been shortened, — "fair" but said she sympathized with Holmes's children "as a mom." Holmes has a son who was born in 2021 and a daughter who was born this year.

"I feel for those kids," Seyfried said during a "Good Morning America" appearance in May. "There are two kids that are hanging in the balance here."