Amanda Seyfried is walking on sunshine

MANILA, Philippines - Amanda Seyfried is a rare young star who continues to thrive in Hollywood despite having no background in anything remotely Disney or Nickelodeon.

In the past year, the 24-year-old actress has starred in Dear John, a Nicholas Sparks tearjerker; Mama Mia!, Jennifer’s Body  and romantic flick Letters to Juliet.

Letters to Juliet will make Amanda a bona fide celebrity.

In it, Amanda plays Sophie, a young woman who travels to Verona, home of fiction’s most well-known tragic couple Romeo and Juliet. Sophie finds an unanswered love letter and chases down its owner, Claire (played by Vanessa Redgrave), in an attempt to make things right.

One would think starring in two heart-tugging movies in a year would turn even the most unemotional realist into a romantic. For Amanda, whose parents have been together for almost 30 years, that’s not the case.

Although Letters to Juliet was “very romantically shot in a very romantic place,” it didn’t change Amanda’s perspective.

”A lot of people ask me, ‘Is Dominic (Cooper, her boyfriend) the one? I don’t know, and I’m fine with that. Too much planning can lead to heartbreak. Love is great and possible, always, but it’s very rare to have the feeling that I want to be with this person forever,” she says.

Lest we peg Amanda as a stone-cold cynic and revoke her membership in Hallmark’s card of the month club, she does melt a little when she talks about past relationships.

“I can’t remember if he said I love you first, or if I did,” she says of her first serious boyfriend, Micah Alberti from All My Children, at age 17. “But I do remember when my ex Jesse said it to me, it took my breath away.”