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Amanda Seyfried has some frank opinions on the works of Amanda Seyfried—including cult classic Jennifer’s Body, which Seyfried openly says is a “perfect film” that was “ruined” by its marketing.

Seyfried was dishing on her career as part of a longer video piece with GQ this week, in which she went over major portions of her filmography, often with a pretty harsh eye. (She’s not a fan of herself in First Reformed, for instance, giving all credit for the film’s brilliance to Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke.) With 2009’s Jennifer Body, though, she’s unequivocally positive about everyone involved in the movie—Megan Fox, writer Diablo Cody, director Karyn Kusama, and even, tacitly, herself—except for the people who cooked up its advertising campaign. “The marketing team cheapened it. Like it was just a gory romp. And they ruined it.” (She’s also pretty enthusiastic about the idea of doing a sequel, saying she’s already said yes to the concept, and building on co*ments she made earlier this month while on the red carpet.)

The interview also features what we can’t help but feel is an obvious bit of Seyfried angling to get herself another movie musical, largely by ripping on her work in an old one: She’s apparently really not happy with her work in 2012’s Les Misérables, calling the experience of singing live on film “infuriating,” and dinging herself for not being technically up to snuff with castmates like Eddie Redmayne, Samantha Barks, or Anne Hathaway. Seyfried (who also starred in both Mamma Mia films, and confirmed in a recent episode of Happy Sad Confused that she’d auditioned with Cynthia Erivo for Wicked—and not necessarily to Erivo’s liking) ends the Les Mis section by noting that, “I know what I would have liked to sound like; I would have liked to sound like I sound now.” The “Hear that, directors of new movie musicals?” is presumably implied.