--- title: Amanda Seyfried Replacing Mila Kunis in Seth MacFarlane's Ted 2 description: Seth MacFarlane has tapped the actress to play the female lead for his teddy bear sequel canonical: https://time.com/9645/ted-2-amanda-seyfried-mila-kunis-seth-macfarlane/ author: Megan Gibson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-25T12:51:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T06:29:03.776Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Amanda Seyfried Replacing Mila Kunis in Seth MacFarlane's Ted 2 og:description: Seth MacFarlane has tapped the actress to play the female lead for his teddy bear sequel og:url: https://time.com/9645/ted-2-amanda-seyfried-mila-kunis-seth-macfarlane/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb121c2682072565/698683011eebf7a73a36f8d3/453417673.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Amanda Seyfried Press Conference In Seoul og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Amanda Seyfried Replacing Mila Kunis in Seth MacFarlane's Ted 2 twitter:description: Seth MacFarlane has tapped the actress to play the female lead for his teddy bear sequel twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb121c2682072565/698683011eebf7a73a36f8d3/453417673.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sorry, Mila Kunis: Amanda Seyfried To Star in _Ted 2_ by [Megan Gibson / London](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson / London Feb 25, 2014 12:51 PM UTC  Amanda Seyfried attends the press conference at RAUM on December 4, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea. Amanda Seyfried attends the press conference at RAUM on December 4, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea.Han Myung-Gu— WireImage by [Megan Gibson / London](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson / London Feb 25, 2014 12:51 PM UTC Amanda Seyfried has been tapped to play the female lead [in _Ted 2_](http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/amanda-seyfried-set-by-seth-macfarlane-for-ted-sequel/), the sequel to Seth MacFarlane’s 2012 buddy flick about a man and his talking teddy bear. [_Deadline_](http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/amanda-seyfried-set-by-seth-macfarlane-for-ted-sequel/) reports that Seyfried will be taking over for Mila Kunis, who played the female lead as Mark Wahlberg’s love interest in the original film. Kunis will reportedly only have a small role in the sequel, if she appears at all. MacFarlane will obviously be returning as the writer, director and voice of Ted. Though MacFarlane has had a long working relationship with Kunis—she voices Meg on _Family Guy_—Seyfried stars in his upcoming comic western, _A Million Ways To Die in the West._ But according to Deadline, there’s no dark side to the change up. It seems the decision has nothing to do with Kunis and everything to do with “a creative decision that MacFarlane decided to take with the plotting of the sequel.” \[[_Deadline_](http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/amanda-seyfried-set-by-seth-macfarlane-for-ted-sequel/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/9645/ted-2-amanda-seyfried-mila-kunis-seth-macfarlane/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/9645/ted-2-amanda-seyfried-mila-kunis-seth-macfarlane/"},"headline":"Sorry, Mila Kunis: Amanda Seyfried To Star in Ted 2","datePublished":"2014-02-25T12:51:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:29:03.776Z","description":"Seth MacFarlane has tapped the actress to play the female lead for his teddy bear sequel","url":"https://time.com/9645/ted-2-amanda-seyfried-mila-kunis-seth-macfarlane/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb121c2682072565/698683011eebf7a73a36f8d3/453417673.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson / London"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb121c2682072565/698683011eebf7a73a36f8d3/453417673.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Amanda Seyfried Press Conference In Seoul","caption":"Amanda Seyfried Press Conference In Seoul","creditText":"Han Myung-Gu— WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/9645/ted-2-amanda-seyfried-mila-kunis-seth-macfarlane/","name":"Sorry, Mila Kunis: Amanda Seyfried To Star in Ted 2"}}]}] ```