Amanda Peet
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This is Fresh Air. I'm Terrier Gross. My guest is actor and writer Amanda Pete. She first became known for her roles in the 2000s in films like The Whole Nine Yards, Igbee Goes Down, Syriana, and the Nancy Myers film Something's Gotta Give, always bringing intelligence and wit to her performances. She also co-starred on television in shows like Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,
The HBO series Togetherness, the recent reboot of Fatal Attraction, and now the Apple TV series Your Friends and Neighbors, which recently started its second season. The show is about Coop, played by John Hamm, a hedge fund manager who was pushed out and now makes his money by stealing from his neighbors in a rich suburb of Manhattan. Amanda Pete plays Mel, his ex wife, A former therapist who's struggling with aging, the loss of her career, and her deteriorating relationship with her teenage kids. Pete also stars in the new film Fantasy Life, which won the Audience Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
Amanda Pete won the Special Jury Prize for acting. She plays a formerly successful New York actress who starts a relationship with a 20 something former paralegal who's babysitting her children. Amanda Peat is also a great writer. She was co creator and showrunner of the Netflix series The Chair, starring Sandra O, and she recently wrote an essay in The New Yorker about how she was diagnosed with breast cancer. At the same time both of her parents were dying.
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