Amanda Peet is pulling back the threadbare curtain on\u00a0life underneath the spotlight.<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old actress called out Hollywood as nothing but \u201csmoke and mirrors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous,\u201d Peet told Fox News Digital when asked about the \u201cbiggest misconception\u201d of stars having a \u201cperfect life\u201d in Hollywood. \u201cIt\u2019s smoke and mirrors. There\u2019s no\u00a0there\u00a0there. I mean you name the aphorism, it applies to us. It\u2019s desperation galore. \u2018What are they doing over there? Why don\u2019t I have that? Why don\u2019t I look like that?\u2019 That\u2019s the bad part.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continued, \u201cIn Hollywood, it\u2019s hard to \u2014 I\u2019m gonna just sound corny. It\u2019s competitive, and it\u2019s hard to get out of that really sort of competitive mindset where the piece of cheese on the island is too small and there are too many people going after it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cSomething\u2019s Gotta Give\u201d actress added that aging in the youth-obsessed industry isn\u2019t easy either.<\/p>\n
Amanda Peet called out Hollywood as nothing but \u201csmoke and mirrors.\u201d FOX News<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m older, so I have much more peace about it, but it\u2019s really, really hard to find that, and it is hard not to want to chase your own buzz if you are lucky enough to have any, and instead, just be like, \u2018What do I really want to do when my alarm goes off in the morning? What do I want to be doing? Is this really what I want to be doing? Is this really helpful or useful to anyone?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Peet is starring in the second season of Apple TV\u2019s \u201cYour Friends & Neighbors,\u201d which premieres on Friday, April 3 with one new episode each week through June 5.<\/p>\n
She said fans can expect a \u201clot more\u201d from Season 2.<\/p>\n
Amanda Peet at Apple TV\u2019s premiere of \u201cYour Friends & Neighbors\u201d on March 30, 2026. Erik Pendzich\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
\u201cThen also there\u2019s the issue of Coop having this secret life,\u201d Peet said of Jon Hamm\u2019s character who plays her ex-husband on the show.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think\u00a0this season, one too many people are starting to get an inkling that something\u2019s going on with Coop,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd so it gets more and more dangerous for him to keep doing what he\u2019s doing, which is incredibly exciting. And then [her character] Mel and Coop are still in this kind of like, will they, won\u2019t they? They\u2019re so p\u2014ed off at each other, but they still seem to wanna f\u2014 each other. So yeah, it\u2019s just really a whole big hot mess.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peet said she also appreciated a storyline where her character deals with going into menopause, which she said was cathartic for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very cathartic to be able to put my own menopausal frustrations and rage into an appropriate situation, namely be acting out as a character instead of in my own life,\u201d Peet revealed.<\/p>\n
The \u201cSomething\u2019s Gotta Give\u201d actress added that aging in the youth-obsessed industry isn\u2019t easy either. \u00a9Apple TV\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
The actress has also been open about her\u00a0breast cancer\u00a0diagnosis, which she announced earlier this month.<\/p>\n
She told Fox News Digital that when she first heard the news, her thoughts were filled with \u201cterror.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy children and terror,\u201d she admitted.<\/p>\n
Peet said she made the decision to not tell her dying mother \u201cbecause she wasn\u2019t well for so long that it was, you know, fairly obvious that I, you know, on the off chance that she would have been able to understand, I wouldn\u2019t have wanted to scare her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, it wasn\u2019t a hard decision, it was just sort of hard in a more global way because I had been so close to her all my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peet revealed her breast cancer diagnosis in a\u00a0New Yorker\u00a0essay last Saturday, saying that she is stage I and doesn\u2019t need chemotherapy, but will undergo a lumpectomy and radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Peet is pulling back the threadbare curtain on\u00a0life underneath the spotlight. The 54-year-old actress called out Hollywood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[173052,6491,96,123,56,54,55,127324],"class_list":{"0":"post-505004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-amanda-peet","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hollywood","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-walk-of-fame"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}