With Season 2 of Your Friends & Neighbors, Amanda Peet is enjoying what comes with playing her well-rounded character Mel Cooper.
The actress admitted “it is really nice” having series creator and showrunner Jonathan Tropper write her sex scenes at age 54, as well as scenes about the experience of perimenopause, with which she’s familiar.
“Thank goodness it’s less taboo to talk about now,” she told Glamour. “I’m 54, so I’m dealing with all of that shit, and it’s pretty hellish. It was actually really fun—and very real—that Jonathan Tropper put it into Mel’s storyline. We saw her keying that random car last season, and God knows I’ve wanted to key a lot of cars in the last three years. People seemed to be really into that part of Mel, so we were really into the idea that she has a lot of rage.”
Peet added,
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