Amanda Peet

It was a short order, not a tall order.

And then as soon as I got to college, I started... I sort of walked in confidently to all these auditions and I never got a single play.

I auditioned for 20 plays.

It was as if they had already decided...

they already had their own clique.

I took a teenage acting class that my mom found for me starting when I was 13, too, as well as being in psychoanalysis.

No, but what about college?

That was at HB Studios.

So eventually my teacher— HB Studios?

Yes.

So eventually my teacher said, you know, you really need to study with Uta Hagen.

And so my junior year at college, I auditioned for Uta Hagen.

No, I was studying American history.

There wasn't a drama program.

What's happening, Sean?

Oh, that's Scotty?

I hadn't really admitted it quite yet.

I still think... And I had... It's almost like, you know, what people say, like, you know, like a self-hating Jew or something like that.

I was like a self-hating actor.

Yeah, so then once I was in Uta's class, I was in an adult class at age 18.