Amanda Peet

I was swinging for the fences.

March 27th.

I'm screaming deep inside, look at me act.

People keep saying that.

Can I just say something?

Yeah.

It's not like I chose to not work in a movie for 10 years.

I just couldn't get arrested.

Honestly, it's really just, is the writing good?

And in this particular case, this indie writer came to me with this idea of, this was before Baby Girl.

It's basically like a sort of upper crust mom who has... This is Matthew Shearer?

The upper crust mom, yeah.

Yes, but Matthew Shearer, it's like she has an affair with a mani, basically.

She hires a mani for her kids.

Yes.

And when I read the script on about page 15, this neurotic, speaking of neurotic Jews from New York, he has a scene with his shrink where he's talking about his OCD with Judd Hirsch, and he's having these...

self-hating jew intrusive thoughts where he sees like a jewish guy on the subway with a big nose like david and he says hook nose hook nose hook nose and he thinks he's gonna say it out loud and i was like well this is brilliant i want to do this oh wow so fucking funny yeah

How funny is he?

March 27th.

Dense and busy.