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 Amanda Peet
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime There are some things that ultimately never change in the course of any successful career, even if it is in an entertainment medium like film, and that’s parenting. As anyone can tell you, parenting is a radical change in anybody’s life. It’s a process that involves becomingly less self-serving as you’re thrust into putting your heart into a new life procreated. And actress Amanda Peet is no different, as she had become pregnant with her first child in the midst of completing work on Peet’s latest film, an adaptation of David Gerrold’s novelette Martian Child, alongside siblings John and Joan Cusack. “I was pregnant in the end when we did some additional shooting,” Amanda recalls, “We did a bowling scene and I fell and I got really scared and I had literally been pregnant for two minutes and the baby was probably like the size of a little piece of grain of salt. Then, I started crying. I’m like, John, I’m pregnant! Could the baby be hurt! And he was like, Jesus, call your husband! I was such a drama queen. I mean I literally was a nightmare.” Martian Child deals with John Cusack as a science fiction writer who adopts a boy who believes he’s from Mars. Early on, the 35 year-old actress professed to have had a crush on the actor from her youth and even gave specifics as to when she first noticed him on screen. “Probably The Sure Thing, maybe, and then, Say Anything. I mean, who didn’t have a crush on him after that movie?” Peet gushes. With that, it had to be asked whether or not her co-star noticed any of Amanda’s old admirations of him during filming. “Yeah. It was hard to miss,” she admits, “It’s just nerves. When you’re working with someone new, it’s a little awkward, but obviously, we love each other…or I love him anyway. I don’t want to be presumptuous!” A noticeable difference with this particular film is that unlike main characters in most dramas, Peet’s character Harlee, who’s John Cusack’s character David’s close friend, doesn’t ever end up becoming anything more than that. “I feel like it wasn’t in the script at all, so we put a little more of it in, I think,” Amanda explains, “There’s a potential there, but it’s left ambiguous. It’s not my choice to resist it, because I’m just the actor. I don’t get into those meetings, but I don’t think, in a nice romantic comedy when the people end up together, just because something breaks the mold doesn’t mean that it’s good to me. Just like because something is an indie, artsy movie doesn’t mean it’s good. We’re smart. There are smart romantic comedies where you know what’s going to happen, but they’re really beautiful and smart anyway.” The actress also shared with us what director Manno Meyes was like on set. Born in the Netherlands, Meyes is best known for writing the script to the 1985 film The Color ... |
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