Five reasons I’ve decided to become obsessed with Amanda Peet.
- She’s a better actress than her choice of films might lead you to believe. Rent Identity.
- According to her appearance on the Letterman show tonight, her boyfriend is a writer. She dates writers.
- She’s the smartest actress the world has ever known, Jodie Foster be damned. I quote from E! Online:
“When asked why moviegoers went crazy for her as a dental assistant cum hit woman in the comedy The Whole Nine Yards, she sagely answers, “Um, ‘cause I took my clothes off?”
“Probed about how freshly scrubbed New York City looks on her television show Jack & Jill, she responds, “Because it’s a fucking set on the back lot of Warner Bros. in Los Angeles, that’s why.”
“Girls on TV don’t have to be funny–just hot,” she says.”
- Even in bad movies (Whipped, Saving Silverman) she can deliver comic dialogue. I’m a sucker for a woman who can deliver comic dialogue.
