From W.HYYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, Amanda Pete. She's in the new film Fantasy Life and the series Your Friends and Neighbors. Pete is also a writer. In a recent piece in The New Yorker, she writes about being diagnosed with breast cancer while both of her parents were near death.

I didn't really have that why-me-me thing.

Maybe it's because I'm Jewish.

I'm just sort of always waiting for the other shoe to drop.

So in this case, it was three shoes.

Also, we'll talk about Tony Morrison with Harvard professor Namwali Serpel.

She says, no matter how many times she returns to Morrison's work, she finds something new.

She's still haunted by the last sentence of the novel Sula.

When that sentence comes into my life, tears always spring to my eyes.

And David B. and Cooley reviews the new Apple TV series Margot's Got Money Troubles.

That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.

This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley.

Terry Gross has our first interview, and here she is.

My guest is actor and writer Amanda Peet.

She first became known for her roles in the 2000s in films like The Whole Nine Yards, Igby Goes Down, Siriana, and the Nancy Myers film Something's Got to Give, always bringing intelligence and wit to her performances.

She also co-starred on television in shows like Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,

the HBO series Togetherness, the recent reboot of Fatal Attraction,

and now the Apple TV series, Your Friends and Neighbors,

which recently started its second season.

The show is about Coop, played by John Hamm, a hedge fund manager who was pushed out and now makes his money by

stealing from his neighbors in a rich suburb of Manhattan. Amanda Pete plays Mel, his ex-wife,

a former therapist who's struggling with aging, the loss of her career, and her deteriorating

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