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Amanda Peet returns to film after a decade in Matthew Shear’s ‘Fantasy Life’
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Amanda Peet returns to film after a decade in Matthew Shear’s ‘Fantasy Life’

ARY News · May 21, 2026, 9:08 AM

Key takeaways

  • Add ARY News on Google AAResize Amanda Preet, famous for her role as Dianne in Fantasy Life, who has been away from Hollywood for a decade, has been struggling with depression.
  • Peet candidly revealed that while promoting the film about not having had the career she thought she would when she first started in movies a couple of decades ago.
  • Matthew Shear wrote, directed, and appears in Fantasy Life, and the film leans into awkward chemistry instead of smoothing it over.

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Add ARY News on Google AAResize Amanda Preet, famous for her role as Dianne in Fantasy Life, who has been away from Hollywood for a decade, has been struggling with depression.

Peet candidly revealed that while promoting the film about not having had the career she thought she would when she first started in movies a couple of decades ago. That gives her casting an extra layer: she is playing a woman whose career has frozen while talking publicly about the gap between early expectations and where a screen career actually lands.

Matthew Shear wrote, directed, and appears in Fantasy Life, and the film leans into awkward chemistry instead of smoothing it over. Sam and Dianne develop instant and very inconvenient chemistry, which is the kind of friction a dramedy needs if it wants the romance to feel costly rather than decorative.

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