Amanda Peet Shares What It's Like for Her Shooting Sex Scenes at 53: Just 'Show Me Where to Be' (Exclusive)

Amanda Peet had nary hesitations astir jumping into activity scenes successful Your Friends & Neighbors.

In nan Apple TV+ acheronian comedy, nan actress, 53, plays Mel Cooper, a therapist who divided from her hubby Andrew "Coop" Cooper (Jon Hamm) aft having an matter pinch his NBA-playing champion friend Nick Brandes (Mark Tallman).

The show puts Peet successful steamy scenes pinch some Hamm and Tallman, and aft 30-plus years successful nan industry, she tells PEOPLE there's not overmuch that tin faze her.

"Dude, I've been doing this for truthful long, I'm conscionable like, 'Show maine wherever to be. Show maine who to kiss. Who do I person to make retired pinch today?'" Peet said connected nan reddish carpet of nan Los Angeles Emmy FYC arena for nan show connected May 17. "Whenever I spot Lizzy [Talbot], nan intimacy coordinator, I'm like, 'Wait, I person a activity scene?' And she's like, 'No, dear. It's personification else.' It's truthful funny erstwhile I spot her, I'm like, 'Oh my God, I forgot I person a activity scene.'"

Of playing Hamm's ex-wife, Peet says, "It's nosy to play exes who can't rather fto it go."

"I conscionable consciousness for illustration [show creator Jonathan] Tropper wrote a really awesome character," she says. "I emotion my worldly pinch Jon. He's a gentleman, and he's a really bully leader connected nan set. He's not a snob, and I admit that."

Like Hamm's character, who gets fired from his hedge money occupation astatine nan opening of nan series, Peet says she erstwhile sewage fired from a waitressing job.

"I had ne'er waitressed, truthful I put that I had and past made up a edifice that was successful San Francisco, moreover though I was from New York, and past gave my boyfriend's number arsenic nan reference," she says. "Then, connected my first day, it was for illustration an Italian edifice wherever they had a pizza oven. A beautiful mates whose array I was assigned to asked maine if I could lukewarm nan bread, which was successful a breadstuff basket. I put nan full point successful nan pizza oven. I didn't commencement a fire, but nan dude was like, 'You're fired, you dumb, character type.'"

Peet antecedently told PEOPLE that her Your Friends & Neighbors characteristic appealed to her because Mel is simply a "middle-aged divorcée" who "isn't depressed and bitter and sitting astir connected her sofa drinking Chardonnay and hoping to find a measurement to commencement online dating."

"I for illustration that you travel into it, and she's having a batch of activity pinch a gorgeous erstwhile NBA subordinate and getting retired location already, and that [Coop is] nan 1 who is benignant of much bitter," she said. "I deliberation [Tropper] conscionable had a really absorbing measurement of illustrating her peculiar marque of suburban ennui."

The play finale of Your Friends & Neighbors — which has already begun shooting its 2nd play — airs May 30 connected Apple TV+.