Olivia Munn has spoken movingly about her Your friends and neighbors costar Amanda Peet’s breast cancer diagnosis, urging fans to get checked early after Peet’s own experience showed how much timing can matter.
speaks to PEOPLE While promoting season two of their Apple TV+ series, Munn, 45, a breast cancer survivor herself, having been diagnosed in 2023, said she was relieved when Peet confided in her senior year.
“She told me last year that she was diagnosed and I was so relieved that she found it at such an early, early stage,” she said.
“She found it at almost the earliest you can find it. She really got a gift by finding it so early that she doesn’t have to do all the treatment and all the things you have to do for years and years to come.”
She was aware of what Peet’s experience represented to others.
“She’s incredibly lucky and it’s another reminder that early detection saves lives.”
Peet, 54, revealed his diagnosis publicly for the first time in a deeply personal essay for The New Yorker on March 21, after keeping it private since 2025.
The play described an almost unimaginably difficult period in her life when she received her cancer diagnosis while both her parents were in hospice care on opposite coasts at the same time.
When her sister called to say their father was dying, Peet flew to New York but didn’t make it in time.
“I didn’t make it until my father took his last breath, but I did get to see his body before it was taken from his apartment,” she wrote.
“As soon as my father’s body was out of sight, I was free to panic about my cancer again.”
Peet received his first clear scan in January. Days later, her mother, who had Parkinson’s disease, died in hospice with her daughter by her side.
IN Your friends and neighborsPeet plays therapist Mel Cooper and Munn plays her friend and neighbor Sam Levitt.
New episodes are now streaming on Apple TV+.
