Olivia Munn spoke about herself with emotion Your friends and neighbors Co-star Amanda Peet’s breast cancer diagnosis, urging fans to get checked early after Peet’s own experience showed how important timing can be.
Talk to PEOPLE While promoting the second season of their Apple TV+ series, Munn, 45, herself a breast cancer survivor, having been diagnosed in 2023, said she was relieved when Peet confided in her last year.
“She told me last year that she had been diagnosed, and I was so relieved that she found out at such an early stage,” she said.
“She found it almost as early as possible. She really was given the gift of finding it so early that she doesn’t have to do all the treatments and all the things that you have to do for years and years to come.”
She clearly understood what Peet’s experience meant to others.
“She is incredibly lucky and this reminds us once again that early detection saves lives.”
Peet, 54, publicly revealed his diagnosis for the first time in a deeply personal essay for the New Yorker on March 21, after keeping it private since 2025.
The article described an almost unimaginably difficult time in her life, when she received her cancer diagnosis while both of her parents were simultaneously in hospice care on opposite coasts.
When his sister called to tell him that their father was about to die, Peet flew to New York but did not arrive in time.
“I didn’t survive before my father took his last breath, but I was able to see his body before it was taken from his apartment,” she wrote.
“As soon as my father’s dead body was out of sight, I was able to panic about my cancer again.”
Peet received his first clear scan in January. A few days later, her mother, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, died in hospice with her daughter by her side.
In Your friends and neighborsPeet plays therapist Mel Cooper and Munn plays his friend and neighbor Sam Levitt.
New episodes are now streaming on Apple TV+.
