Amanda Peet knew making an erotic thriller in 2023 would be complicated when she accepted a role in the television adaptation of Fatal Attraction.
The limited series reimagines the steamy-scary 1987 hit, in which a married man and his family are tormented by a troubled woman after a one-night stand. But this depiction conveys more empathy for its femme fatale Alex and harsher consequences for its male protagonist, Dan. Peet plays Dan’s wife, Beth.
This modern take tries to “subtly upend the Madonna-whore trope that’s in the original movie, where there’s this lovely housewife, homemaker, and then this sex-crazed psycho bunny boiler,” Peet said in
