Amanda Peet Details Her ‘Rough’ Experience Filming Her Guest Spot on Seinfeld

Peet reveals she "was really scared" while filming the sitcom

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Amanda Peet recalls guest appearance on Seinfeld. Credit :

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  • On a recent episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Amanda Peet revealed that she "was really scared" during her Seinfeld guest appearance
  • Peet played a waitress who went out with Jerry Seinfeld in the sitcom
  • Elizabeth Banks, who was also on WWHL alongside Peet, shared a ghost encounter she had on Fred Claus

Amanda Peet is speaking candidly about her guest appearance on Seinfeld .

The Your Neighbors and Friends actress, 53, appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Thursday, May 23, where she gave a little insight into her Seinfeld guest appearance. 

The actress, alongside co-guest Elizabeth Banks, revisited the many shows she’s played a part in over the years in a spin-the-wheel game titled “Spill the IMDb Tea.”

When the wheel landed on Seinfeld, the Saving Silverman actress quickly showed a pained expression.

"You played a waitress that went out with Jerry,” the host said about the episode Peet guest-starred in. “How did the episode turn out?”

Amanda Peet in Seinfeld
Amanda Peet in Seinfeld.

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“Yeah I know,” Peet said while rolling her eyes and asking whether or not she was rating the episode or her personal experience.

"That was a rough one for me. I had a lot of stage fright. I’m going to give it like a 5. I was really scared," Peet said before giving a hearty laugh. 

Banks, 51, had her own spooky tea to dish when asked about her role in Fred Claus. Banks disclosed that she had a run in with a ghost while filming the movie in London.

“Yes, I have [seen a ghost],” the Pitch Perfect actress told Cohen after he asked if she’d ever had a paranormal encounter. “At Pinewood Studios outside London. Yes, I did!"

If that wasn’t scary enough, Banks said the ghost touched her!

"She grabbed me and everything!” Banks recalled of her encounter with the spirit.

The ghost appeared to her while she was alone on set, Banks told Cohen and Peet.

“I had to be like, ‘I see you, I get it. You don’t want me to sit in this bed. I will not do it anymore!' " Banks recalled of the spooky encounter. “And I never went in that corner of the room ever again."

The Hunger Games actress rated her overall experience filming Fred Claus as a 4.85 out of 10, thanks to her run-in with the spirit.

"I loved living in London, but I met a ghost," she said, weighing the pros and cons of the film.  

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