With Season 2 of Your Friends & Neighbors, Amanda Peet is enjoying what comes with playing her well-rounded character Mel Cooper.

The actress admitted “it is really nice” having series creator and showrunner Jonathan Tropper write her sex scenes at age 54, as well as scenes about the experience of perimenopause, with which she’s familiar.

“Thank goodness it’s less taboo to talk about now,” she told Glamour. “I’m 54, so I’m dealing with all of that shit, and it’s pretty hellish. It was actually really fun—and very real—that Jonathan Tropper put it into Mel’s storyline. We saw her keying that random car last season, and God knows I’ve wanted to key a lot of cars in the last three years. People seemed to be really into that part of Mel, so we were really into the idea that she has a lot of rage.”

Peet added, “A lot of people are going into more depth about it, so it’s easier to understand. People are believing women a little bit more about what perimenopause is like, so I think Tropper was interested in making it funny and a little bit dangerous and fucked up, which are all really fun things to play.”

In Season 2 of the Apple TV+ series, Mel’s first-date sex in the front seat of a car is cut short when she suffers vaginal dryness, a symptom of perimenopause.

“I have to say, as a 54-year-old woman, it is really nice that my boss writes me sex scenes and he writes about menopause. Both,” said Peet.

With new episodes available to stream on Fridays, Season 2 of Your Friends & Neighbors reunites Peet with Jon Hamm, Olivia Munn, Lena Hall and Aimee Carrero, with James Marsden joining the sophomore season.