Amanda Peet says parents compared her acting dreams to being a ‘hooker’

Amanda Peet’s parents weren’t impressed when she first told them she wanted to be an actor.

"I feel like they saw acting in the beginning similar to just ‘Oh, so you want to start modeling or you want to be a hooker,’" she told Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett on the "Smartless" podcast on Monday.

Her parents were "as far from the entertainment business as you could possibly be," Peet added, explaining that her father was a corporate lawyer and her mom was a social worker and psychotherapist.