'The movie was terribly funny when I read it. Full of surprises and little crooked turns,' Lily Tomlin tells the Parting Shot about her new film 'Moving On.'
What excited me first was I was going to work with Paul again. I'd already done two movies with him. He told me that he'd writtenfor me, especially. So I guess our path was sealed at that. One day, I was sitting on set a couple of years before the dilemma with COVID, and I [told Jane], 'I'm going to call Paul and ask him to write a movie for us.' And sure enough, he did. I thought the movie was terribly funny when I read it. Full of surprises and little crooked turns.
Only you and Jane Fonda can call up a big director like Paul Weitz and ask him to write a movie for you. I don't know if that's true or not. Maybe it is. I was really taking advantage of just knowing him. That's not my nature to do that. But I mean, his mother, Susan Kohner, was in. When I was a young girl, I went to see it with my mother. And my mother was all prepared for a big cry. She said,"All I know, this movie's gonna be so good." And she opened her purse and had three washcloths. I got to share [that story] with him when I met him for the first time.
Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda attend the Los Angeles premiere screening of Paramount Pictures'"80 for Brady" at Regency Village Theatre on January 31, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. What do you think it is about your collaborations with Jane Fonda that just works?Klutehairdo, never expecting to meet her or anything like that. Then, one night, she came to see me do. She'd always say,"Oh, you've got to take a leap of faith." That was her byword in those days.
But that one is [always] working on really hard things. Like climate change. I went to her house one day, and she said, I'm going to move to D.C.—this is during—I'm going to move to D.C. and I've got to call Ted Sarandos [Chief Executive Officer of Netflix] right now. I'm going to ask him to delayfor a year. And I knew that Ted would never do that. This is in our second or third season, we were a big hit on. And sure enough, he not only did it but [she] threw herself into it.
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