Last year at the Emmy Awards the cast of the 1980 film 9 to 5 reunited to present an award. Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda starred in the comedy film about three women who get even with their company’s autocratic boss.
Now Jane Fonda says the trio are getting ready to film a sequel, nearly forty years after the original film was released.
The Hollywood Reporter shared that star Jane Fonda has revealed some details about the upcoming project.
“My role is as an executive producer, and I’m working with the writers, with Lily, and talking to the writers,” Fonda told reporters on Wednesday morning at an event promoting the upcoming HBO documentary about her life. “Right now, Dolly, Lily and I are all intending to be in it.”
Asked if she thought sexual harrassement, one of the key themes of the original film was as bad today as it was in the 1980’s Fonda said things were definitely improving.
“I do think sexual harassment will tend to drop,” she said, smiling, “Guys are scared.”
The original film was a huge success when it was first released, and it spawned a short lived TV series. Later it became a Broadway musical starring Allison Janney, Megan Hilty and Stephanie J Block.
Tomlin, Parton and Fonda have remained friends since they filmed the movie, Tomlin and Fonda currently star in the TV series Grace and Frankie.
OIP Staff
