Jane Fondais heading back to her day job.
TheBook Clubstar, 80, revealed she and former9 to 5costarsDolly PartonandLily Tomlinwere onboard to star in the sequel of their 1980 classic.
“My involvement is an executive producer and together with Lily, we’re working with the writers,” Fonda told reporters at a Television Critics Association press tour for an HBO documentary on her life on Wednesday.
“Right now, Dolly, Lily and I are all intending to be in it,” she said.
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“Plus with social media, the Internet, you can be spied on very easily,” she added. “I do think sexual harassment will tend to drop because guys are scared.”
The actresses have kept the film alive in recent years. At the 2017Emmy Awards, the trio presented the award for best supporting actor in a limited series or movie together — though they used their entrance speech to make a dig at President Donald Trump.
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Parton, meanwhile, simply said she was excited to be there with her former costars, noting that she was just there to “have fun.”
“Personally, I have been waiting for a9 to 5reunion ever since we did the first one,” she said, joking about a plot point in the last season of Tomlin and Fonda’s show. “I’m just hoping that I’m going to get one of thoseGrace and Frankievibrators in my swag bag tonight.”
At Tomlin’s lifetime achievement award ceremony in early 2017, Partson addressed those who were hoping for a9 to 5sequel, saying, “People have wanted another9 to 5, but I think we’d have to call it 95!”
source: people.com
