Lily Tomlin is aware of {that a} remake of the comedy vintage 9 to five can be tough. In particular because the global she, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton parodied has modified such a lot. And that’s why a sequel by no means took place.
“We had one official crack at the script,” Tomlin mentioned in a Community interview. “The draft just didn’t work for us. We couldn’t really see the work world today [in the pages]. People work from home. They take gig work. They don’t even know their boss. They’re at home!” The trio ended up passing, with Parton telling Leisure This night that the ladies had “dropped that whole idea.”
“I don’t think we’re going to do the sequel,” she mentioned on the moment. “We never could get the script where it was enough different than the first one, and that one turned out so good.”
Jennifer Aniston is generating a reimagining of 9 to five, with a script via Oscar-winner Diablo Cody.
Tomlin had blended emotions about that information.
“I felt sort of the same way I felt about the musical. You know, part of you feels rejected. You think that character’s yours always. And you could reembody it.”
She added, “It’s going to be tough to make [the movie] happen. My sympathies are with Jennifer and her writer, Diablo, who is a good writer.”
Nearest day, Tomlin seems in Netflix’s Exceptional: A Comedy Revolution, a documentary that examines how she and alternative LGBTQ+ comedians sharpened their wit amid the try for equality, turning ache into humor and laughter into alternate.
“The world has opened up in being able to relate to gay people,” she says. “I feel [proud] I was a part of that. I just can’t think there are more people unlike us than there are people like us. And I don’t mean gay — I mean human.”
