Tom Brady, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin Star in Football Road Trip Movie – Lily ‘Saves the Day’ Teaser
Tom Brady will join Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the football road trip film 80 for Brady, and Fonda and Tomlin recently spilled a few details.
During a discussion about fair wages for workers, Fonda and Tomlin teased the film, revealing that Tomlin ends up saving the day. 80 for Brady is about four New England Patriot fans who road trip to Super Bowl LI in 2017 searching for their hero – Tom Brady. Rounding out the cast of friends are Sally Field and Rita Moreno.
Jane Fonda: Lily ‘saves the day’
Tomlin set the scene for the film. “There are just four ladies who are great friends and, by a series of circumstances, they began to watch football religiously,” Tomlin described during the virtual discussion.
“This is set in Boston in the early 2000s,” she continued. “And they’re totally devoted Patriots fans now. They get the idea to go to Houston for the 2017 Super Bowl that was considered by many to be the greatest football game of all time. And so it’s about that. It’s about them getting themselves together.”
Fonda added, “And the adventures they have once they’re there. Lily won’t say this, but she’s actually the one that saves the day.”
’80 for Brady’ is a true story
Fonda also teased, “A lot of it is a true story.”
“Oh, I wish you could see the woman that it was based on!” Tomlin added. “And we have a video of Tom Brady calling her and telling her they were going to make the movie about her and her friends. And she’s so great and so excited, so real. So excited.”
Tomlin said, “I wish that’s how the world was.”
The Hollywood Reporter shared that Kyle Marvin will direct, and Brady, who recently retired from football, is the producer. Production begins in Boston in spring 2022. Brady recently retired from football and teased more to come. Rita Moreno and Sall Field round out the cast alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Moreno posted on Instagram: “Next up, the girls and I take a trip to the #SuperBowl.”
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin have a decades long friendship
80 for Brady joins the long list of projects Tomlin and Fonda have collaborated on since meeting on the set of 9 to 5 in 1980. Tomlin said she admired Fonda since seeing her in the 1971 film Klute. “I’ve been a fan of hers since before I met her,” she told The Washington Post. “I had a Klute hairdo when she did Klute.”
“I met her when she came backstage when I was doing Appearing Nitely at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A.,” Tomlin continued. “That was about ’77 or ’78. Next thing I knew, she asked me to be in 9 to 5. We’ve been friends ever since. We’re friends because I just love her. I know Jane has my back whenever she can.”
Fonda recalled becoming fast friends with Tomlin while working on 9 to 5. “What can I say, I was smitten, and I said, ‘I don’t want to make a movie about secretaries unless she’s in it,'” Fonda recalled about Tomlin on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2017.
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