Lily Tomlin

F LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE, THEN LILY TOMLIN IS GETTING all the revenge, especially in her new film (March 17). She and Jane Fonda team up once again to get retribution—the murderous kind—against a widower who wronged them. “What excited me first was I(2015) and(2013). “I was sitting on set a couple of years before COVID, and I [told Jane], ‘I’m going to call Paul and ask him to write a movie for us.’” You’re clearly a powerhouse when you can ask a director for a movie, although Tomlin says it’s “not in my nature to do that...I was really taking advantage of just knowing him.” And getting to work with Fonda is still exciting for Tomlin, who says she’s been a fan since (1971). “I cut my hair in a hairdo, never expecting to meet her.” Even though Tomlin isn’t a vengeful person like her new character, she says every character has “some connection to the real you.” “I fall in love with the person first in some way.”