Telling a toy story
Grace and Frankie, that Netflix show about saucy septuagenarians, is about to get saucier. When it starts streaming its third season on Friday, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin’s characters will try to open a business selling vibrators to older women.
Fonda, who turned 79 in December, visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday to promote the new season with proof she’s been doing thorough research for the plot.
“We tried all different kinds of vibrators,” she told the host. “Use it or lose it, right?”
Fonda tried to show one from the Grace and Frankie set to the giggling audience, prompting the host to protest, “I cannot show that. I cannot show that.” Fonda whipped it out anyway.
The two-time Academy Award winner also revealed she has a toy of her own back home.
“I have one that hangs around my neck and it looks like a beautiful piece of silver jewelry,” she said.
Grace and Frankie stars Fonda and Tomlin as longtime friends Grace Hanson and Frankie Bergstein, who discover their husbands have been having a two-decade affair with each other. After divorcing them, the two band together to reboot their lives — but tension is brewing between them as the third season kicks off.
Also in this run of episodes, their ex-husbands Sol (Sam Waterston) and Robert (Martin Sheen) have moved into a new home and are discussing retirement.
WHAT WOULD SAL DO?
Hallelujah! This homegrown comedy is finally debuting on CraveTV after originally being set to air on Super Channel in 2016. Hitting the streaming site on Friday, What Would Sal Do? centres on the titular slacker who discovers he’s the second coming of Christ and now must try to be a good person.
Dylan Taylor stars in the satiric comedy, with Jennifer Dale as his mom, the virgin Maria; Ryan McDonald as his best friend; and Scott Thompson as a priest.
“The thing about the show, for me, that was always attractive, was this idea of the second coming and what it would it really be like,” writer-creator Andrew De Angelis recently told The Sudbury Star.
“If we were going to do this and take this journey, how would someone really go about doing it? I wanted to make it just as grounded as I could. I didn’t want it to be a joke-heavy show. I wanted it to be real characters — they might be big characters, larger than life, but real nonetheless — in real situations, reacting in real ways.”
The series filmed its first eight episodes in Sudbury, Ont., and hails from the producers of CraveTV’s comedy Letterkenny. The show has already been nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards.