Jane Fonda needed therapy, acting coach for Netflix show
BEVERLY HILLS (AP) — Jane Fonda says the challenges of episodic television made her seek counseling.
The 78-year-old actress co-stars with Lily Tomlin in the Netflix series “Grace and Frankie.” The show’s second season premiered last week, and it has been renewed for a third.
But that first season was a doozy, Fonda said Saturday at a Netflix luncheon celebrating the “rebels and rule breakers” behind its hit shows.
“I didn’t realize what a completely different animal episodic television is. It was really hard for me the first season. I kind of fell apart,” said the actress, agelessly fashionable in a Zuhair Murad floral suit. “So I went back into therapy, and I got an acting coach.”
When the audience at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel laughed, Fonda responded: “No, it’s true! And I’m proud of that at my age.”