Four longtime friends head to the Super Bowl and misadventures ensue in the comedy “80 for Brady,” starring Jane Fonda alongside Lily Tomlin, Sally Field and Rita Moreno. It’s one of several recent projects for Fonda that centers on meaningful friendships among women, from the long-running Netflix series “Grace and Frankie” to the upcoming sequel to “Book Club,” which comes out in May.
“It’s not intentional,” Fonda said of this throughline, just a happy turn of events. “Friendships are very important to me. In fact, friendships are very important to human beings. We are an animal that needs relationships. We need to be touched and hugged and loved and not feel alone. And fortunately, the women that I’m working with, both in ‘80 for Brady’ and ‘Book Club: The Next Chapter,’ they both have four women in them and all those women are friends of mine. I got really lucky.”
Fonda’s career spans six decades, her winning two Oscars along the way for “Klute” in 1971 and “Coming Home” in 1978. It’s a resume filled with iconic titles, from “Barefoot in the Park” to “Barbarella” to “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” to “The China Syndrome” to “9 to 5.”
