In addition to the many potentially lucrative television projects being thrown at Tom Brady since his “retirement,” one project he said yes to is a new film with an all-star cast. Brady will produce, with his company 199 Productions, a Paramount film called “80 for Brady,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. He’ll also appear in the film, probably as himself — a role he’s played onscreen a few times before. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field star as real-life-inspired, 80-something New England Patriots fans who take a road trip to the 2017 Super Bowl.
Though Brady and Fonda haven’t met IRL yet, Brady sent the Hollywood icon a bouquet of flowers as a way of starting a budding friendship with the star. (See what we did there?) “He sent me a humongous thing of orchids because I had my shoulder replaced,” Fonda told People when she co-hosted with Tomlin at the latest Lo Máximo Awards fundraiser for Homeboy Industries on March 12. “I think it’s going to last forever … the shoulder and the orchids.”
Tomlin, who appears with Fonda in “Grace and Frankie,” as well as in their brilliant 1980 comedy, “9 to 5,” said Brady “phoned [Fonda] to tell her he was trying to make a movie about them,” calling it “just really delightful to see.” “It was wonderful … we look like your typical Tom Brady fan.” She also joked about wanting her own flowers: “I’m gonna get my shoulder replaced so he’ll send me some.”
