Jane Fonda Talks Book Club Sequel

From driving boats in Venice to touchdown in Tuscany in a helicopter, “E book Membership: The Subsequent Chapter” star Jane Fonda had fairly the journey in Italy with Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen. 

Her favourite reminiscence there? “After we went to see the Sistine Chapel at night time, and there was no person else there,” Fonda instructed Selection on the New York premiere on Monday night time. “And we had the entire ceiling defined to us by a terrific information. That was an actual deal with.” 

Though the sequel was filmed practically 5 years after the unique, Fonda by no means misplaced contact along with her “E book Membership” co-stars. 

“We’ve seen one another ever since we made the primary film,” Fonda stated. “We go to one another’s homes for dinner, we textual content one another, we e mail one another, we do Zoom collectively. It’s not like we had been aside after which out of the blue reunited.” 

Based mostly on characters by Invoice Holderman and Erin Simms, “E book Membership: The Subsequent Chapter” follows 4 aged mates as they take their ebook membership to Italy. Along with Fonda, Keaton, Steenburgen and Bergen, the rom-com stars Don Johnson, Andy Garcia, Craig T. Nelson, Giancarlo Giannini, Hugh Quarshie, Vincent Rotta, Giampiero Judica, Grace Really and Giovanni Esposito. 

“The concept for Italy got here earlier than the primary film even got here out, and it was Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Jane Fonda and Erin on a airplane saying, ‘We gotta do a sequel. And you realize what could be enjoyable? Let’s go to Italy,’” director Holderman defined. “In order that was the foundational ingredient for your complete factor.”

Requested the place the 4 girls ought to journey subsequent for a possible third installment, Really instructed Selection, “Possibly in a Scandinavian nation. I really feel such as you don’t see sufficient touring to Scandinavia, you realize? Iceland or one thing like that.” 

“Candice retains telling us we’re going to Burning Man for at the very least a part of it,” Holderman stated jokingly. “However I’m gonna put a pitch in for Paris as a result of I believe that may be actually enjoyable.”

“E book Membership: The Subsequent Chapter” premieres in theaters Could 12.