Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen on Their Roman Holiday
metroweekly.comBook Club: The Next Chapter stars Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen, who chatted with Metro Weekly about the new sequel to their 2018 hit comedy, written and directed by Bill Holderman.The screen legends were missing their girl Diane Keaton, who rounds out the quartet portraying four longtime best friends, who, this time out, jet off to Italy for a bachelorette adventure.
Yet they still basked in the glow of their collective thrilling adventure shooting the film throughout Rome, Venice, and Tuscany.The gorgeous Italian scenery, and local color — like homegrown legend Giancarlo Giannini, featured in a supporting role — proved enchanting offscreen as well as in the film.“It was never stressful because you were always in a gondola, sort of coasting along,” recalls Bergen. “It was such a privilege.
We stayed in a beautiful hotel with a gorgeous, towering lobby. Then at night, we’d come home and we’d all sit in the bar and there would be a long table with, like 20 places, all with Aperol Spritzes on the table, like hundreds of glasses of Aperol Spritzes.
There was never a moment of stress on the movie.”“Well,” interjects Fonda, “the 104-degree heat was a little stressful.”“She was wearing wool,” Bergen adds.“But we managed,” says Fonda. “We had a good time making the movie, and a good time in real life when we were not shooting the movie.”In fact, the co-stars have forged a close friendship, which, as Steenburgen points out, was a major reason they all returned for the sequel, along with their returning cast of silver foxes Don Johnson, Andy Garcia, and Craig T.
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