Icon sex symbol Kathleen Turner is joining Showtime's Californication for a recurring arc during the dramedy's upcoming third season, sources confirm to me exclusively.

Turner will play the ball-breaking, foul-mouthed, outrageous boss of Evan Handler's literary agent. She's Ari Gold without the poison sushi allergy penis!

A Showtime rep declined to comment, but Turner's spokesperson, Alan Nierob, confirmed that the Oscar-nominated actress would be spending three months in Los Angeles shooting the role.

Season three of Californication is slated to debut next fall.

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In 2009, Turner had a recurring role on the Showtime comedy, Californication. She played a high powered Hollywood talent agency executive with an over-active sexual appetite and an outrageously oversized personality. Turner said she loved playing the gonzo character:

I like doing outrageous things. I seem to be sort of making speciality of it, being this crazy middle aged woman. When I’m doing something, I don’t think about what other people are going to think about it. Just doing it is where I get my kicks. Then of course, to see it with other people, you realize how out there it is.

Turner said she was grateful to be able to play such a meaty role as a middle-aged actress. She was critical of Hollywood’s inability to write roles for women:

If you don’t have stage training, you’re truly limited. They don’t write good roles for women. If you’re not immediately identifiable as the ingénue or sex symbol, they don’t know what to write. Write a character? I mean, a character? Who has thoughts and feelings and opinions? They don’t know how to do it.