Marisa Tomei: "I’m snake bit" to star in a sitcom after playing Edith Bunker - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 06-24-2019, 08:26 PM

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/mar...ne-1203251163/

The Oscar-winning actress, whose last sitcom role was on A Different World in the late 1980s, wants to star in a TV comedy series following her experience on ABC's Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons special. “I’ve wanted to do a show for a while because I want to be in one place for a bit of time,” Tomei tells Variety‘s My Favorite Episode podcast. “Part of it is just a different phase of life. After this All in the Family live thing, I’m snake bit. I was telling my agents, I really want to do a sitcom! And they were like, no you don’t want to do sitcoms, nobody wants to do sitcoms. But I really want to do a sitcom!" Tomei also recalls Norman Lear personally called her to play Edith Bunker, and reminding her that they met 30 years ago to discuss doing a TV project together. "So in this crazy way, Norman Lear discovered me!” she says.

BuddyHinton · 07-29-2020, 07:58 AM

Just. Awful.

All of it.

06-24-2019, 08:26 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,434	Marisa Tomei: "I’m snake bit" to star in a sitcom after playing Edith Bunker https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/mar...ne-1203251163/ The Oscar-winning actress, whose last sitcom role was on A Different World in the late 1980s, wants to star in a TV comedy series following her experience on ABC's Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons special. “I’ve wanted to do a show for a while because I want to be in one place for a bit of time,” Tomei tells Variety‘s My Favorite Episode podcast. “Part of it is just a different phase of life. After this All in the Family live thing, I’m snake bit. I was telling my agents, I really want to do a sitcom! And they were like, no you don’t want to do sitcoms, nobody wants to do sitcoms. But I really want to do a sitcom!" Tomei also recalls Norman Lear personally called her to play Edith Bunker, and reminding her that they met 30 years ago to discuss doing a TV project together. "So in this crazy way, Norman Lear discovered me!” she says.

07-29-2020, 07:58 AM	#2
BuddyHinton Member Frequent Poster Join Date: May 31, 2006 Location: CA Posts: 441	Just. Awful. All of it.