June Diane Raphael of GRACE AND FRANKIE makes this TVWriter™ minion feel…well, kinda terrible. She acts! She writes! She looks (and sounds) like Karen McCullah! While all I can manage to accomplish to wake up each morning. There oughtta be a law, you know?
by Patti Greco
The new Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie stars Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda as 70-something frenemies whose husbands (played by Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen, respectively) left their wives for each other. It’s a happy coming-out story on the one hand; a sad story of loss on the other. June Diane Raphael plays Brianna, the tell-it-like-it-is daughter of the wealthy, uptight Fonda-Sheen family. “She’s a nice window into what the audience might be thinking,” Raphael said on a visit to Cosmopolitan.com’s HQ this week. “She brings up a great point: This would be a different conversation if it were a woman [with whom her dad cheated]. We wouldn’t be celebrating and having dinner together — not a week later.”
Cosmopolitan.com spoke to Raphael — whom you might also know from her podcast How Did This Get Made with husband Paul Scheer or from her last movie, Ass Backwards, with writing partner Casey Wilson — about her new show, the limited roles for women in Hollywood, and her first job out of college: writing Bride Wars.