Robin Tunney, 46, gets sent scripts to play grandmothers

First of all, I love the new show The Fix. It’s trashy good and it leans into it without going overboard or taking itself too seriously. It’s co-created by Marcia Clark and has some commonalities with her unsuccessful prosecution of OJ Simpson. It features a prosecutor, Maya Travis, returning to LA after the girlfriend of actor Sevvy Johnson, who was exonerated of his wife’s murder 11 years ago, turns up dead. Maya was the original prosecutor, there’s a corrupt lawyer representing Sevvy, and there are so many great twists and turns. There is a wish fulfillment element to it, but it’s still awesome. Everyone I’ve told to watch this has loved it. We still don’t know who the murderer is either, but my mom and I have a theory I’m not going to post here because of spoilers.

Robin Tunney stars and I assumed she was ten years younger because she just looks great and not too filled or Botoxed. She’s my age though at 46. On Busy Tonight she said she gets sent scripts for grandmother roles because she’s over 40. I can’t imagine that! She also said that it’s nice to work on a show created by women where they make an older woman sexy and desirable.

[Maya is] a middle-aged woman who a lot of men want to sleep with… she’s vibrant. After I did The Mentalist I started getting these scripts [including one] for a grandma. And they’d be like ‘well you’re over 40 it’s kinda the same thing. I played Finn Wittrock’s mother in a movie and he’s like 37 or something. [Ed note: he’s 34 but still.]

I finally found a show created by women and they decided you can be 45 and men still want you.

Hollywood it’s a crazy thing they try to do with women. They put you in a box.

After that Robin told a story about the two other child actors in Chicago that she competed with when they were growing up and how she’s doing better than both of them. Busy said “I love a bitch that holds a grudge.” And you wonder why I like Busy! Also Robin said she played the hooker that Corky on Life Goes On lost his virginity to. (True story, I dated the son of the creator of that show.) Plus she was in Encino Man (loved that movie). She said that she had to borrow $60 from her neighbor Joe in 1991 for gas to go to that audition because she was so broke. Busy tracked Joe down and the brought him on the show! Joe moved to NY and he’s a playwright. Busy paid him back for Robin. You can see that clip here it’s so fun.

As for Robin’s story, the more I hear from actors, the more insane that industry sounds. This story reminds me of Amy Schumer’s “last f’kable day” skit, which is funny and sad at the same time. I just watched it again and cracked up. I’m glad there are more shows being created and run by women. That seems to be more the case on TV than in cinema. Also watch The Fix you won’t regret it!

Here’s the part of Robin’s interview where she talks about being typecast for being over 40:

Photos credit: WENN

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