Grace and Frankie

Being her first experience as a lead actress on a TV show, Jane Fonda took acting lessons after noticing she was having a hard time playing a character so sustained in time.

It was Marta Kaufman's daughter idea to have Robert and Sol gay and leaving Grace and Frankie to be together as the starting point to the show.

Despite the potentially sensitive dialogue surrounding same sex marriage, Lily Tomlin said in an interview on NPR's Fresh Air that the most difficult line for her was when she had to denigrate substitute teachers.