Lily Tomlin Honors Dabney Colman After His Death with ‘9 to 5’ Scene

Lily Tomlin is paying tribute to her late costar Dabney Coleman.

The actress, 84, honored Coleman following his death with a poignant post on social media on Friday, May 17.

“We just loved him,” Tomlin wrote on X (formerly Twitter) of Coleman, who died on May 16.

Alongside her fond words, Tomlin shared a photo of herself and Coleman in the 1980 classic 9 to 5, in which she was dressed as Disney’s Snow White in character as Violet Newstead beside a startled-looking Coleman sitting in a chair as her hateful boss, Franklin Hart Jr.

Coleman starred alongside Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton in 9 to 5. He worked a second time with Tomlin over a decade later in the 1993 film The Beverly Hillbillies. 

The late actor previously told Vulture of his experience working on 9 to 5,…