Jane Lynch joins NBC pilot in role originally written for a man
According to Deadline, Jane Lynch has joined the cast of the NBC comedy pilot Relatively Happy, playing a character who was originally written as a boorish, womanizing man. Now, thanks to Lynch getting cast, the character will be “a fast-living, Scotch-drinking, three-piece-suit-wearing, womanizing divorce attorney” who just happens to be a woman. In a statement, the creators said that they realized “the best person for the job was Jane Lynch,” so they tweaked the character’s first name and kept pretty much everything else the same.