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Lily Tomlin recalls taking charge as a kid when a door-to-door salesman duped her mother
In her acclaimed new film Grandma, Lily Tomlin’s character stands up for her granddaughter and for herself as they traipse across Los Angeles trying to get money for an abortion.
It wasn’t much of a stretch for the 75-year-old star to play someone unafraid of a confrontation – she’s been doing it all of her life.
Tomlin recalls a time when her mother felt forced to buy a vacuum cleaner for $300 from an aggressive door-to-door salesman.
The young Lily wasn’t having it. She called the salesman and demanded he return to their home and give her mother her money back.
‘I was all piss and vinegar,’ Tomlin tells Huffington Post. ‘I was just cursing him and telling him that if he didn’t come I would throw it in the street.’
The salesman returned, but with an attitude.
‘He finally came out and said, “Your mother bought that vacuum cleaner” and all this stuff. And I pitched it out off the stairs. I was forever doing stuff like that. I just railed against it,’ she recalls.
It’s just the way she was.
‘In the early years, my mother would have been more concerned about what the neighbors — or the relatives in the South — would think. I was a Detroit kid, a street kid, so I was kind of tough. I would stand up for myself.’
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