Eight years after Women ended, Lena Dunham is returning to the small display screen with Netflix‘s Too A lot.
The Golden Globe winner just lately defined why she took an “intentional break” from performing and public life after dealing with backlash round a number of controversies involving her breakout HBO comedy-drama, which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017.
“I didn’t actually perceive how one can distinguish between what was and wasn’t obligatory for the general public. I felt confused about how I used to be supposed to reply,” she instructed The Instances. “I believed if I clarify correctly who I’m, or give a glimpse of who I’m, individuals are going to have a special notion of me, that we’d be pals. However nobody cares — and that’s nice.”
Dunham added, “I at all times joke that I would like a T-shirt that claims, ‘I survived New York media in 2012 and all I received was this awful T-shirt.’ And all I received was this awful PTSD.”
Along with criticism across the present’s lack of variety and different controversies, Dunham confronted backlash for her help of sequence author/govt producer Murray Miller after actress Aurora Perrineau accused him of sexual assault in 2017.
Co-creator and star Lena Dunham on the set of Netflix’s ‘Too A lot’
Going to rehab for an dependancy to prescription anxiousness remedy, Dunham “felt like all of the maturing and altering that had been stored at bay by the expertise of being in that cocoon of the present was all of the sudden occurring at a pace that was overwhelming. It was a painful metamorphosis. I undoubtedly took an intentional break [from public life].”
Premiering July 10 on Netflix, Too A lot stars Meg Stalter as New Yorker Jessica, who strikes to London after a disastrous breakup and sparks a romance with musician Felix (Will Sharpe). Co-created by Dunham and husband Luis Felber, the Women alum performs Jessica’s older sister, who has equally retreated from public life after a messy divorce despatched her transferring again in with their mother.
Dunham initially opted to not seem within the sequence, explaining she “was not prepared to have one other expertise like what I’d skilled round Women at this level in my life” with the physique shaming she confronted on the present. “Bodily, I used to be simply not up for having my physique dissected once more,” she instructed The New Yorker final July.
