Lena Dunham is taking a step away from a number of initiatives — together with her upcoming Netflix sequence Too A lot — to keep away from undesirable commentary on her physique.
“I used to be not prepared to have one other expertise like what I’d skilled round Women at this level in my life,” Dunham, 38, stated in a profile with The New Yorker revealed on Tuesday, July 9. “Bodily, I used to be simply not up for having my physique dissected once more. It was a tough selection.”
Dunham, who co-created Too A lot along with her husband, Luis Felber, clarified that it wasn’t a tough choice to forged Megan Stalter because the lead function since she knew she “wished” her from the beginning. Nevertheless, Dunham confessed that after going through public scrutiny over her look whereas starring on her hit present, Women, which aired for six seasons on HBO, that she didn’t need to put herself entrance and middle.
“I used to assume that profitable meant you simply preserve doing it and also you don’t care what anyone thinks,” she admitted. “I forgot that profitable is definitely simply defending your self and doing what it’s worthwhile to do to maintain making work.”
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Whereas Dunham is staying on because the creator and govt producer, she added that she knew Stalter was excellent for the function and as she was “impressed” by her earlier work.
“She’s unbelievable; I believe persons are going to be so blown away. We all know how humorous she is. However, then, when she enters a dramatic scene, you’re, like, ‘Oh, we received a little bit Meryl Streep on our palms!’” she gushed. “I used to be considering quite a bit about, like, What’s it that enables girls to be sophisticated on TV and nonetheless be embraced and seen and understood? There’s an openness to Meg’s presence that I believe goes a great distance. She has regardless of the reverse of resting bitch face is. She has resting angel face.”
Along with stepping away from the TV display, Dunham revealed she can be now not concerned within the Polly Pocket which is about to star Lily Collins.
“I’m not going to make the Polly Pocket film. I wrote a script, and I used to be engaged on it for 3 years,” she stated to the outlet. “However I bear in mind somebody as soon as stated to me about Nancy Meyers: the factor that’s essentially the most wonderful about her is that the film she makes or the film she could be making with or with out a studio, with or with out notes — that in some way her style manages to intersect completely with what the world needs. What a f—king reward that’s.”
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Dunham shared that whereas Greta Gerwig had an “unimaginable” accomplishment with the Barbie film, she didn’t see her involvement in Polly Pocket, which can be an iconic Mattel model, having the identical traction.
“I felt like, until I can do it that method, I’m not going to do it. I don’t assume I’ve that in me,” she confessed. “I really feel like the following film I make must really feel like a film that I completely need to make. Nobody however me might make it. And I did assume different individuals might make Polly Pocket.”
A Polly Pocket film was formally introduced in July 2023 following the success of Barbie. Dunham, who had been hooked up to the challenge since 2021, was set to put in writing and direct the movie whereas Collins would star and produce the challenge.
