With Ladies experiencing a resurgence in recent years, followers of Zosia Mamet‘s character Shoshanna Shapiro have been hopeful that she would get her personal spinoff.
And now Ladies creator Lena Dunham is addressing that chance.
“I really like Shoshanna. I’m on document as saying she is my favourite lady,” Dunham mentioned on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, including that Shoshanna is the character that’s probably “going locations” out of the 4 foremost women.
Along with loving the character of Shoshanna, Dunham mentioned that it was “such a pleasure to observe Zosia be her.”
“So if there was, like, the best context for us to do it, I’d be fucking thrilled,” Dunham mentioned. “And likewise to do something together with her.”
Dunham defined that she and Mamet have jokingly “kicked round” concepts of the place Shoshanna could be in the present day. “She’d be so sensible at revisiting it, and I simply miss it and I miss her,” Dunham mentioned, stating that she could be “in” to do a derivative about Shoshanna.
Mamet has additionally expressed curiosity in revisiting the character in a derivative. “I’m attempting to get Lena to write down a Shosh spinoff,” Mamet mentioned when she appeared on the same podcast in January. “I’ve been, like, slowly engaged on her. We’ll see. She appears receptive.”
In the meantime, the thought of doing a Ladies follow-up has lengthy been of curiosity to Dunham. In a January 2022 cowl story, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Dunham had engaged in casual talks with HBO a couple of potential Ladies reboot, during which the characters had been older and wiser.
Although, she admitted it wasn’t the best time.
“All of us acknowledge it’s not time but,” she mentioned. “I need it to be at a second when the characters’ lives have actually modified.”
And HBO boss Casey Bloys added, “As pleased with the present as we’re, there aren’t any plans to deliver Ladies again. It’s nice to know new viewers will proceed to find the [original] collection.”
The penultimate episode of Ladies featured the shock that Shoshanna was engaged to a person neither Hannah (Dunham) or viewers had heard of.
“I keep in mind when that concept got here up, it was like, ‘How may she?’ Shoshanna’s been very mild this season, and it hasn’t been an accident,” Dunham informed THR on the time. “We love Zosia, and we wish her appearing all the time. But it surely has felt like she was going to be the character who made the breakaway first, and we wanted to elucidate what had occurred to her throughout that point.”
Dunham makes her return to TV with Netflix’s Too A lot, which she created and based mostly loosely on her real-life romance with husband Luis Felber, streaming Thursday.