For years, Women followers have been begging Lena Dunham to create — and even trace at — a possible spinoff based mostly on the beloved character Shoshanna Shapiro. Years later, the author, director and actress has lastly revealed the probability of that want really coming to fruition.
Dunham, 39, admitted that Shoshanna, performed by Zosia Mamet, was the “greatest character” on Women and “essentially the most enlightened” throughout an look on the “Not Skinny However Not Fats” podcast on Tuesday, July 8.
Host Amanda Hirsch identified that Mamet, 37, had beforehand been on the podcast and expressed curiosity in the opportunity of a Women spinoff that includes her character. She’s not the one one holding out hope that it’d occur sometime.
“Hear, I really like Shoshannah. I’m on document and [will] say she is my favourite woman. … I feel she is the one who’s going locations,” Dunham mirrored. “Additionally, it’s simply such a pleasure to observe Zosia be her, so if it was like the precise context for us to do it, I’d be f***ing thrilled and in addition to do something along with her.”
She admitted that the thought of a derivative has been “kicked round,” and she or he has thought of the place the Women characters “can be now.”
“She can be so good at revisiting it, and I simply miss it, and I miss her,” Dunham stated about Mamet probably portraying Shoshanna once more. “I’m in.”
Dunham additionally dished on the place the characters can be at present in a subsequent interview with Variety on Tuesday.
“Shoshanna was married to, then divorced from, the mayor of New York Metropolis, and she or he runs an athleisure startup that’s zero-waste,” Dunham informed the outlet of her imaginative and prescient. “Marnie — it’s third marriage. She nonetheless sings, however I feel Marnie actually must take it to intercourse and love addicts nameless.”
“Jessa is unvaccinated and lives on a ship in Croatia,” she continued. “Adam is a cult theater actor, and he’s in all probability residing in Berlin, and Ray remains to be on metropolis council and working his espresso store and doing higher than anybody. Elijah is the fourth lead on a sitcom, making a superb sum of money and nonetheless in search of love in all of the mistaken locations.”
Dunham nearly forgot to dream up a future for the controversial character she portrayed in Women, Hannah Horvath.
“Oh my God, I forgot about her!” she stated. “She teaches at Bard and loves elevating her son. She in all probability has a girlfriend who’s, like, a chef. And she or he’s much less obsessive about being well-known. That’s the place I really feel that she would land.”
Women ran for six seasons on HBO, with its collection finale airing in April 2017. Within the present’s remaining episode, Marnie, performed by Allison Williams, goes to stay with pregnant Hannah in her home upstate. 5 months later, Hannah has given beginning to a child boy named Grover and is scuffling with breast-feeding. Hannah’s mother additionally arrives to lend a serving to hand.
Hannah grows aggravated with Marnie, who tries to assist her get Grover to latch and storms off in the midst of the evening. Whereas on her stroll within the darkness, Hannah runs right into a teen woman who’s working away from dwelling. After reasoning with the woman, she tells her to return dwelling and has a serious revelation about parenting — realizing {that a} mother or father will attempt to do what’s greatest for his or her youngster. When she returns dwelling, she and Marnie make up and she or he is ready to get Grover to latch, as she breastfeeds him.