Lena Dunham mentioned she now understands why the dearth of range on her hit HBO present Women was “actually disappointing to folks.”
The approaching-of-age comedy-drama, which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017, was beforehand criticized for its characters not precisely representing New York Metropolis’s numerous inhabitants. The creator and star defended the sequence in 2012, saying she’s “half-Jew, half-WASP” and wished to keep away from “tokenism in casting.”
Greater than a decade after Women first premiered, Dunham just lately mirrored on the present, telling The Independent, “I believe one of many profound points round Women was that there was so little actual property for girls in tv that when you had a present referred to as Women, which is such a monolithic identify, it sounds prefer it’s describing all the ladies in all of the locations. And so if it’s not reflecting a large number of experiences, I perceive how that might be actually disappointing to folks.”
Women, which additionally starred Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Adam Driver, Zosia Mamet and Alex Karpovsky, adopted the lives of a gaggle of younger ladies of their early twenties as they navigated life, love and careers in New York Metropolis.
Dunham added that she appreciated “the dialog round Women” and that it helped her ensure that her new present Too A lot, which sees her serving as producer, author and director, featured totally different views and experiences.
“The factor I’ve actually come to consider is that one of the crucial essential issues is not only range in entrance of the digicam, nevertheless it’s range behind the digicam,” she defined. “As a producer, one among my objectives is to convey a whole lot of totally different voices right into a place the place they’ll inform their story.”
Too A lot, which stars Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe, follows New York workaholic Jessica, who strikes to London planning on being alone following a breakup, solely to fulfill Felix, who causes her to rethink discovering love once more. The present debuts on Netflix July 10.