Eight years after Ladies ended, Lena Dunham is returning to the small display screen with Netflix‘s Too A lot.
The Golden Globe winner 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 the best way to distinguish between what was and wasn’t essential for the general public. I felt confused about how I used to be supposed to reply,” she advised The Instances. “I believed if I clarify correctly who I’m, or give a glimpse of who I’m, persons are going to have a special notion of me, that we’d be associates. However nobody cares — and that’s tremendous.”
Dunham added, “I at all times joke that I want 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 range and different controversies, Dunham confronted backlash for her assist of collection author/government 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 nervousness medicine, Dunham “felt like all of the maturing and altering that had been saved at bay by the expertise of being in that cocoon of the present was instantly occurring at a pace that was overwhelming. It was a painful metamorphosis. I positively 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 Ladies 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 collection, explaining she “was not keen to have one other expertise like what I’d skilled round Ladies 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 advised The New Yorker final July.
