Lena Dunham se abre sobre a nova série Netflix, ‘MUITO’

Thirteen years after “Girls” put her on the Hollywood map, Lena Dunham is back with a new television series, ” Too Much, ” that’s once again inspired by her real-life experiences. This time, the eight-time Emmy nominee has teamed up with British musician Luis Felber, her husband of nearly four years, to create what she describes as a classic “wherever you go, there you are.”

The 10-episode series, which premieres on Netflix Thursday, follows Jessica Salmon (played by “Hacks” actor and comedian Megan Stalter ), a New Yorker who moves to London after a painful breakup with her boyfriend of seven years, Zev (Michael Zegen).

Shortly after arriving in the British capital, Jessica begins a relationship with a local punk musician, Felix ( Will Sharpe of “The White Lotus” fame). By all accounts, Felix is dreamy, thoughtful, and charming. Yet, Jessica finds herself driven to the brink of self-sabotage by the Instagram posts of Zev’s new fiancée, Wendy Jones ( Emily Ratajkowski ), who happens to be a social media influencer.

Although Dunham worked closely with Ratajkowski to ensure Wendy was a fully developed character, she was adamant the main antagonist for most of the show’s first season would be Jessica’s idea of Wendy, as seen through social media filters, and not Wendy herself.

“A lot of us have done the classic compare and dispel. It’s always been something we’ve done, but social media has made it so much easier,” Dunham told HuffPost in an interview. “Women in our culture… we want to support each other, but there’s also this whole comparison that makes you villainize someone or think their reality is somehow easier than yours.”

“Jessica is dismissive of Wendy’s career as an influencer,” he added. “She’s dismissive of Wendy’s beauty because of stereotypes about what a conventionally attractive woman might be experiencing in her inner life. But at the end of the day, she finds Wendy to be someone she can relate to much more deeply than she could have imagined.”

Much of the early buzz on “Too Much” emphasized Dunham’s decision not to cast herself as the main character; she does, however, have a supporting role as Jessica’s older sister, Nora. But before they belong, Stalter came to see Jessica as “a version of me and Lena together, with her own thing going on.”

“I clicked with [Lena] immediately, and I just became obsessed with wanting to be around her,” she joked. “When you spend a lot of time hanging out with someone, you start saying things the way they say them and have little one-liners, so I feel like the character is [both of] us together. It’s such a beautiful, funny, serious, realistic love story.”

Sharpe echoed these sentiments, noting that “Too Much” gave him a rare opportunity to showcase his musical chops on screen.

“We had a few days of rehearsal, which is when we met in London and read the scenes, but we didn’t cover too much of it before we started filming,” he recalled. “That meant that, as the characters are getting to know each other on the show, we were also getting to know each other.”

He noted, “All of these characters are so brilliantly drawn. They all have layers to unpack, and one of the most enjoyable and rewarding things about being a part of this series, I think, was going on that journey.”

It’s easy to find parallels to Dunham’s off-screen life in “Too Much.” She relocated to London —where she and Felber still reside—in 2019, and was quickly drawn to the idea of writing a romantic comedy with an expat character at its center.

Felber, she said, brought his talents as a musician to the series’ soundtrack and helped ensure the show’s British accents were accurate. He also helped design Felix and other male characters on the show.

“I always wrote male characters kind of in this bubble, and while I was really trying to confront them, I think there are aspects of masculinity—a concept that we’re talking about a lot culturally—[Luis’] perspective was really valuable,” Dunham explained. “He helped transform Felix’s character from someone who could have been a knight in shining armor coming to the rescue of a female character into someone who had his own traumas and challenges.”

Watch the trailer for “too much” below.