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In the near decade since the revolutionary dramatic of Lena Dunham HBO by Lena Dunham Girls broadcast its latest episode, its creator and star took a big step back compared to the spotlight. Although it has written, carried out and produces a handful of projects in the intermediate years, including the 2018 HBO comedy series Camping and 2022 Film of medieval comedy Catherine called Birdy—Dunham herself said that she had taken an “intentional rupture” of the eye of the public in response to the intense examination which surrounded him during Girls“A race of six seasons (in particular compared to a certain number of controversies for which it faced a counterpoup).
“I did not really understand how to distinguish between what was and was not necessary for the public. I felt confused on the way I was supposed to react,” she said Time In an interview published in June. “I thought that if I explain correctly who I am, or if I give an overview of whom I am, people will have a different perception of me, that we would be friends. But nobody cares – and it’s okay. “
Now Dunham returns to the small screen with Too muchA new series of romantic comedy with 10 episodes available to broadcast on Netflix. This time, while Dunham appears in the show in a support role, Megan Stalter takes the lead as Salmon Jessica Salmon de Dunham, a 30-year-old New York who moves to London in the wake of a devastating break with his longtime boyfriend Zev (Michael Zegen). On the other side of the pond, she meets a musician in difficulty named Felix Remen (Will Sharpe) and the two launched a swirling romance which forces them both to face their individual problems.
Those who followed the news of Dunham’s personal life in the years that followed Girls finished will probably recognize several apparent similarities between the intrigue of Too much And the own story of Dunham, in particular with regard to his breakup of 2018 with the music producer Jack Antonoff, the subsequent move to London, and later the marriage to the Peruvian-British musician Luis Felber, who co-created Too much. As for how much his life has influenced Too muchDunham said Variety, “It is certainly not a quote-unquote Based on a true storyBut like everything I do, there is one element of my own life that I can’t help but inject. »»
Here is all you know how Too much reflects the life of Dunham.
The rupture
After meeting a blind meeting in 2012, Dunham and Antonoff left with five years (throughout the round of Girls) Before the news of their rupture appeared in January 2018. Later this month, US Weekly reported that Antonoff had evolved with model Carlotta Kohl in a story that included an anonymous citation which said that Dunham and Antonoff “had slowly broke for six months”. Antonoff and Kohl finally ended things and, in August 2021, he started to go out with actor Margaret Qualley, which he married in August 2023.
In Too muchJessica and Zev separate after seven years together and Zev begins immediately to go out with Wendy Jones (Emily Ratajkowski), a knitting influencer he meets during a party while he and Jess are still together. When Wendy asks to meet Jess in the final and reveals that she finished with Zev, she explains that he had originally said that he and Jess had been separated for six months before they officially separate – which, according to Jess, is false.
Too much It is also possible to underline Jess’s obsession to verify Wendy’s social media after she meets with Zev, a scenario which – in the process of obtaining a profile of November 2018 from Dunham in which she admitted that it had made her pain to watch the Instagram stories of Antonoff of Antonoff.
“”[B]EING The ex-girlfriend hysterical is a bit like the strangest and the funniest public performance, “she said The cut. “I thought I proved that bizarre girls can also have love. And now he comes out with someone who looks regular and normal and as girls are supposed to look.” (In addition to being an actor, Ratajkowski is also a model.)
Other details of the relationship of Dunham and Antonoff of which Dunham spoke in the press also seem to be mentioned in the series, as in a flashback scene of episode 5 in which Zev tells Jess that she must reduce her pink interior decoration when they move together. In a written test for Domino Dunham, Dunham, wrote how Antonoff hated his taste for decoration.
“”[H]He hated that. He didn’t want to hate him. He tried not to hate him. But he didn’t like to live among the bowels of my mind, “she said.” I felt sick every time I was making a design dealership or covered with Dove gray pink. Love can only survive. “”
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Dogs
As part of the flashbacks to the relationship of Jess and Zev which take place in episode 5, we see that at one point, they adopted a dog named Cutisia at the request of Jess. But after Cutisia had an aggressive meeting with another dog in the park, Jess is forced to give it.
This point of the plot seems to be getting from what happened in real life with Dunham and her Lamby rescue dog, which she abandoned to a rehabilitation center of the Los Angeles canine in 2017 after having originally adopted it since the Barc refuge in Brooklyn. Dunham said in an Instagram position that the decision had been made due to “four years of stimulating behavior and aggression” which were caused by abuses which he suffered as a puppy.
However, the heating of Lamby ended up turning into controversy on the Internet after an employee of Barc wrote an email to a Yahoo journalist saying that Lamby had been very good until he meets Dunham. “You can say a lot of SH-T on me, but I am a very committed animal owner. Ask anyone working with me at an animal level,” said Dunham The cut In response in 2018. “Moreover, how much animal-shelter looks like,” I am an electronic DJ, and I also try to speak to Yahoo! Celebrity “? But the dragging through the public court as it does not make me anywhere. It is better simply to go back and be like” OK, sir, you can extend your career by telling people what a bad dog owner was “.” “”
Of course, it did not help things with his criticisms that, the year after the repopulation of Lamby, Gia Marie, a sphynx cat, Dunham had adopted who had had pulmonary damage after surviving a house fire, and Bowie, his 13 -year -old Yorkie, died a few months old. The series of unhappy events led to an online conspiracy theory that Dunham killed her pets, which she quickly closed, stressing the fact that many animals she had adopted were advanced age.
In Too muchAfter breaking with Zev, Jess adopted a hairless chihuahua named Astrid who becomes his nearest companion. Unfortunately, in the final, Felix hears Astrid having trouble breathing and rushing it to the veterinarian but his heart suggests before Jess arrives to say goodbye.
Marriage
After having moved from New York to London in January 2021, Dunham met Felber to a blind meeting set up by common friends. “The first time we dragged, we haven’t stopped talking for eight hours,” Felber told New York Times Later that year. “I think it was a bit incredible, you know, I got there in it. I had been on a lot of dates in the past year. As a person who is quite open, I find that you hold a lot on your first three dates. Or first 10 dates. I was a little fed up with that, so I just entered the situation myself, I will say.”
In September, Dunham and Felber were married during an impromptu wedding at the Union Club with around 60 guests. This is obviously similar to what is happening between Jess and Felix Too much After meeting in a night bar, Jess moved to London. However, Stalter says that the show is not intended to echo the relationship of Dunham and Felber.
“”[Lena and Luis] He has always clearly shown that it was not only based on them. There was no pressure to make an impression, “said Stalter TIME. “Me and Will were able to take it and add things to ourselves and what we thought that the characters should be …[It wasn’t] As if we were playing them, but giving life to a story that have elements, and ourselves. “”
Despite her happy end, Dunham said she still wanted Too much To reflect the challenges that two people who have their own luggage life can face both individually and as a couple while trying to operate a relationship.
“Everything I have ever done is romantically pessimistic. Even the most romantic episodes of Girls-When Marnie and Charlie come together, a heroine needle falls from her pants, “she said to New York of Too muchOptimistic inclination. “It is such a mortifying answer, but I think it had to do with the meeting with Lu, and be, like” Oh, there is actually the feeling that you can have that it could be ok, that the thing could last, that you do not always run as fast as you can and that you then realize that you are on a treadmill. “He wanted to do something that concerned this feeling, but also grateful that, when we met, we both lived a huge amount of life, trauma, complexity and dependence, what it looks like when you meet and you are both trying to be the best versions of yourself, the version with which you can live, and then you welcome?”
