Lena Dunham understands ‘Girls’ diversity criticism, talks ‘Too Much’

Lena Dunham returns to the criticisms she was faced with her polarizing signature project.

THE Too much Creator addressed the lack of diversity on his dramatic of the 2010s, Girlsin an interview with The independent Saturday, admitting that the title of the show could have put viewers for a disappointment.

“I think one of the deep problems around Girls“Dunham said,” was that there were so few real estate for women on television [then] that if you had a show called GirlsWho is such a monolithic name, it seems that it describes all girls in all places. And so if this does not reflect a multitude of experiences, I understand how it would be really disappointing for people. “”

Girls Focusing on a group of four young white women based in New York, played by Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mat. Dunham had previously defended the show – which she created, written, produced by the executive, played in and sometimes directed – Detractors by explaining his personal connection with his particular career.

“I’m a half-juif, half a player, and I wrote two Jews and two wasps,” she said at NPR Fresh air In 2012. “Something I wanted to avoid was tokenism in the cast. If I had one of the four girls-if, for example, it was African-American, I have the impression that not that the experience of an African-American girl and a white girl is radically different, but there must be a specificity to this experience [that] I couldn’t speak. “”

Although Dunham sometimes felt frustrated by the discourse on diversity in the past, she says that she “loved the conversation around Girls“Overall, adding that his new show, Too muchhas a much more diverse casting and crew.

“What I really came to believe is that one of the most important things is not only diversity in front of the camera, but it is diversity behind the camera,” she said The independent. “As a producer, one of my goals is to bring a lot of different voices to a position where they can tell their story.”

Co-created by Dunham and her husband, Luis Felber, Too much Stars Megan Stalter (Hacks) As Jessica, a New Yorker of work in the mid -1930s recovered from a broken relationship that accepted a job in London, where she plans to live a loneliness. However, when she meets Felix (The white lotus Breakout of season 2 will be Sharpe), she cannot deny their unusual chemistry.

Elsewhere in the new interview, Dunham expressed how the conversation around his silhouette through Girls“Six seasons on HBO deterred her from continuing more acting projects. “Having my dissected body was a reason why I generally chose to take a step back to act a little more and focus on my writing and management,” she said, “and also make different types of choice as an actor.”

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Too much First on July 10 on Netflix.