Lena Dunham Teases a Possibility of a “Girls ”Spinoff Starring This Character
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Lena Dunham teased the possibility of a Girls spinoff starring one beloved character from the hit HBO series
The actress revealed she and costar Zosia Mamet have "kicked around jokingly" ideas about where the Girls characters would be today
Mamet previously shared that she would be open to a spinoff
With Girls fans clamoring for a spinoff based on the Shoshanna Shapiro character, Lena Dunham is open to the possibility.
AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R16e4kr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframe AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R26e4kr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframeThe writer, director and actress — whose new series Too Much premieres on Netflix on July 10 — revealed during an appearance on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast that she knows there is more story to tell for the beloved character.
“I love Shoshanna,” she said. “I am on record as saying she is my favorite girl… I think Shoshanna is going places.”
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From left: Lena Dunham and Zosia Mamet on 'Girls'Dunham, 39, shared that it was “such a joy to watch” her former costar Zosia Mamet portray the character on the hit HBO series, which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017.
“So if there was like the right context for us to do it, I'd be f------ thrilled,” she said. “And also to do anything with her…we've all just kicked around jokingly where they would be now.”
“She’d be so brilliant at revisiting it, and I just miss it and I miss her,” she said, adding that she would be “in” for a potential spinoff.
AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R1de4kr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframe AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R2de4kr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframeAs for where the characters are now, Dunham told Variety, “Shoshanna was married to, then divorced from, the mayor of New York City, and she runs an athleisure startup that’s zero-waste.”
“Marnie (Allison Williams) — it’s third marriage,” she continues. “She still sings, but I think Marnie really needs to take it to sex and love addicts anonymous.”
“Jessa (Jemima Kirke) is unvaccinated and lives on a boat in Croatia,” she continued. “Adam (Adam Driver) is a cult theater actor, and he’s probably living in Berlin, and Ray (Alex Karpovsky) is still on city council and running his coffee shop and doing better than anyone. Elijah (Andrew Rannells) is the fourth lead on a sitcom, making a good amount of money and still looking for love in all the wrong places.”
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From left: Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Lena Dunham and Zosia Mamet in 'Girls'Nearly six months before Dunham’s comments, Mamet, 37, also shared that she is ready to bring back the character for a spinoff.
“I’m trying to get Lena to write a Shosh spinoff,” she said on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast in January. “I’ve been, like, slowly working on her. We’ll see. She seems receptive.”
AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R1ke4kr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframe AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R2ke4kr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframeAs fans may recall, the penultimate episode of Girls saw Shoshanna get engaged to a man who Hannah (Dunham) and viewers hadn’t heard about.
“I remember when that idea came up, it was like, ‘How could she?’ Shoshanna’s been very light this season, and it hasn’t been an accident,” Dunham shared in a 2017 interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
“We love Zosia, and we want her acting all of the time,” she continued. “But it has felt like she was going to be the character who made the breakaway first, and we needed to explain what had happened to her during that time.”
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Too Much premieres July 10 on Netflix, while Girls is available to stream on HBO Max.
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