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Cosmopolitan
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Is Netflix's ‘Too Much' Based on a True Story?
Lena Dunham's new comedy series Too Much has landed on Netflix. The 10-part series, which stars Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe, follows Jessica as she moves to the UK to for a new life, following a toxic breakup. There, Jessica plans to live a solitary life abroad, much like the Brontë sisters, but finds herself falling head-over-heels for musician Felix, who is described as 'less Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and more Hugh Grant's drunken roommate.' It's a love story, and one that many can relate to. But is it based on a true story? Here's everything you need to know. It is. Sort of. Too Much is inspired by writer and director Lena Dunham's own experience of moving abroad and falling in love with a musician, although she has pointed out that the exact plot of the show differs from her real life. Dunham developed the series alongside her husband, Luis Felber, whom she met and married in the UK, where she has lived for several years. Speaking about the inspiration behind the series, she told Tudum: 'When I first started coming to the UK for work … I thought to myself, 'I want to write something about the experience of being a foreigner here, and the fantasies we have of [London] versus the realities.' Then when I met my husband, Luis, I felt like I was experiencing all of that, but in the context of a relationship.' Although the show has been described as 'semi-autobiographical,' Dunham said it was more of the 'germ' of the series that was based on her and Felber's romance. 'A girl moves to England. She meets a musician. They fall in love. That was the exoskeleton. But then he's such an amazing and creative thinker and loves stories, and so it really expanded far beyond what we had even dreamed it could be into a totally different world,' Dunham told The Hollywood Reporter. 'We feel really, really lucky that we got to do this together, and then of course the actors come in and the characters become different because the actors have taken over. So while the germ of it may be autobiographical, it's gone in directions I never could've dreamed.' She added: 'I have wanted to make a romantic comedy about what happens when a loud, messy, complicated Jewess descends on a city of deeply repressed people—what will occur.' Too Much is now streaming on Netflix.
Daily Mail
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Lena Dunham reveals 'inappropriate' mistake she made early in her relationship with husband Luis Felber
Lena Dunham has revealed the one question she asked husband Luis Felber 'inappropriately' early in their relationship. The 39-year-old Girls creator met her other half, also 39, in January 2021 on a blind date after being set up by friends. After immediately hitting it off, they went on to marry just nine months later in September of that same year. Speaking to Michelle Buteau at Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday night, Lena shared a glimpse of the early days of her romance with Luis as she also discussed their upcoming Netflix series, Too Much, which they co-created and co-produced. 'This was a project that I was incubating with my husband Luis,' she began before pointing out to the musician, who was sitting in the audience. After referring to him as 'king,' Lena went on to share the daring question. 'He always jokes that I asked him to work on a TV show inappropriately too soon in the relationship,' she recalled. 'Like sooner than I could have found out he had another family and had been keeping it quiet the whole time. It was like four weeks.' Explaining why she so desperately wanted to collaborate with Luis, she continued: 'He was so funny and his notes on things were so good. And I thought, you have a skill that has not yet been tapped into. 'And in his inimitable, lowkey kinda way, I said, "have you ever thought about working on a TV show?" and he was like, "no but I could probably do it." And he did not know what was coming for him. 'And so we started working back and forth this idea.' Lena and her husband teamed up to co-create the 10-part romantic comedy Too Much for Netflix, which is slated to release on July 10. 'We were in the UK, I was finishing up a film there with Tim Bevan from Working Title and I said to him [Luis], I have wanted to do a romantic comedy about what happens when a loud, messy, complicated Jewess descends on a city of deeply repressed people. 'And to his credit, he thought that was enough of a premise and we started working out this idea.' Helmed by Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe, Too Much follows New Yorker Jessica (Stalter) as she starts a new life in London after a disastrous breakup. There, she finds an impossible-to-ignore connection with Felix (Sharpe). Both in their 30s, the pair grapple with how to form a relationship with the baggage that both bring from their lives and previous romances. Besides Megan and Will, the cast also boasts of huge names including Emily Ratajkowski, Richard E. Grant, Adwoa Aboah, Rita Wilson, Stephen Fry, Andrew Scott, Andrew Rannells, and Reha Perlman. And even Lena was blown away by the star power that she managed to gather for the project. 'I'm still shocked that all these schedules worked, and all these people came together because everyone was in this show was who I wrote the role for and so I'm just pinching myself,' she said. 'That's a rare experience.' Lena also gushed over Rita Ora's performance, revealing that she 'delivers' in the show's season finale. 'Rita Ora is a really good actor, and I want her to get more respect on her acting name,' she enthused. 'I want Rita Ora to get her flowers.' She continued: 'I mean, we know she's beautiful, but she came in and played this sort of like pseudo version of Rita Ora. There were some moments where I teared up. 'It was extremely affecting.
