Lena Dunham isn’t simply making a comeback together with her Megan Stalter-starring Netflix romantic comedy sequence “Too A lot” — she additionally has a film she wrote and is directing set to premiere on the platform, and starring Oscar-winner Natalie Portman. In actual fact, it will seem that Netflix actually needed “Good Intercourse,” additionally a rom-com which co-stars style stalwart Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, and Rashida Jones. In any case, the streamer paid a reported $55 million for it.
Dunham, although, isn’t treasured in regards to the film forgoing a theatrical launch to go straight to the platform. To her, that’s another person’s battle.
“I actually simply need individuals to sit down on a sofa with their mothers and their besties and lean in,” she mentioned in an interview with Selection. “I like watching different filmmakers struggle for the theatrical-release factor — however I don’t suppose this may stay or die by that.”
“Good Intercourse” went into manufacturing this month, so a launch date remains to be very a lot pending. Tucker Pillsbury, identified to the music scene as rapper Function Mannequin, will make his movie debut within the film. “He had this humor and essence that basically felt like rom-com gold,” Dunham mentioned, describing discovering him on her shadow TikTok account. “He’s giving early Brad Pitt, like once you noticed him in ‘Thelma & Louise.’”
In a nod to her late good friend and romcom queen author/director Nora Ephron, Dunham was excited to get Ryan on board. She pitched the film to Ryan after they each attended Taylor Swift’s London cease on the Eras tour. “I made a decision, it’s now or by no means, and I’m going to shoot my shot. She couldn’t be a lovelier individual,” Dunham associated. “Shout-out Taylor — thanks for that. She brings everybody collectively; she makes the world go spherical.”
Ryan has been slowly elevating her profile as soon as once more, after a reasonably stagnant interval with out a lot mainstream motion. In February, she appeared in a much-discussed Hellmann’s Mayo Tremendous Bowl business with Billy Crystal that lampooned undoubtedly her most well-known film second from “When Harry Met Sally.” Two years in the past, Ryan made her personal stab at writing/directing a romantic comedy with the small-scale theatrical launch “What Occurs Later” alongside David Duchovny.