The Cast of "Too Much" Discuss Messy Love

TIME

Director, writer and actor Lena Dunham, who rose to fame with acclaimed HBO comedy-drama show "Girls" in 2012, introduces new "messy" characters through rose tinted glasses in her new TV show, "Too Much," starring Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe.

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00:00I always like to write from a place that begins with the personal,

00:03because I think personal stories are universal,

00:06and then see what it has in store for me.

00:09And just remember, okay?

00:14You're my best thing.

00:16You know, in my 20s, I think I was disappointed

00:18because I was looking around at this world of romance,

00:20and I was nowhere to be found.

00:22It was hookup culture and people moving on from each other

00:26quicker than you could say go,

00:28and it surprised me what dating wasn't as much as what dating was.

00:35And so I think that I really had such high hopes

00:41for entering the romantic world when I was younger,

00:44and that's one of the reasons I think Girls

00:46was a little bit more romantically cynical.

00:49And I think being in my 30s and learning new definitions of romance...

00:53I could go and read your mind.

00:55I came here to find myself.

00:57A lot of stuff went down in New York.

00:58My ex-boyfriend is living with another woman right now.

01:01Oh, my God!

01:02Do you want me to murder them?

01:03Yeah.

01:04I want you to cut their heads off and sew them back on.

01:06I think that Lena does such an amazing job writing stuff that feels real.

01:11And then even the dialogue of when we first meet or we're walking to the apartment,

01:18it just sounded so real.

01:20Just two people kind of flirting, wondering if they were flirting, and that's all Lena.

01:26There was one of my favorite things about the show was how it's just not shy about the messiness of life

01:33and the messiness of relationships and lets you sit in kind of the awkward moments.

01:38And yeah, just like the more difficult parts of it as well, you know.

01:43My thing is that I love anyone who I feel like is working hard to become a better, more engaged, more evolved version of themselves.

01:54I don't need someone to be perfectly together and know what they're doing all the time and never make a mistake.

02:00And I love my own friend, the messiness of my friends.

02:05I love the messiness of my family.

02:07And on a good day, I even love the messiness of myself.

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