3 h. ago Too Much star Megan Stalter reveals she was terrified when Lena Dunham first messaged her

‘Panic set in,’ actor said

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7 h. ago ‘We’re told to be polite and small and dainty. But that’s not me!’: Megan Stalter on starring in Lena Dunham’s new romcom, Too Much

Her kooky online skits brought her viral fame and a breakout role in HBO’s Hacks. Then Lena Dunham came calling with the job of a lifetime. Is the actor ready to take centre stage?When Lena Dunham messaged, Megan Stalter lost it. “Like d’uhh,” Stalter is explaining – delighting, really. “Who wouldn’t? I was at home: this really bad apartment in Laurel Canyon [in the Hollywood Hills]. The area is haunted, and it was actually a really scary building, and nothing ever got fixed because apparently in the lease I signed they didn’t have to repair anything! I don’t actually live there now ” Stalter, 34, has a tendency to wander off on tangents. So Dunham?“OK yes, so we were just about to start filming Hacks again.” The wildly popular, 48-times-Emmy-nominated HBO comedy in which Stalter plays nepo-baby Kayla, a chaotic and kind-hearted talent agent, her total-commitment-to-the-bit characterisation making her a breakout star. “And there Lena was in my DMs.” Stalter opene...

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52 h. ago Too Much: who are all the celebs in the cast of Lena Dunham's Netflix show?

The cast list is extensive and starry: we dive right in

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57 h. ago Lena Dunham says new Netflix series is a 'love letter' to her favourite UK city

Lena Dunham was 23 when she sold her Bafta- and Golden Globe-winning series Girls to HBO - which offered a more nuanced and realistic portrayal of four 20-something women navigating life in New York

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65 h. ago Ferries Scotland: SNP told to hand Ferguson Marine 'distinguished future' with urgent investment

A cross-party Holyrood committee has published a damning report into the ferries saga and the future of Ferguson Marine.

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3 d. ago The best new shows coming to Netflix this July, including a Lena Dunham series critics are calling the platform's 'greatest ever romcom'

July is here, which means pub gardens, bare legs and evenings spent drinking vino in the park.

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4 d. ago Lorde's latest 'love triangle': As singer's new partner leaves his girlfriend of six years, the scandalous rumours of star's past with Jack Antonoff and Lena Dunham are resurfaced by fans

New Zealand singer Lorde, who has a new album out, is rumoured to have been embroiled in not one but two romantic feuds over the years.

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6 d. ago Lena Dunham describes her new Netflix series Too Much as a ‘love letter to London’

Writer and director Lena Dunham, along with cast members Will Sharpe and Megan Stalter, tell Lynn Rusk how Too Much celebrates the messiness of life.

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7 d. ago Lena Dunham reveals she and husband Luis Felber are 'in the process of expanding our family' after star  underwent a hysterectomy in 2018

Lena Dunham has revealed she's gearing up for the next big chapter - starting a family with husband Luis Felber.

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8 d. ago Americans Are Fleeing Trump for London—Lena Dunham and Tom Ford Included

Americans Are Fleeing Trump for London—Lena Dunham and Tom Ford Included  Air Mail

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9 d. ago Lena Dunham's Too Much Season 1 release date: Book your romantic London trip this summer on Netflix

Lena Dunham's Too Much Season 1 release date: Book your romantic London trip this summer on Netflix  Popverse

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1 week ago Ban on political parties taking part in Pride ‘a retrograde step’, says minister

Chris Bryant told a debate on Pride month that political parties were crucial to the rights given to LGBT+ people in the UK.

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1 week ago Allison Williams says Girls cast weren’t given proper credit for show due to focus on privilege

‘We were easy targets, I get it,’ actor said

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1 week ago ‘We were all pretty privileged’: Allison Williams on Girls, nepo babies and toxic momfluencers

She made her name in Lena Dunham’s landmark series, then starred in Get Out. As she returns in M3gan 2.0, the sequel to the hit horror about a murderous AI doll, she talks about parenting in an age of smartphones, Botox and her famous fatherIf you had wandered the set of the film M3gan 2.0 last year, chances are you would have stumbled into M3gan, the terrifying humanoid doll, staring lifelessly while she waited to be called for her next scene. Sometimes she would stand in the corner of the soundstage, says Allison Williams with a nervy laugh. “The dilemma is: do you turn her around so she’s facing the wall, or do you let her face the room? Both answers are wrong.”In the sequel to the sci-fi horror M3gan, Williams resumes her role as Gemma, a roboticist who has become a crusader against rampant and reckless AI development after her creation – developed for her orphaned niece – became murderous. (She is also a producer on the second film.) Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Emily Ratajkowski loved opportunity to shape character in Netflix show Too Much

The model-turned-actress stars in Lena Dunham’s new romcom series, which drops on the streaming service in July.

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2 w. ago I'm a city councillor and a nudist... people think it's strange but I don't see an issue

Julien Ferrat, city councilor of Mannheim and representative of local political party 'Die Mannheime' told MailOnline he is planning to visit the naturist village of Cap d'Agde in August.

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2 w. ago Federal employees say many government agencies at a standstill thanks to DOGE cuts: ‘We are set up for failure’

‘Without science, the agency can’t function. And that’s what we’re seeing right now,’ one source told Politico

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2 w. ago Audit found ‘clear evidence of representation’ of Asian and Pakistani men in grooming gang cases in local data, MPs told – UK politics live

Yvette Cooper tells parliament that Louise Casey audit found ‘organisations avoided topic for fear of appearing racist or raising community tensions’Starmer launches new grooming gangs investigationIn his interview on the Sky News this morning Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said that Keir Starmer should apologise for saying in January that those calling for a national inquiry into grooming gangs were jumping on a far-right bandwagon. Kemi Badenoch, his party leader, is also quoted today in an Daily Express splash story saying Starmer should apologise, but she is saying he should apologise for not agreeing to hold a national inquiry earlier.At the Downing Street lobby briefing this morning the No 10 spokesperson was asked if Starmer still thought that people who backed a national inquiry in January were joining a far-right bandwagon. In response, the spokesperson defended the phrase, and insisted that it only applied to Tories who were now demanding an inquiry they never set...

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2 w. ago 'Deeply offensive': Scottish council apologises after school suggests Union flag is 'sectarian'

Tory MSP Jackson Carlaw had demanded an immediate apology from the council over the letter.

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2 w. ago 'Deeply offensive': Scottish council told to apologise after school suggests Union flag is 'sectarian'

Jackson Carlaw MSP says the council should apologise immediately for the letter.

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