Lena Dunham Addresses Possible ‘Girls’ Shoshanna Spinoff

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With Girls experiencing a resurgence in recent years, fans of Zosia Mamet’s character Shoshanna Shapiro have been hopeful that she would get her own spinoff.

And now Girls creator Lena Dunham is addressing that possibility.

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“I love Shoshanna. I am on record as saying she is my favorite girl,” Dunham said on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, adding that Shoshanna is the character that is most likely “going places” out of the four main girls.

In addition to loving the character of Shoshanna, Dunham said that it was “such a joy to watch Zosia be her.”

“So if there was, like, the right context for us to do it, I’d be fucking thrilled,” Dunham said. “And also to do anything with her.”

Dunham explained that she and Mamet have jokingly “kicked around” ideas of where Shoshanna would be today. “She’d be so brilliant at revisiting it, and I just miss it and I miss her,” Dunham said, stating that she would be “in” to do a spinoff about Shoshanna.

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Mamet has also expressed interest in revisiting the character in a spinoff. “I’m trying to get Lena to write a Shosh spinoff,” Mamet said when she appeared on the same podcast in January. “I’ve been, like, slowly working on her. We’ll see. She seems receptive.”

Meanwhile, the idea of doing a Girls follow-up has long been of interest to Dunham. In a January 2022 cover story, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Dunham had engaged in informal talks with HBO about a possible Girls reboot, in which the characters were older and wiser.

Though, she admitted it wasn’t the right time.

“We all recognize it’s not time yet,” she said. “I want it to be at a moment when the characters’ lives have really changed.”

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And HBO boss Casey Bloys added, “As proud of the show as we are, there aren’t any plans to bring Girls back. It’s great to know new viewers will continue to discover the [original] series.”

The penultimate episode of Girls featured the surprise that Shoshanna was engaged to a man neither Hannah (Dunham) or viewers had heard of.

“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 told THR at the time. “We love Zosia, and we want her acting all of the time. 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.”

Dunham makes her return to TV with Netflix’s Too Much, which she created and based loosely on her real-life romance with husband Luis Felber, streaming Thursday.

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