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‘Too Much’: Megan Stalter, Will Sharpe & Lena Dunham on the Swooniest Moments They Love (VIDEO)
[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Too Much Season 1.]
Too Much has arrived on Netflix, and it’s full of swoony moments for the couple at the heart of this rom-com series. Jessica (Megan Stalter) is an American transplant making her way in London, and Felix (Will Sharpe) is the musician and performer who happens to steal her heart.
While they’re not without their ups and downs throughout the 10-episode season, we caught up with Stalter, Sharpe, and series creator Lena Dunham to find out their favorite romantic moments from the show. It soon became quite clear that this trio is on the same page, as they all cited Episode 2’s mixtape listening session in which Felix makes Jessica a mixtape and the pair quietly listens to it on her bed.
“One of the most romantic scenes is the scene where we’re just lying on the bed listening to music together,” Stalter says. “I thought it was such a beautiful song, and the way that Lena let it play out I thought was so sweet.”
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“Yeah… She’s so good at, I think, capturing kind of the nuances of how people interact and how they make connections, and in that scene… I really feel like it’s absolutely the correct choice to play it out for the length that she does,” Sharpe says in agreement with his costar. “If it was even a few seconds shorter, you wouldn’t, I don’t think, get to the point where you’re feeling what they’re feeling,” he adds.
But there are plenty of other swoonworthy musical moments as Sharpe and Stalter point out in the video interview above. “I love the scene where you’re singing Felix a lullaby,” Sharpe says, looking at Stalter.
“Oh, come on, that is such a good one to say,” Stalter says in response. “That is so beautiful.”
Dunham also loves the mixtape scene, explaining, “I feel like it was my teenage fantasy of what a boy would do. We even had him giving it to her on a Discman. I don’t know who uses a Discman now, so that was really like speaking to my own teenage heart.” Chronicling those romantic moments was the ultimate aim of Dunham, who captured audiences with HBO‘s Girls in 2012. “That was the exact goal, and we want people to feel like it’s realistic yet swoony and that those two things can live together,” she gushes.
As for rom-com inspirations, there are plenty of references in the episodes, but Dunham reveals the exact tone she was going for was, “I wanted it to feel like Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Worst Person in the World. I wanted to feel as though you’re watching something that is upbeat and joyful about a woman who’s trying her best in a wild and daffy world, and then I also want it to feel like it has those moments of gravitas and intensity and pain that are always part of finding a love story.”
We’d say she hit the bullseye. But what did you think of Too Much? Tell us your favorite romantic moments from the series in the comments section below.
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