Lena Dunham has revealed the one question she asked husband Luis Felber ‘inappropriately’ early in their relationship.
The 39-year-old Girls creator met her other half, also 39, in January 2021 on a blind date after being set up by friends.
After immediately hitting it off, they went on to marry just nine months later in September of that same year.
Speaking to Michelle Buteau at Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday night, Lena shared a glimpse of the early days of her romance with Luis as she also discussed their upcoming Netflix series, Too Much, which they co-created and co-produced.
‘This was a project that I was incubating with my husband Luis,’ she began before pointing out to the musician, who was sitting in the audience.
After referring to him as ‘king,’ Lena went on to share the daring question.
‘He always jokes that I asked him to work on a TV show inappropriately too soon in the relationship,’ she recalled.
‘Like sooner than I could have found out he had another family and had been keeping it quiet the whole time. It was like four weeks.’
Lena Dunham has revealed the one question she asked husband Luis Felber ‘inappropriately’ early in their relationship
The Girls creator married musician Luis in September 2021, nine months after their first date
Explaining why she so desperately wanted to collaborate with Luis, she continued: ‘He was so funny and his notes on things were so good. And I thought, you have a skill that has not yet been tapped into.
‘And in his inimitable, lowkey kinda way, I said, “have you ever thought about working on a TV show?” and he was like, “no but I could probably do it.” And he did not know what was coming for him.
‘And so we started working back and forth this idea.’
Lena and her husband teamed up to co-create the 10-part romantic comedy Too Much for Netflix, which is slated to release on July 10.
‘We were in the UK, I was finishing up a film there with Tim Bevan from Working Title and I said to him [Luis], I have wanted to do a romantic comedy about what happens when a loud, messy, complicated Jewess descends on a city of deeply repressed people.
‘And to his credit, he thought that was enough of a premise and we started working out this idea.’
Helmed by Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe, Too Much follows New Yorker Jessica (Stalter) as she starts a new life in London after a disastrous breakup.
There, she finds an impossible-to-ignore connection with Felix (Sharpe). Both in their 30s, the pair grapple with how to form a relationship with the baggage that both bring from their lives and previous romances.
Lena and Luis co-created and co-produced the upcoming Netflix romcom series Too Much
‘He always jokes that I asked him to work on a TV show inappropriately too soon in the relationship,’ she told audiences at Tribeca Film Festival
Lena revealed she asked Luis to work with her just four weeks into their relationship
Besides Megan and Will, the cast also boasts of huge names including Emily Ratajkowski, Richard E. Grant, Adwoa Aboah, Rita Wilson, Stephen Fry, Andrew Scott, Andrew Rannells, and Reha Perlman.
And even Lena was blown away by the star power that she managed to gather for the project.
‘I’m still shocked that all these schedules worked, and all these people came together because everyone was in this show was who I wrote the role for and so I’m just pinching myself,’ she said.
‘That’s a rare experience.’
Lena also gushed over Rita Ora’s performance, revealing that she ‘delivers’ in the show’s season finale.
‘Rita Ora is a really good actor, and I want her to get more respect on her acting name,’ she enthused. ‘I want Rita Ora to get her flowers.’
She continued: ‘I mean, we know she’s beautiful, but she came in and played this sort of like pseudo version of Rita Ora. There were some moments where I teared up.
‘It was extremely affecting.
