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- May 15, 2018
The problem is that Lena plays the squidgy comedienne but wants the world to recognize her as a beautiful ingenue, and these are two archetypes that have zero overlap whatsoever (Amy Schumer is almost as bad when it comes to this). Melissa McCarthy is so successful because she has zero vanity when it comes to her roles. She's fine with playing crass, brash and gross because that's what her niche is, and at the end of the day she's laughing all the way to the bank and to the Oscars. Lena, on the other hand, is popping her 5th benzo for the night and wondering why she got cast as a lesser Manson follower and not Sharon Tate herself (which she'll inevitably turn into some self-absorbed think piece for Vogue).
Yes, and these were subplots, themes, or even entire episodes within Tiny Furniture and Girls.
In Girls, the episode where pasty, dumpy, lipless Lena stumbles upon a wealthy, handsome doctor and has an intense sexual and emotional weekend fling with him was so incredibly factitious to be almost comical.