Fans of Lena Dunham’s hit HBO series, Girls should already be familiar with Amy Schumer‘s character “Angie.” She only appeared twice on the show, but it was enough to make a significant impression on both episodes and the viewers who watched them. She also, as Dunham revealed in the latest edition of her Lenny Letter newsletter, put the cast and crew on set “in stitches, even if she was just dancing across a background shot.” Yet before any of this happened, Schumer auditioned for another role entirely — Shoshanna Shapiro, played by Zosia Mamet.
“I first met Amy Schumer almost six years ago when she came in to audition for the role of Shoshanna,” Dunham began the article, according to Entertainment Weekly. “Everyone in the room was stunned by the detail and skill of her improv, the wild talent radiating off her (and I was personally intrigued by her breasts).”
Schumer’s body notwithstanding, Dunham admitted “Amy wasn’t meant to play an innocent Juicy Couture lover obsessed with emoji — even if her Meatpacking District club lingo was the funniest sh*t I had ever heard.” Yet, the Girls creator claims, Schumer was so good she deserved her own show, and shortly thereafter Inside Amy Schumer premiered on Comedy Central.
It’s kind of challenge to picture Schumer as Shoshanna, who’s nowhere near the type of character fans of Schumer’s have come to expect from her. Can you imagine the Trainwreck star’s version of the character accidentally wearing white to a wedding? No? Me neither.
(Via Entertainment Weekly)
