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When Megan Stalter, the main lady of the new Netflix series by Lena Dunham, “Too Much”, arrived on stage at the “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” this week, she did it in a blonde wig of veal honey and a high who said that she was the prettiest girl in America. “It must be a serious actor evening,” joked Stalter by taking his place next to Colbert – not before at least 5 seconds of swishing, click and kissing the camera.
After all, she is an actress, who has made her way through the standing circuits of Chicago and online via social media platforms such as Tiktok, before finally winning her rupture role in the HBO series “Hacks” in 2021. And now, only four years later, she has a main role in the “Dunham girls” and much awaited – the work of autofiction since the HBO Dunham – and highly anticipated – the work of self -fiction since the HBO struck Dunham’s “girls”. (HBO and CNN share the same parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.)
Some actors could complete under pressure that new fame brings, but Stalter does not take anything too seriously.
Stalter’s greater than life personality appears from the moment she struts on Colbert’s stage with a Prada Cleo shoulder bag nestled under her arm. “Oh, I saw the screen up there! I seem incredible,” she interrupts Colbert as they speak, her wig gradually becoming more tangled in her heel-shaped nails. She asks the end of evening host if he recently returned from Disney, and joking to see him on Space Mountain, which Colbert finds visibly confusing. But nothing seems to contribute to his comedy style “cringing teeth” (an emerging sub-genre of humor that revels in the discomfort of his viewers) more than his clothes.
Her high -free top – who, she said to Colbert, is only her comedy T -shirt on a corset that she sewn in place in the car trip – reads, simple and simple: “Meg Stalter is the prettiest girl in America.” A photo of Stalter appears sporting on the front, this time in an even lighter blonde wig, wearing a stars and stripes bikini, with the American flag as a backdrop. “I love your shirt,” said Colbert, to what Stalter replied: “So many people kept saying it, I thought it was probably time to put it on a fucking shirt!” Before taking another theatrical wink in the crowd. Even his Prada bag becomes an accessory. As she puts it in front of Colbert and he begins to explore his content, she rumbles it quickly: “You never know how many pads could be in there if I am on my big period!”
The outfit is only a few laps from the dial far from what his character that Jessica could carry in “Too”. In the program, which is vaguely based on Dunham’s own transatlantic decision in 2021, the excessive American burst of Jessica makes her incongruous in London, a city known for its reserved and emotionally distant residents. She experiences a culture shock and has occasional misunderstandings (see her misinterpretation of the English jure “Bollocking”) after having emigrated to New York City.
On the screen, Jessica’s clothes are daring, original and unpredictable – in a scene, it accessorizes a 70s style PVC trench with a fur necklace by Celiab with a turquoise bag; In another, she wears a custom-made metallic blue ruffle robe with a giant arc on her back. The fusion of daring colors, confronted prints and other pairs of strange bullets, selected by the costume designer of the program Arielle Cooper-onlym, visually help to visually make Jessica as a foreigner in London, where the notation of neutral colored has largely become an omnipresent uniform. “She lives her glamorous dream, but she is still unable to blend,” said Cooper-freshm to W Magazine. “Like, she doesn’t know how to be silent.”
Kat Typaldos, who organized the recent looks of the Stalter press tour, also registered for Cooper-Celethem. “His work inspired my approach,” recently wrote Typaldos on Instagram Stories, alongside a photo of Stalter during the screening of the program.
However, Stalter’s longtime fans will know that she has always found funny fashion. During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel in 2021, the actor holds on the stage in a tiara, a princess dress in a giant pink tulle and a belt that said “the prettiest girl in the world”. Like a unleashed Miss World winner, she held up her face as if she were crying while cradling a bouquet of roses, before kissing the public and taking place. During the celebration of Criticisms of Cinema and LGBTQ + television in Los Angeles last month, Stalter was once again wore a DI Petsa dress and its promotion promotion tiara, this time with a “best gay actor” belt (Stalter identifies as bisexual).
Needless to say, Stalter is not afraid to maximize a press opportunity with an outfit that turns the head – especially when a superlative is involved. In fact, she could be the guest of the most fearful talk show that we have ever seen.
