Lena Dunham has revealed that she became so obsessed with the reality TV series Vanderpump Rules that she wanted to make a film about the widely publicised cheating scandal known as 'Scandoval', starring Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Scott.
Appearing on the podcast Shut Up Evan, the Girls star said she became fixated on the Bravo show and envisioned a serious adaptation of the Season 10 affair, which saw Tom Sandoval and Rachel Leviss betray Ariana Madix. Dunham said she even contacted talk show host Andy Cohen to pitch the idea.
“I literally became so obsessed that I thought, ‘What can we do while the writers’ strike is down?’” Dunham told host Evan Ross Katz. “We should do a reenactment of the reunion in which Ariana confronts Tom and then takes Rachel/Raquel to town with trained actors.”
Dunham added that she had a cast list ready, suggesting Andrew Scott for Sandoval and Jennifer Lawrence for Madix. “I sounded like someone who was having a break with reality and thought I was Jesus. That’s how obsessive I was,” she said.
Whether the film will ever be made remains unclear, but Cohen hosted a live reading of the reunion in 2024 on Sirius XM’s Radio Andy, featuring celebrities including Chrissy Teigen and Susan Lucci. The scandal led to a fallout among the cast, and Bravo later announced the series would take an extended hiatus before returning with an all-new cast for season 12, with only Lisa Vanderpump returning from the original line-up.
