{"id":351851,"date":"2025-11-03T04:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351851\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T04:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:46:16","slug":"rachel-sennott-talks-mining-her-20s-for-hbo-comedy-series-i-love-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351851\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Sennott Talks Mining Her 20s For HBO Comedy Series ‘I Love L.A.’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn her Gen Z hangout comedy I Love L.A., Rachel Sennott<\/a> lovingly holds a mirror up to the city\u2019s 20-something transplants. As with the city itself, there is a lot to love about the latest generation of young adults to be chewed up and spit out in L.A., even if they could stand to work on a few things, too. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wanted to obviously not take ourselves too seriously,\u201d Sennott acknowledges. However, there are a lot of distinct obstacles that her generation has come up against while coming of age, and she wanted to be honest about those.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s hard,\u201d she says of the road blocks Gen Z has faced. For the record, Sennott considers herself a \u201czillennial,\u201d adding that the problems are more severe for those a few years younger than her. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEspecially if I look at my younger siblings,\u201d she continued. \u201cOne of my sisters went to college for one year, then had to come home for COVID. My other sister is doing high school on Zoom\u2026then there\u2019s strikes. The government isn\u2019t \u2014 \u201d she briefly pauses here \u2014 \u201cthe job market, all of it, it\u2019s just hard. We\u2019re not able to accomplish the same things our parents were at this age. It feels like nothing you do is ever enough. There\u2019s way too much information on our phones. [There\u2019s] images in my mind that I will never delete\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe trails off. In other words, the list goes on. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe last decade has proven to be quite a turbulent one in which to come of age, Sennott argues, giving her characters a different perspective on that universal period in life. <\/p>\n

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\n\tSennott executive produces and showruns with Emma Barrie, a self-described \u201celderly millennial\u201d who says the pair were set up on a \u201cblind date\u201d by HBO<\/a>, but \u201cit was love at first sight, because we vibed really quickly.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAs she says it, Sennott chimes in with an affirmative, \u201cWe just vibed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe two first-time showrunners combined Sennott\u2019s perspective on coming of age in the internet generation and Barrie\u2019s experience in a writers room, including on HBO\u2019s Barry, to get the series off the ground.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRachel was my window into a generation younger than me who, we all went through COVID, but she went through COVID in a way that was way more detrimental to her settling into her career, and she missed her years of really being able to f*ck around and feel it out. It is a generation to be taken very seriously. They are often made fun of by people who don\u2019t understand them,\u201d Barrie said.<\/p>\n

\n\tEnter the friend group at the center of I Love L.A., which Sennott says \u201crepresent different responses to what the generation has been through.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s her character Maia, an overachieving perfectionist who is white knuckling her way through her career despite few connections and a boss who is not all that concerned with her upward mobility. \u201cShe\u2019s like, \u2018I will get the last job on the Titanic as it sinks,’\u201d Sennott muses. <\/p>\n

\n\tThen there\u2019s Tallulah, who Sennott says \u201cis a little bit more of a nihilist.\u201d She\u2019s an influencer who marches to the beat of her own drum and doesn\u2019t seem all that concerned with societal standards for success. There\u2019s also Alani (True Whitaker), an unaffected nepo baby who just wants everyone to get along, and Charlie (Jordan Firstman), an aspiring designer who is carving his own path after deciding the traditional routes weren\u2019t working for him. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe foil to all of these characters is Josh Hutcherson as Maia\u2019s boyfriend Dylan. He\u2019s a teacher who is a bit older than Maia and her friends and, at times, seems completely disconnected from their version of reality. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI think Dylan was someone who could have been condescending\u2026but Josh just brought this art to it. He gels so well with the rest of the cast, and you feel like he is living in a different world a little bit, but he\u2019s never making fun of that other world,\u201d Barrie said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAgreeing, Sennott says the goal with building out the central friend group was to have \u201call these different perspectives and responses to being this age right now and not really judging any of them as the right or wrong way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s humor and comedy to be had there, but I think, also, I didn\u2019t want to feel like we were making fun of our characters before we met them,\u201d she continued. \u201cWe wanted to look at the characters with empathy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe show, which Sennott pitches as \u201cEntourage for internet girls,\u201d is also a bit more self-reflective than it may seem on its surface. I Love L.A. is all about the dualities of the namesake city and its young people, but when it came to creating the show, Sennott applied that same type of reflection inward.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think part of it was going through my Saturn Return, and I feel like this thing sort of happens \u2014 my early 20s were really chaotic. My mid-20s, I was like, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m locking in. I know my life. I\u2019m done.\u2019 And then at the end of my 20s, I feel like that kind of early version of myself came [out] and things got chaotic again, which was scary, but good,\u201d she observed. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn a way, Tallulah almost represents me when I was younger, me when I lived in New York, and Maya is sort of like me where I was a couple years ago, which is like the most anxious, control-freaky [person], and sort of like the collision of the two,\u201d she added. \u201cThe thing is, Maya and Tallulah are better together. I think that [was a] period where things got shaken up again, but all for the better\u2026I think, in your late 20s, everyone is sort of picking their path, and it\u2019s a little scary. You\u2019re like, \u2018Wait guys, what are we doing?\u2019 and sort of [are] feeling a little isolated or scared. And I think it\u2019s a lot about that, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI Love L.A. premiered Sunday night on HBO. New episodes air Sundays at 10:30 p.m. ET\/PT on HBO and HBO Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In her Gen Z hangout comedy I Love L.A., Rachel Sennott lovingly holds a mirror up to the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,5560,2961,224,5337,100711],"class_list":{"0":"post-351851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-hbo","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-rachel-sennott"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115483954119703178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}