, if it was a drug-fueled workplace drama with a pilot directed by, you should know that the real meat of whathas in common with Dunham's breakout series is that it focuses on a group of twenty-somethings caught in that uncomfortable liminal space between university and true adulthood. That's part of what drew Herrold to the role of Harper in the first place.
Herrold, who is 24, said that she and Harper, who is supposed to be a year younger, have just a couple things in common."Maybe I'm a bit like Harper, I don't really go out," she joked—though in real life, she is perhaps more bubbly than her fictional counterpart., the mostly confusing nature of dating app culture and stranger in a strange land loneliness are teased out through the character of Harper."The app business resonated with me," Herrold admitted.
Herrold got her start in community theater in San Jose, California when she was six years old."My mom loves to say that I came out of the womb singing, which is a strange image," she joked. She then went to Carnegie Mellon and studied musical theater, and assumed she would be on stage after she graduated."I always thought actually, and everyone else thought, 'You're going to go do Broadway. You're going to do plays, you're going to sing.
."Harper's experience with that and mine were completely aligned and we sort of became more and more comfortable as the series went on alongside each other. It was actually my first time ever out of the U.S. when I went to go do that show," she explained. Luckily, she and the cast clicked almost instantly."I felt very close to my cast. Sometimes I felt a little different, or sometimes I felt like left out because I didn't understand jokes or like the slang or the pop culture references. But they really took me in—I kind of forced them to cause I was like, I need friends! I'm alone and I can't go home!" she said with a laugh."But we all got on so quick, so hard, so fast.