Andrew Rannells on Miss You, Love You and Dunham's Memoir
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- Rannells stars opposite Allison Janney in Miss You, Love You, playing a personal assistant helping her recently widowed character through the weeks after her husband's death from Parkinson's in Albuquerque
- Rannells met partner Tuc Watkins on the 2018 Broadway revival of The Boys in the Band; their first kiss was in character, and they began dating a year later when the cast reconvened for Ryan Murphy's Netflix adaptation
- The Book of Mormon earned Rannells a Tony nomination for originating Elder Price in its 2011 Broadway run, which led to Lena Dunham casting him in HBO's Girls as Elijah
- Rannells came out to his parents at 19 before leaving Omaha for drama school; his father initially said 'I don't think you have to be this way, but I love you' before later apologizing and telling him 'you've always been this way'
- Rannells' 2019 memoir Too Much Is Not Enough revealed in a chapter entitled 'It's Never the Priest You Want to Kiss' that he was sexually assaulted as a teenager by a Catholic priest
- Rannells wrote and directed the Modern Love episode 'How Do You Remember Me?' for Amazon, inspired by his essay about being consoled by a near-stranger after his father's sudden coma and death at 22
- Rannells said reading Dunham's memoir Famesick was 'hard to read' as someone close to her now, conceding he saw 'the fun, exciting part' of Girls while she experienced behind-the-scenes difficulties — then joked 'why didn't she talk about me more?'
Why it matters: Rannells' promotion of Miss You, Love You doubles as a candid on-record read from a Girls alumnus about Dunham's memoir Famesick. His admission that he 'let a lot of shit slide' during filming — and his joke about wanting more pages in the book — makes this a rare insider voice in the post-Famesick conversation around the show.
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