“Vanderpump Rules” Season 10 revealed the explosive affair between co-stars Tom Sandoval and Rachel Leviss; Sandoval’s ex Ariana Madix confronted both cast members during the Season 10 reunion in 2023. The episode was Emmy-nominated.

In her dream casting, Dunham saw Andrew Scott taking on the role of Sandoval and Jennifer Lawrence playing Madix, delivering their dialogue as if it were scripted by the Bard himself. “I want to take these words and direct them like it’s really serious theater,” she said.

On the latest episode of the Shut Up Evan podcast, Dunham told host Evan Ross Katz that she actually tried to coordinate a reenactment of the post-Scandoval Vanderpump reunion. Sh

Lena Dunham was so into the Vanderpump Rules "Scandoval" cheating scandal that she reached out to Andy Cohen with a pitch for a "really serious" dramatic take on it -- and even had her dream cast lined up.

We should basically create like a mini movie in which actors treat this as canon and get up and perform it with all the passion and virtuosity of Shakespeare,” said Dunham on the Shut Up Evan podcast.