Cummings praises Greta Gerwig's character in the Noah Baumbach film: "I think this is another version of another very authentic person, a character that I really feel like I know, or I've been friends with, or I've been. And the character has fear; she's afraid of change, and she was afraid of her friend leaving her, and I can walk into that because I'm constantly terrified all day. My friends are pregnant, and they're getting married, and they're moving away, and they're busy. That never goes away. I also love that it's between two girls because — and this is Michael Patrick King and I when we were doing 2 Broke Girls — we made a very conscious choice about a friendship because I don't think it's fair. I felt like in every show it was painting this picture — I mean, Twilight was really big at the time, and it was painting a portrait of this girl, who, the only thing she cared about was a guy. I'm like, 'That's not how women are!' I feel like women are being painted as these obsessive psychos where the only thing they think about is a man. My girlfriends are starting businesses, they have websites, they're writing books, they have goals that don't involve men. I really like that there's a movie that's not about a girl losing her mind over a guy because that's just not how it is anymore. So that felt really fresh to me."
