The Princess Bride’s Cary Elwes joins Lena Dunham’s Max
It looks like Max, the new HBO comedy pilot about second-wave feminism created by Lena Dunham, has cast one of the most important roles in any story about feminism: the man. That comes from Deadline, which says the reportedly “raucous comedy” has cast noted man Cary Elwes to play said man. Max stars Zoe Kazan as “an ambitious magazine writer” named Maxine Woodruff who inadvertently finds herself wrapped up in the second-wave feminism movement in 1963. Elwes will play Max’s editor (meaning he’s in a position of power and is also therefore “The Man”), with HBO also hiring Reno 911!’s Mary Birdsong to play the magazine’s only other female writer.