Lena Dunham Looking back on how she navigated on her ”Girls“Fame – mistakes and everything.
According to the Creator, the challenges led with her sudden rise and the media’s response partly to her “break” from the public eye (including as an actor on the screen) after packing the iconic HBO series.
Dunham led “Girls” as Hannah, a millennial Brooklynite writer whose romantic looters made comparisons with Carrie Bradshaw. The subversive comedy series didn’t just put hipsters and Williamsburg on cable TV But also Dunham marked as “the voice for a generation”, as her character would say. However, the series was tormented by criticism for not being racist diverse, and the personal life of the role led to the public provided they played versions of themselves on the screen.
As a result of her new show “Too Much” premiere on Netflix this month, Dunham said Dunham The times That after six seasons of “Girls”, which was broadcast from 2012 to 2017, she chose to stay away from the limelight as an actor and creator. “I always joke that I need a t-shirt saying: ‘I survived New York Media 2012 and all I got was this miserable t-shirt.’ And all I got was this miserable PTSD, ”Dunham said.
The “Tiny Furniture” movie added, “I didn’t really understand how I would distinguish between what was and was not necessary for the public. I felt confused about how I would answer,” she said. “I thought that if I explain properly who I am, or give a glimpse of who I am, people will have a different view of me, that we would be friends. But no one cares – and that’s good.”
Dunham explained that leaving “Cocoon of the Show” led to her having a sharp awakening with her career “suddenly happens at a speed that was overwhelming.” She said, “It was a painful metamorphosis. I definitely took a deliberate break (from public life).”
Her first project after “Girls” was HBO’s “Camping”, which she collaborated with her “Girls” workers Jenni Konner, 2018, but Dunham did not show up in the show. Her next role on the screen came with a small part of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” before directing her next feature, “Sharp Stick”, where Dunham played together.
Dunham will soon be back on the screen with its semi-autobiographical Netflix series “Too Much.” Still, it was a tough decision to return to the screen. Dunham told New Yorker That she was initially skeptical of the lead role in the series; Instead, she is shown in a supportive role.
“I was not willing to have another experience like what I had experienced about” girls “at this time in my life,” she said. “Physically, I was just not about getting my body dissected again. It was a difficult choice, not to throw (Megan stalter at the forefront) – because I knew I wanted Meg – but to admit that I would just protect yourself.
“Too much” premieres on Netflix July 10.
