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Lena Dunham: "You learn to isolate yourself from insults"

2022-09-26T12:46:58.953Z


For five years, US director Lena Dunham has been quiet: now she has delivered two new films in a row – and talks about the trauma that her TV series »Girls« caused her.


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Lena Dunham: "Now I'm able to be very proud of my body"

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She became known through her series »Girls«, she played the leading role herself. After that, little was heard from Lena Dunham in the film business.

But some things from her private life: In the 2016 US elections she campaigned for Hillary Clinton – and allegedly received threats.

In 2018, she had her ovaries removed on medical advice – and thus sparked discussions about childlessness.

"There was a while I didn't hear my own voice," Dunham said in an interview with The Guardian.

"My senses were dulled by the experience of being in the world this way."

In 2022 her two films »Catherine Called Birdy« and »Sharp Stick«, two productions about self-discovery as a woman, were released, and thus with a similar basic idea as »Girls«.

Her time as »Girls« main character Hannah Horvath helped shape her self, Dunham says in an interview.

"I stopped being a person I liked." Dunham speaks of a "fear that shaped her femininity."

The public reaction to her naked body in the series "Girls" was "a trauma of its own".

It was then that she learned to “isolate herself from insults”.

Life and the film world are often closely intertwined for US director and actress Lena Durham: In her series »Girls« she played Hannah Horvath, a millennial woman in her mid-twenties on the way to self-discovery, for six seasons.

In an interview, the actress confirmed autobiographical elements even then: she owes the stories to her view of the world.

It developed through the feeling of isolation, as a "chubby teenager" who found it difficult to connect with other young people.

Over the years, she's come to realize that what happened to her "happened to millions of women around the world," Dunham says.

“Now I'm able to be very proud of my body.

I realize how much it cost me to get here."

"Intentionally blind"

According to the Guardian interview, the actress expressed her desire for a comedy like »Catherine Called Birdy« around ten years ago: At that time, according to Dunham, she wanted to make a »film about a medieval child who gets his period«.

At the time, her parents had declared her insane and "intentionally blind."

People, Dunham's parents said, would surely find a reason to be outraged by such a film.

Dunham went through with the project: "I think in order to continue to produce work that is convincing and honest, you have to show a certain blindness," she says in the "Guardian" interview.

“You kind of have to forget that people are going to see that.”

The coming-of-age comedy »Catherine Called Birdly« follows medieval Lady Catherine, a minor who is about to be married off against her will.

It is based on the novel of the same name by Karen Cushman.

The production premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2022.

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Source: spiegel

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