As her new film Catherine Called Birdy is released, lenadunham talks to patrick_sproull about her triumphant comeback, her passion for “thorny, complicated women”, and the enduring legacy of Girls ✨
, its tack-sharp depiction of early twenties solipsism ageing impeccably, but Dunham was notably a lightning rod for criticism and controversy throughout the 2010s. She took a hiatus afterended in 2017 and, amid a series of personal and health challenges, spent the time “planting seeds” for her second and third films., adapted from Karen Cushman’s YA novel, aSharp Stick
Lena Dunham: Yes, I did. They’re non-identical twins and they have some things in common and sometimes they’re reacting against each other. “My passion for thorny or bratty or unlikeable or complicated women, women who behave badly, has probably a lot to do with having readObviously, she must have really shaped the way I think about female characters because I read that book over and over and over again. My passion for thorny or bratty or unlikeable or complicated women, women who behave badly, has probably a lot to do with having read the book so young.
Lena Dunham: It was. I had a cameo in a fantasy sequence that was ultimately cut from the movie and that wasn’t a big part. There was something really nice about just not physically being in that world at all. I really likedand getting to exist on the periphery. I had a great time being in that movie, but I realised what a joy it was to just completely remove myself from that aspect of it.
Lena Dunham: I think there’s something about adaptation that really frees you. What I like about fiction is that you can hide your experience inside of someone else’s imagined experience. What I like about adaptation is you can hide your emotions and your message and embed it in someone else’s story, and you’re in this really interesting dialogue with what they’ve created. So, I can see myself doing more of it.
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