Lena Dunham’s memoirs Longing for fame It comes out on Tuesday, and the writer and actress has been teasing some surprising revelations in various interviews.
Creator of HBO girls And Netflix too much The memoir details how she became a TV star aged just 25, as well as being subjected to intense criticism about her body and thoughts, suffering from widespread health issues and meeting her now-husband, Louis Felber, after moving to London about five years ago.
In a piece with The Guardian Released over the weekend, Dunham explains the feeling as if she and her girls The co-stars — including Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet — were “lambs to the slaughter” when the series was released in 2012. Dunham, now 39, says she quickly learned the dangers of reading what people were saying on social media. “I’m one of the many examples they have of why [can happen] “There’s a sense that people learn how useful vulnerability is and how much it’s not,” she says. “And I didn’t have any of that. I had no sense of even simple things like posture, or style, or how to show your body, or how to show your face.”
The Guardian He describes “two central ones The love stories in the book.” One is with Jack Antonoff, the famous independent artist and music producer who recently collaborated with Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter, and is now married to Margaret Qualley. The couple dated and lived together for five years until 2017. Dunham explores the deterioration of that relationship, such as his delay in arriving at the hospital after she underwent a grueling hysterectomy, following a battle with endometriosis.
The other relationship is explored in Longing for fame is a troubled Dunham team with Jenny Konner, her former producing partner who was assigned to Dunham by HBO as a mentor when she first started working. girls. “My female relationships have always been very deep, very complex, and very romantic,” Dunham says. The Guardian.
Among some of the most shocking excerpts from Longing for fame is Dunham’s recounting of working with Oscar-nominated Adam Driver girls Fans will know that he played Adam Sackler, Hannah Horvath’s on-off lover, throughout all six seasons of the show.
He was described in the interview as “amazingly rude to her,” according to Dunham’s book, at one point throwing a chair against the wall next to her, punching a hole in the wall of his trailer and yelling at her. “At the time, I didn’t have the skill…it never occurred to me to say, ‘I’m your boss, you can’t talk to me like that,'” Dunham says. “And at that point in my twenties, I still thought that’s what great male geniuses do: eviscerate you. Which is weird, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that.”
“I have a lot of wonderful men in my life,” she continues. “quality [Apatow] He is a great hero of mine. Tim Bevan at Working Title is a big part of my life and so is cinematographer Sam Levy. I just worked with Mark Ruffalo, the most beautiful, sensitive, politically engaged person. There are a lot of them walking around. But there were years when I thought: Can’t I make things that only contain women?
Among some of the lighter moments are the fact that Dunham has been “in a great place for more than half a decade” now and her appreciation for how British women are aging. “They tend to get more eccentric as they get older,” she says. “And it’s not just artistic people. There’s a woman you see walking her dog on the road in the countryside in funny shoes.” “It’s very different in New York, where I feel like I grew up with women who had a lot of interest in aging. It’s really nice to grow old with… [the British model] “As an influence.”
Hollywood Reporter I contacted a representative for the driver.
