Lena Dunham Explained Why She Took An “Interactional Break” from Acting After Her HBO Series Girls Came to an end in 2017. Speaking to The TimesDunham Said She Stepped Back from Public Life After Facing Backlash For A Series of Controversies.
“I Didn'T Really Understand How To Distinguish Beteween What was and Wasn't necessary for the Public,” She Said. “The felt confused about How I was supposed to respond. I Thought If I Explain Properly WHO I AM, OR GIVE A GLIMPS OF WHO I AM, People are going to have a different perception of me, that we wish be friends. But no one cares – and that's fine.”
During GirlsWhich Ran for Six Seasons From 2012 to 2017, Dunham Faced Backlash for the Show's Frank Depitration of Sex, Nudity, and Abortion, But Also for Her Public Comments About the Series. She Once Said in An Interview That While She Had Never Had An ABORATION HAD WISHED SHE HAD. She Defended the Girls'Writer Murray Millar After He Was Accused of Sexual Assault. “The Always Jake That I Need a T-shirt that Says, 'I survived New York Media in 2012 and all I Got was this Lousy T-shirt,'” Dunham Said. “And all I Got was this Lousy Ptsd.”
After the Show Ended, Dunham Became Addicted to prescription Anxied Medication. She Told the Times That “Had a Lot to do with manager My Physical Pain.” She Also Went to rehab.
“Felt like All the Maturing and Changing That Had Been Kept at Bay by the Experience of Being in that Cocoon of the Show was divising at a speed that was overwhelming,” She Said. “It was a painful metamorphosis. I Definithery Took an intentional break [from public life]”.”
Dunham's New Show, Too MuchPremieres on Netflix On July 10. It Stars Meg Stalter As a New Yorker Named Jessica Who moves to London After a breakup. She Son Begins A Relationship with Quirky Indie Musician Felix, Played by Will Sharpe. The show was co-created by Dunham, Who Plays Jessica's Sister, and Her Real-Life Musician Husband Luis Felber. It has a More romantic vibe than Girlswhich dunham told The Times Was Purposeful.
“That was clearly a reflection of How I Saw My Twenties,” Dunham Explained of Girls. “It's interesting – When I am Reminded of the Seasons [of Girls]I can see what i was thinking, what place i was in, when i was foul in love, when i was in pain. It's all in there. I Also Felt in My Twenties There Was Something Embarrassing About Writing Things That Were Saccharine Or Sincere or Happy. I Was Much More Interested in Irony and Satire and Harshness and Surprising and Sometimes Scandalising People. I Felt like I Needed to reflect the toughest waits of life back to People So that they would feel less halo. And now i Think Maybe You can reflect the Sweeter Parts of Life to People So They Can Feel Hopeful. “
Elsewhere in the Interview, Dunham Reflected on Her Friendship with Taylor Swift, Who She Described As a Role Model. “She's a Mind-Blowing Person,” Dunham Said. “The Think She's Extraordinarily Well Adjusted and Emotionally intuitive. And It's Really Amazing For Young Women to See that in the Front of Them.”
In 2017, Dunham Told Rolling Stone That She was inspired by Swift's Ability to Navigate Being in the Public Eye. “Felt Young When My Career Started and I was 23, 24,” Dunham Said. “When I Met Her, She Was Newly 22, And She was a Fucking Seasoned Pro at this Stuff. Watching The Way This She Undersands The Vicissitudes of the Cycle, and She Just Keps Making Her Work, – That's Just Really Impressive to Me. That's How to Live My Life, Which is not as a slave to public opinion, but Just as Somebody Who continues to make Things. “
She Continued, “She's Truly Just An Artist Whi Has To Make Things to Survive. I Guess That's What We Have Most in Common. And She's Never Not Making Music. IF People Know About It OR ORY Don't, She's Never not Making Music, and That's Like, Something That I'Ve Really Watched with a Lot of Admiration. Because She's Been Put Through The Wringer, and She's Continued to Make Her Work. People Who Understand How To Protect Themselves But Aren't SO Beaten Down That Thry Can't Be Creative – That to Me is the Greatest. “
