Lena Dunham is aware of “Girls” has its flaws.
The actress and producer, 39, addressed the shortage of range on her hit HBO sequence in a brand new interview with The Unbiased.
“I think one of the profound issues around ‘Girls’ was that there was so little real estate for women in television [then] that if you had a show called ‘Girls,’ which is such a monolithic name, it sounds like it’s describing all the girls in all the places,” Dunham defined.
“And so if it’s not reflecting a multitude of experiences, I understand how that would be really disappointing to people,” she added.
Dunham was the mastermind behind “Girls,” which adopted a bunch of 4 younger girls (performed by Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet) who stay in New York.
The sequence, which starred principally white actors, ran from 2012 to 2017.
Dunham advised The Unbiased that she “favored the dialog round ‘Girls’” because it was important to have, and now she’s used these classes on her new Netflix sequence, “Too Much,” that has a extra various solid.
“The thing I have really come to believe is that one of the most important things is not just diversity in front of the camera, but it’s diversity behind the camera,” Dunham mentioned.
“As a producer, one of my goals is to bring a lot of different voices into a position where they can tell their story,” she shared.
Dunham beforehand defended “Girls” from its critics the yr it got here out.
“I am a half-Jew, half-WASP, and I wrote two Jews and two WASPs,” she advised NPR’s “Fresh Air” in 2012. “Something I wanted to avoid was tokenism in casting.”
She continued: “If I had one of the four girls — if, for example, she was African American, I feel like, not that the experience of an African American girl and a white girl are drastically different, but there has to be specificity to that experience [that] I wasn’t able to speak to.”
In a latest interview with The Instances, Dunham spoke about how she took an “international break” from performing after “Girls” ended.
“I didn’t really understand how to distinguish between what was and wasn’t necessary for the public. I felt confused about how I was supposed to respond,” she recalled. “I thought if I explain properly who I am, or give a glimpse of who I am, people are going to have a different perception of me, that we would be friends. But no one cares — and that’s fine.”
“I always joke 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 joked, including, “And all I got was this lousy PTSD.”
