Lena Dunham
A Conversation with Lena Dunham, Creator and Star of HBO’s Girls
On this Memorial Day, we’re revisiting some of our favorite Takeaway interviews from the last year, like our conversation back in April with Lena Dunham, creator and star of the hit series Girls. We spoke with Lena when her show had just hit HBO. Since, Girls has taken off in popularity, but not without its fair […]
The All-White World of ‘Girls’
“Girls,” written by and starring Lena Dunham, was initially the subject of overwhelming praise for telling the story of twenty-something New York females in a new way. Media outlets scrambled to nail down a Dunham interview. And we were lucky to be one of the shows to talk with her. But in the two weeks […]
Lena Dunham Represents Her Generation with ‘Girls’
More than any other medium, the characters we see on television reflect and represent who we are – with some exaggeration, of course. In the 1970s, though we might not have agreed with Archie Bunker of “All in the Family,” we certainly recognized his struggles. In the 1990s, though their apartments seemed much too big for their […]