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    Lena Dunham Took an ‘Intentional Break’ from Public Life Submit-‘Ladies’: ‘I Felt Confused’ After Media Backlash

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    Lena Dunham Took an ‘Intentional Break’ from Public Life Submit-‘Ladies’: ‘I Felt Confused’ After Media Backlash
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    Lena Dunham is trying again on how she navigated her “Ladies” fame — missteps and all.

    In line with the creator, the challenges of her sudden rise and the media’s response led partly to her “break” from the general public eye (together with as an onscreen actor) after wrapping the long-lasting HBO collection.

    Dunham led “Ladies” as Hannah, a millennial Brooklynite would-be author whose romantic ploys drew comparisons to Carrie Bradshaw. The subversive comedy collection not solely put hipsters and Williamsburg on cable TV but in addition marked Dunham because the “voice of a technology,” as her character would say. Nevertheless, the collection was plagued with criticisms for not being racially various, and the solid’s private lives led to the general public assuming they had been enjoying variations of themselves onscreen.

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    Within the lead-up to her new present “Too A lot” premiering on Netflix this month, Dunham advised The Occasions that after six seasons of “Ladies,” which aired from 2012 to 2017, she opted to remain out of the highlight as an actor and creator. “I all the time joke that I would like a T-shirt that claims, ‘I survived New York media in 2012 and all I received was this awful T-shirt.’ And all I received was this awful PTSD,” Dunham mentioned.

    The “Tiny Furnishings” filmmaker added, “I didn’t actually perceive find out how to distinguish between what was and wasn’t vital for the general public. I felt confused about how I used to be supposed to reply,” she mentioned. “I assumed if I clarify correctly who I’m, or give a glimpse of who I’m, individuals are going to have a special notion of me, that we might be buddies. However nobody cares — and that’s high quality.”

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    Dunham defined that leaving the “cocoon of the present” led her to have a stark awakening together with her profession “all of a sudden occurring at a pace that was overwhelming.” She mentioned, “It was a painful metamorphosis. I positively took an intentional break [from public life].”

    Her first mission after “Ladies” was HBO’s “Tenting,” which she co-created together with her “Ladies” collaborator Jenni Konner, in 2018, however Dunham didn’t seem within the present. Her subsequent onscreen position got here with a small half in Quentin Tarantino’s “As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood” earlier than directing her subsequent characteristic, “Sharp Stick,” through which Dunham co-starred.

    Dunham will quickly be again onscreen together with her semi-autobiographical Netflix collection “Too A lot.” But it was a troublesome resolution to return to the display screen. Dunham advised The New Yorker that initially she was skeptical about starring within the collection; as an alternative, she seems in a supporting position.

    “I used to be not keen to have one other expertise like what I’d skilled round ‘Ladies’ at this level in my life,” she mentioned. “Bodily, I used to be simply not up for having my physique dissected once more. It was a tough selection, to not solid [Megan Stalter in the lead] — as a result of I knew I needed Meg — however to confess that to myself. I used to suppose that profitable meant you simply maintain doing it and also you don’t care what anyone thinks. I forgot that profitable is definitely simply defending your self and doing what you could do to maintain making work.”

    “Too A lot” premieres on Netflix July 10.

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