Lena Dunham

Yes.

Sometimes I forget that she's not just like a character, you know, because she seems like someone like Lena Dunham would have written or like Alana Glazer.

Yeah.

We say it all the time.

Beneath them, the sections carry the titles of episodes of girls, all of them.

Lena Dunham has written 400 pages about what public life did to her body and she has filed that story under the index of the television show that made her public.

Almost every review of this book has arrived at the same complaint, which is that she does not take enough responsibility for what she describes.

Nobody seems to have looked at the contents page.

So anyway, but consequently, Slamdance kind of has stuck to our mantra of showing first-time directors with low budgets and no distribution.

And we've shown the first films of everyone from Christopher Nolan, Rian Johnson, Bong Joon-ho, the Russo brothers, the Safdie brothers, Lena Dunham, the late Lynn Shelton, Sean Baker.

You know, it's a pretty amazing list of filmmakers whose first films we showed.

These are just for people who don't know.

I wanted to bring up something that makes me feel like an annoying pedantic person, but it like drives me crazy.

Where do you land on Lena Dunham? Because she's like been back in the press and everything and she's like wanted to address in her book about the Nepo baby stuff.

I never considered her a Nepo baby because her parents were in like visual studio arts and she went into entertainment.

I consider her like extremely privileged and that's certainly... helped her get to where she is but like those are different i i think yeah

yeah absolutely i think looking back on the nepo baby discourse with lena dunham is like wow we were really inflating the role of the studio artist in today's society in a way that almost feels like kind of nice it's like wow we really thought her parents were like extremely powerful um and they're excellent artists and i think she's quite clear about like the I think it's kind of ludicrous to call her one, but I also think it's like so taken hold with the cast of girls that they were in all in different ways, all four of them, some kind of industry baby that I don't think like my brain knows how to divorce her from that particular discourse.

But like she definitely isn't really one and neither really is Jemima Kirk.

Right.

into it.

I read Lena Dunham's Famesick recently.

I

listened to it and I liked it a lot.

We are going to talk about women who've been called crazy by sifting through the cultural trash heap of history one rumor at a time.

I'm self-combusting supernova Lena Dunham.

And I'm Alyssa Bennett, historian of

bad behavior.

It was clear to everyone that she was going to be a star.

You couldn't look at this little performance and not know that this was a child that had been polished to gleam.

Like you, Lena.

Number three.

There's lots of room for that.

Um, I also loved Lena Dunham's memoir, Fame Sick, which I also listened to as an audiobook.

Fame Sick.

Um, going on a lot of long walks, and it's just very honest about, like, work and fame and being young.