Lena Dunham was not shocked by Maga’s rise because of the “girls” of the counterpoup
When created on HBO in 2012, Lena Dunham Girls – About the tests and tribulations of a team of privileged and often self-prirmed friends in New York- was the speech of the city, the subject of many reflections, criticisms and praise before becoming a seminal series and a stand-in for possible for for Sex and city For the millennium woman.
Although the designer and star of the dramatic twice a winner of an Emmy previously recognized some of the traps of the show, namely her lack of diversity, Dunham recently addressed another type of reward that she was confronted as a Girls was in the air.
“I have always been partially listening to what people said,” said Dunham in a recent episode of Rewatch girls podcast. “I knew enough to know in a way the direction it was going – it was impossible to ignore – and I knew that people would tell me what it meant for them, but I also knew that there were angry people.”
The creator of Netflix who has just done Too much explained that a large part of anger came from alt-red circles. Indeed, part of the reaction to Girls Includes comments from body shame and viewers, which Dunham has discussed in the past.
“There were so many people who, when the voices of – don’t matter as we want to call him – really alt -right, or Maga, or conservative voices, proud boys or everything that started to get up, and people were like:” I am so shocked by the way people speak “. I said to myself, “I’m not,” she said. “These voices were in a section of the comments; I lived these voices in 2012 in the way in which there was so much anger, apparently men and certain women dissecting the show in these incredibly conservative terms.”
With this, however, Dunham recognizes and accepts the criticisms of the public who found the lives of the girls holding the program “Dinint and absurd” despite the series aimed at satire partially “a certain type of upper middle class, mobile reality up”.
“There were people in Brooklyn who found us irritating or liberal people who challenged access to the show, and I always had much more respect for that,” said Dunham, “but there was also a large contingent of conservative people considering almost as proof of a certain type of decrepitude of morality, and also of the surprise of our people, which was really interesting. Or 2018 because it didn’t seem to me a surprise. »»
Thinking about this, Dunham also said that she thought the series came at a time when there was a narrow “window” of opportunity to make subversive or risky television, which she quickly referred to Donald Trump’s first era.
