Coming of Age with Lena Dunham

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re joined by Lena Dunham! We start by discussing her new film, Sharp Stick (6:20), the 1970s cinema that inspired it (9:50), and how it offers a “three-way mirror” to the female experience (12:41). Then, Lena reflects on meeting Judd Apatow on the heels of Tiny Furniture (15:39), her rapid ascension following Girls (17:39), the pain and power of grappling with OCD on the show (23:11), the genius of season five’s “The Panic in Central Park” (29:35), and how she’s continued to learn from public criticisms (35:27).

On the back-half, we sit with the end of Girls (43:59), the aftermath of that decade (49:57), the new creative path Lena had to forge (55:46), the prophetic presence of her father (1:00:27), the inspiration that is her mother (1:01:47), and the dreams she has for the years ahead—on the screen, and off (1:06:54).

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Sam. If you enjoy our interviews with writers and artists on Talk Easy,
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0:44.8	missing pages on Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen. Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam Forgoso.
1:15.0	Welcome to the show. Today I'm joined by actor, writer, director, Lena Dunum. From 2012 through 2017, Dunum served as the creator and
1:38.0	star of the hit HBO series, Girls. She's now returned with a new film called Sharpstick, her first
1:45.7	directorial effort in over a decade. The film charts the sexual
1:50.2	awakening of Sarah Joe, a Virginal 26-year-old whose life is upended upon entering an affair with her older employer.
1:58.8	Here's a clip from the film Sharpstick starring Christine Frozeth Taylor Page Jennifer Jason Lee and
2:05.8	John Berthall.
2:08.8	Two people having sex together.
2:14.0	Mom always says love can either be created nor destroyed.
2:21.0	But I have my heartbroken.
2:25.0	You see, I'm not someone who was destined to find love,
2:28.0	so when it appears in my path,
2:30.0	I have to take it. Do you even get crushes? Not really. I feel like I was born with a crush. I was like in the nursery crushing on a fetus.
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