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Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Ep 60: A Conversation With Lena Dunham

Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Monocycle

Arts

4.9779 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode of Monocycle is more like an episode of Bicycle because there are two stakeholders (wheels?) present in the conversation: myself and Lena Dunham. When I set out to interview her, I had a fairly strong sense of what we might talk about, like the evolution of Lenny Letter, life after Girls, New York vs. Los Angeles. What unfolded was a genuinely organic conversation about life, failing and succeeding and how similar they are, self esteem, family and love. While listening back to this episode, I realized it sounds less like a podcast recording and more like an intimate conversation, which, to me, is really the goal of an interview. I very much hope you enjoy the structure as we plan to continue rolling out various interviews over the course of the next couple of months. As always, any and all feedback is welcome, so sock it to me in the comment depository below. Happy birthday, btw!!! (What? It could be...)

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0:00.0

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0:07.4

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0:13.7

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0:19.6

It's also loosely based on the life of the series

0:22.2

creator, Frankie Shaw. Art imitates life once again. Smilf is now streaming on Showtime, but if you go to

0:29.7

Showtime.com and enter the code man repeller, you get two weeks free. That's free. F-R-E-E. The offer's available through December 1st. And now, for Monocicle.

0:50.9

Flying on Halloween feels like a real luxury, like missing Halloween?

0:55.0

Yeah, it's also kind of spooky. I hope your plane is dressed up.

0:59.0

I'm like, this is amazing.

1:01.0

I have a fun Halloween fact that includes aviation. When I met AB, I was dressed as a slutty flight attendant.

1:07.0

That's incredible. Where did you guys meet? Out don't know. I'm saying I don't know,

1:14.5

but I do know very well. At a party in Chelsea that I was not supposed to be at. I was 17 years old.

1:21.4

It's the first and last time I showed that much shoulder and that much leg in the same outfit.

1:27.1

I'm so into this. It was really fun.

1:31.9

Wait, now are you like done, did you have to do, I keep feeling like fashion, whatever it is, is never ending.

1:38.8

Did fashion month end? Yeah, it ended last month, but I was just in L.A. for a CFDA event. It really doesn't end.

1:47.0

Like, if you search hard enough, you can find a fashion week every single week of the year.

1:51.8

But can't you say the same thing about, like, an award season?

1:55.0

I guess you could if you were, like, doing the full award circuit, like, in South Africa Africa in the Middle East like hit in Australia

2:02.6

big time like if you were just really going for it a hundred percent but with the fashion thing

2:08.0

I just feel like everyone's like another fashion week Monday and I'm like I thought that this was

2:13.4

going to stop and that I could return to feeling attractive.

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