Interview: Lena Dunham (Catherine Called Birdy)
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
After some deliberate time away from the spotlight, and then some pandemic delays, Dunham has two films out this year— and the latest, Catherine Called Birdy, is the YA book adaptation she's wanted to make for a decade, but only really could have made now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | It's such an honor to present this next award. |
| 0:08.0 | And here are the nominees. |
| 0:10.0 | The Oscar goes to. |
| 0:12.0 | And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:14.0 | And I can't deny the fact that you like me. |
| 0:17.0 | Right now. |
| 0:18.0 | You like me. |
| 0:19.0 | On the King of the World. |
| 0:21.0 | There's a mistake. |
| 0:23.0 | Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. |
| 0:30.0 | I am Katie Rich and I'm here by myself today to introduce an interview that I did with Lena Dunham. |
| 0:42.0 | And if you think, oh, that's a name I haven't heard in a while, that's a little bit on purpose. |
| 0:46.0 | She of course created girls and she was in her early 20s. |
| 0:49.0 | I was very, very famous for a long time. |
| 0:51.0 | And then took what she described as a really deliberate break and was getting ready to make her new film Catherine called birdie just as |
| 0:58.0 | a little global pandemic hit. |
| 1:01.0 | And it kind of changed the way that she made the movie and made it so that now. |
| 1:04.0 | In 2022, she's actually up with two films. |
| 1:07.0 | She has Catherine called birdie as well as Sharp Stick, which debuted at Sundance. |
| 1:10.0 | But Catherine called birdie is coming out now via Amazon Prime Video. |
| 1:15.0 | It also premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. |
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