From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.

My guest, writer-director, actress, Lena Dunham, has been known by names as

Una and Aura in her film Tiny Furniture. First of all, Leah, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you so much for having me. It's very, very exciting. And the film was quite a sensation

at this year's South by Southwest. But before we start talking about the film, I love these sort of slightly art damaged names that you give all your characters.

I can't stop. It's really funny because the first movie I ever made, I've calculated all the names I call, and I've never given myself a name that didn't end with the letter A.

In the first short, I ever made, I was called Georgia. And then I was called Ella, and the first feature I I made and then Una and then Orra. And then now it's the show I'm working on.

I called myself Hannah, which is actually a normal.

It's actually a normal person's name for the first time.

But it's true.

It's like I think it started because I was trying to think of names like what could be a name that was like Lina but different.

Like what would the same person who would call their kid Lena. And what I came up with was so much weirder, I think.

But these names, they feel like the kind of names that sort of bohemian art parents

might give their privileged children.

And also maybe think weren't that weird.

Like you can imagine a parent who would call their child Una or ORA

and not think it was the same kind of thing as calling your daughter Apple, for example.

You know what I mean?

Like, but they're just as subtly off.

And the character Una comes from Delusion of Downtown Divas, the web series, which of which you did two seasons, by the way.

I did.

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