Lena Dunham was once at the height of popularity with her show Girls. The HBO hit focused on four friends living in New York City and starred Dunham as Hannah, a girl with a messy love life who was trying to navigate being the best person she could be. While also falling in love with Adam (Adam Driver). When the show came to an end in 2017, Dunham slowly faded into the background and took a break from being in front of the camera. Now, with her new Netflix series Too Much coming out later this month, she spoke candidly about why she took a break.
Dunham was speaking with The Times about feeling lost when Girls ended. “When the show ended, I didn’t know what direction to move in. I wasn’t young enough to be out and feeling fun and free,” she said. She then went on to say that she felt stuck in the city that she grew up in and that she “didn’t know how to mature” or “how to grow up” there. At the time, Dunham was also dealing with an addition to her anxiety medication and the pain from endometriosis. But she told PEOPLE at a different time that “getting sober changed my life.”
Dunham said that because she’d been making Girls at such a young age, she hadn’t been able to grow and mature and it happened all at once when the show came to an end. “I felt like all the maturing and changing that had been kept at bay by the experience of being in that cocoon of [Girls] was suddenly happening at a speed that was overwhelming,” Dunham said. “It was a painful metamorphosis.”
It Led to An Intentional Step Back for Lena Dunham
Dunham then told The Times that she “definitely took an intentional break” post the series. “I always joke that I need a T-shirt that says, ‘I survived New York media in 2012 and all I got was this lousy T-shirt’ — and all I got was this lousy PTSD,” she said. She also spoke with PEOPLE about how much she’s grown since the show’s conclusion and how she is “so lucky” and that the last few years have been “the most peaceful of my life.” Currently, Dunham is getting ready for Too Much to be released, a semi-autobiographical series starring Megan Stalter that Dunham co-created with her husband, Luis Feiber.
You can see the new series on Netflix.
source: The Times