The Tamesis
Has writer and filmmaker Lena Dunham made mistakes in her life and career? Of course – she talks about a lot of this in her new memoir, reputation disease (Today from Random House), she examines the realities of living with two long-standing and often misunderstood conditions: illness and reputation.
You should definitely read this memoir for yourself, but as a little diversion, here are the nine most important things I learned from Dunham’s new book.
Greta Gerwig’s Frances Ha and Dunham’s Hannah Horvath mentally inhabit the same multiverse
Not only did Dunham and Gerwig run in the same circles in downtown New York as the Safdie Brothers’ Red Bucket Collective during their early filmmaking days, but Dunham also frequently ran with Future Barbie director. But the connection doesn’t stop there: Dunham recalls in her book the final scene of Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s film Francis Ha It was filmed in the Brooklyn Heights apartment where Dunham eventually lived. “…there was a brief but lovely moment when she put something on my little white table and looked out the window at the garden, making me feel like I had to live there,” Dunham wrote. So, one thing is for sure: if Frances Halliday and Hannah Horvath were undergrads or interns at the same time, they would absolutely love (or hate?) each other!
Dunham’s personal and professional breakup with Janet Conner was one of the most troubling events of her life
Questions about Dunham and her situation have long circulated girls Collaborator Connor dissolved their friendship and multiple creative projects. exist reputation diseaseDunham described the experience in a graceful way that intensified the pain that was clearly not fully processed, recalling Connor’s lack of empathy for Dunham’s struggles with eating disorders and body image while filming girlswho later failed to understand Dunham’s experience with chronic illness and the difficult dynamics surrounding how much both women were paid at one point. Women’s Best Friendships—They Can Be Complicated!
The toxic relationship between Hannah and Adam girls Dunham’s real-life dynamic with Adam Driver reflects this
There have been a lot of reports recently about Driver’s erratic behavior on set. girls, Multiple outlets reported Dunham’s anecdote that Driver threw a chair in her direction while filming a scene. passing by reputation disease,” Dunham recalled, hoping that Driver would have a different ending than her previous one. girls The package reads: “He got out of the car. I stayed there, motionless, wondering if this moment, this reckoning, meant a different future ahead of us. Who knows – maybe I would write a new part for him. We would write new stories. We would laugh at how we were and smile at who we are now. But I never heard from him again.” Wei.
Scott Rudin’s situation is as bad as reported
It was Nora Ephron, who played the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Dunham’s Hollywood rise narrative, who allowed Dunham to move on when Rudin reprimanded her via email for shelving a project she’d been working on for him. Efron’s incredible line on the subject? “Honey, if Scott was a straight man, we’d all fuck him first and then wonder why we did it.”
