Lena Dunham Addressed The Criticisms Around The "Disappointing" Lack Of Diversity In "Girls"

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"The happening I person truly travel to judge is that 1 of the astir important things is not conscionable diverseness successful beforehand of the camera, but it's diverseness down the camera."

Girls was 1 of the definitive TV shows of the 2010s. People are inactive rewatching it to this precise day, and erstwhile the Lena Dunham-created TV amusement primitively was connected the aerial (from 2012 to 2017), it generated a lot of discussion.

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One peculiar disapproval the amusement faced aboriginal connected was that its 4 leads — Lena, Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, and Jemima Kirke — were each white.

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Lena has a caller amusement — the Meg Stalter-starring Too Much — premiering connected Netflix connected July 10, and successful a caller interrogation with The Independent, she reflected connected the diverseness criticisms that Girls faced erstwhile it was primitively connected the air.

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"I deliberation 1 of the profound issues astir Girls," she said, "was that determination was truthful small existent property for women successful tv [then] that if you had a amusement called Girls, which is specified a monolithic name, it sounds similar it's describing each the girls successful each the places."

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"And truthful if it's not reflecting a multitude of experiences, I recognize however that would beryllium truly disappointing to people."

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In the interview, Lena besides said that she "liked the conversation" astir Girls, and that it yet informed her attack to diverseness connected projects similar Too Much.

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"The happening I person truly travel to judge is that 1 of the astir important things is not conscionable diverseness successful beforehand of the camera, but it's diverseness down the camera," she said. "As a producer, 1 of my goals is to bring a batch of antithetic voices into a presumption wherever they tin archer their story."

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