Lena Dunham - Martyr
Lena Dunham - Martyr
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#1Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/12/14 at 5:06pm
Lena Dunham has decided to join the Mara Wilson club.
"I don't know if I'm going to want to act anymore. I'm always relieved on the days I don't have to. I'd rather give parts to other women than be the woman having the parts," the Golden Globe-winning 27-year-old said in the April issue of Glamour, which hits newsstands March 18."
"The world is ready to see Adam as a million different men -- playing good guys and bad guys and sweet guys and scary guys. The world is ready to see Adam do all that. It's not ready to see Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet or Jemima Kirke stretch their legs in the same variety of diverse roles. ... And this is not a knock on Adam's talent.... It's a knock on a world where women are typecast and men can play villains, Lotharios and nerds in one calendar year and something has to change and I'm trying."
Maybe Zosia should have her father write her a couple of roles.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#2Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/12/14 at 6:07pmShe has a point.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#2Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/12/14 at 6:10pmI just think none of the actresses she alluded to can.. act?
#3Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/12/14 at 6:14pmIt would be no great loss if she never acted again--she's passable, but her talents lie elsewhere.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#4Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/12/14 at 6:23pm
Lena Dunham can't act. Her character in Tiny Furniture is exactly the same as Hannah in Girls. Allison Williams is the only one with any formal acting training, and it shows. No loss.
Adam Driver is engaging and his performances in Man and Boy & Look Back In Anger were excellent. He can actually act. That's the difference. It has nothing to do with gender.
#5Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/12/14 at 7:36pm
I like Zosia Mamet. People forget her character on Mad Men was worlds apart from Shoshanna.
Dunham behind the camera, as a writer yes but as a director I actually see even more promise, is more interesting than in front of the camera, personally.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#6Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/12/14 at 8:46pmI know she is a feminist but the recent SNL sketch she was in was embarrassing. Whoever wrote that sketch came from the sledgehammer school of writing. Imagine that sketch with all men and just one woman . Imagine her berated as the guy was in the sketch. The outcry from various groups would have flooded NBC with calls. It is only a man being shamed so I guess it is funny. From what I have heard, the sketch was not greeted with guffaws and peals of laughter. It was polite applause at best.
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#7Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/12/14 at 8:47pm
I like Lena, even if I don't particularly like her interviews (I wish HBO would interview more people in their Girls : Inside the Episode online feature and not just her for every episode.) Yes, I honestly find her appealing in Girls, and Tiny Furniture. But she has shown zero evidence of being able to play anyone but a heightened version of herself, and I think this simply shows that she's aware of that. I agree with Strummer that she's more interesting as a writer, anyway (even if, again, I'm not sure how long she can riff on essentially the same thing--but it's worked for many others, so who knows.)
THAT said, her Blonde, bizarre fetishwear-sporting, kept-wife alter ego shown in last week's episode was beyond brilliantly hilarious. One of the best things she's ever done on screen. Of course it was basically her doing a bad job at trying to act like someone else, which proves my (and her) point, but...
Zosia has a lot of talent, I think. Jemima Kirk too. I think it's unfair to imply they aren't talented, especially based on one role (OK the same goes for Williams who I admit is the one actress out of the three I unfairly see as being maybe the most like her character from interviews.) I think her point is valid, though it could have been said without using Adam Driver as the example to contrast them--his stage work aside, he's had to work hard to get past type casting due to his appearance.
#8Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/12/14 at 9:20pmEric, what type is he?
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#9Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/12/14 at 10:48pmGood call. I dunno, for me he's been cast as an awkward/attractive but not leading-man-material type. Is that a type?
#10Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/13/14 at 12:37amHe's your typical Juilliard-trained Marine combat veteran.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#12Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/13/14 at 6:05pm
"Good call. I dunno, for me he's been cast as an awkward/attractive but not leading-man-material type. Is that a type?"
yeah, I think you nailed it. And his look can change drastically according to facial and head hair. He has to cover his ears with his hair, though. Have you noticed the poor guy's ears? aw.
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#14Lena Dunham - Martyr
Posted: 3/13/14 at 7:06pm^ hmm, that answers a lot of questions!
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