After years enduring hateful messages on-line whereas making “Ladies,” Lena Dunham was not as stunned as others by the rise of MAGA.
Whereas speaking on this week’s “Ladies Rewatch” podcast, Dunham defined that based mostly on a lot of feedback she was despatched on social media again within the early 2010s she was prepped and prepared for the extra hateful features of the MAGA motion. What did shock her was what number of different folks had been shocked by it.
“There have been so many individuals who when the voices of just like the actually alt-right or MAGA or conservative voices, Proud Boys, no matter began to rise and folks had been like I’m so shocked by the best way individuals are speaking,” Dunham stated. “I used to be like I’m not. These voices existed within the remark part. I used to be experiencing these voices in 2012.”
She continued: “There have been so many offended seemingly males and a few ladies dissecting the present in these like extremely conservative phrases. Like sure, there have been folks in Brooklyn who discovered us irritating … I at all times had much more respect for that. However there was additionally an enormous contingent of conservative folks it nearly like proof of a sure type of ethical decrepitude and in addition making massive judgements about our bodily our bodies, our sexuality. It was actually attention-grabbing to understand type of what a shock that was to some folks.”
Dunham has a brand new present out now on Netflix known as “Too A lot.” She won’t star because the lead this time round – that honor falls to “Hacks” breakout Megan Stalter – however the story is one more private one for her.
“All my work is private,” Dunham advised TheWrap of infusing features of her life into the Netflix sequence. “I feel I’d be extra scared tackling work that wasn’t private to me.”
Watch the complete clip of Dunham on the “Ladies Rewatch” podcast within the video above.
