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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. We have Lena Dunham with us today. Lena, actress, writer, producer, creator of Girls, best-selling author of her memoir, Famesick. We are gonna get into it with Lena. We are gonna talk about Nora Ephron. We're going to talk about the productivity myth and how we're all suffering because of it.
We're going to talk about whether or not one should go on Great British Bake Off. Is it actually worth it?
Chapter 2: What insights does Lena Dunham share about her early career?
We are going to get into so much good stuff today. We had a great conversation and we always like to talk to somebody who knows our guest, who has a question for our guest and wants to speak well behind their back. And we spoke to Natalie Portman. Classy actress. Natalie, you know her from The Black Swan, from rapping on SNL, from a little indie called Star Wars.
And she and Lena are working on a rom-com together. So let's get Natalie on the horn. I believe we're talking to her from outside of the country. So bonjour or bonsoir, Natalie. This episode is presented by Hilton guys. You know what vacation perfectionism is. It's the pressure to get your family's summer vacation booked and make it perfect and memorable stressful, right? Don't worry.
Chapter 3: How does Lena Dunham view the productivity myth?
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Hi now. Hi.
Nice to see you. You too. Thanks for talking to us today. First of all, congrats on the summer, Bob.
Thank you. You too. I mean, well, you're kind of, you've been, you've been doing it for, for a while, right?
Well, I have, I have, you know, visually like No option with my hair. My hair is kind of, my hair just cuts itself. Okay.
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Chapter 4: What does Lena Dunham say about her experience on 'Girls'?
So first of all, congratulations on all the things that are happening for you, including this new film that you're in with Mark Ruffalo and my wife, Rashida Jones and many others. She's my wife too. So I'm glad we share that in common. I'd like to, I'd like to talk about that because we can't share her. She's a polygamist. Well, I'd like to get her on the horn and make her pick. That's fair.
That's fair. That would actually probably be her nightmare. If we called Rashida right now, we're like me or Natalie.
Exactly. She'll be like Ezra.
I do want to talk about your film and working with Lena, but, but by the way, have you been listening to the Lonely Island to Seth Meyers podcast at all?
Chapter 5: What unique advice does Natalie Portman give to Lena Dunham?
No, but I've heard amazing things about it. Highly recommend their episode about your rap. It's so, it's so good. And it's so funny. And it's like very in depth about how it all came together. They're the best. And that was so fun. That was, and it just, it's such a time capsule too, because it's just like a time in the 2000s. So that's its own thing.
Birth of YouTube, like so wild.
You've got short hair. So exciting.
Yeah. Post head shaving. Wow.
That was a grow in. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Man, you know, you're not really an actress unless you have one. Head shaving. You've got to shave your head once. Have you ever shaved your head? No. I have kind of a small head, so I would be... That's surprising.
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Chapter 6: What are the challenges of adopting a pig according to Lena Dunham?
I wouldn't guess that. Oh, really? Thank you so much. Does my head look larger? Your head looks perfectly normal sized. Well, you know the whole theory that like the bigger the head, the more successful you are? Do you know this theory? Oh, really? No, I don't.
When at SNL, I'm sure this happened to you too when you were there, like they'll measure your head, you know, for prosthetics and stuff like that.
Chapter 7: What is Lena Dunham's perspective on the Great British Bake Off?
And so you get a sense of who has really big heads and supposedly historically... The bigger the head, the bigger the paycheck. No way. That's really funny. Now that I've brought this up, you're going to start to notice. You're going to start to notice like, wow, he has a huge head. Like he's, that's why he's running a country or whatever.
You're
I mean, I feel like you're pretty successful, Amy. Thank you so much. Maybe I'm a small headed success. Yeah, maybe you're an outlier. But I do wear, I wear a young boy's hat. I can wear a young man's hat. That's very lucky. Very lucky. So I'm interviewing Lena today. Yes. And, you know, I'm kind of getting her after a lot of interviews.
Like she's been kind of on tour, online, like really out there. And I've known her for a long time and I'm excited to talk about the different ways that I've known her, but I've never known her as a director. I've never worked with her in that way. And I'm curious what kind of director she is and what it was like to work with her in that way.
Um, she's the best director. I've one of, one of the best, if not the best I've worked with. She's so on point, like the notes she gives are so like astute and specific and like she pays attention to everything and she doesn't, also like hesitate to give compliments too about very specific things along with like, maybe try this different.
And she's extremely nurturing and generous and kind to everyone on set at all times. Like I would go home every day being like, how does she have the energy? Because the amount of like generosity and kindness and thoughtfulness she puts out all day, to everyone is like pretty miraculous. So the very, like the environment on set is incredible because everyone's just so happy.
Not a surprise to hear that. And so nice to hear that. And that's a really interesting specific that you said, which is that she will compliment something you've done. Like that isn't always the case. Like it's nice when people notice something that you try and say, I noticed it.
Exactly. And, and it's specific because a lot of people will be like, oh, good job. Or like, that was a really nice take or something, but like, I like how you like accented the, you know, word in that, that was really funny in that line, you know, very, a very specific thing that she notices or like that face you made in response to Rashida or whatever, like that was great.
Or it's, it's not just a general, like you can tell she's really just watching. So yeah. carefully and sharply. And her ideas are so good. And she comes up with like brilliant new lines all the time, you know, the way only great comedy minds like yourself can do.
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Chapter 8: How does Lena Dunham define her directing style?
I'm not ready to say that. I don't know. We should ask Lena.
We should ask Lena because the big boar is going to come for us in a way that I'm not ready for. Okay, I'm going to ask her the difference between boars and pigs. Natalie, thank you so much for doing this.
Thank you so much.
It really means a lot. And before we go, would you just mind saying in French to me, have a wonderful day, Amy. And your head may be small, but your heart is large.
Ta tête est petite, mais ton cœur est grand. Ah! France is going to murder me for that. They're going to send the boars. They're going to send the boars. Ding dong.
You're going to hear a ding dong right now. There's going to be four French boars. Language boars. No, thank you for doing that. It sounds beautiful. Anything you say sounds beautiful. And especially in French. Thank you, Natalie. Thanks. It's really nice to see you.
Thanks for doing this. I'm so glad to see you. Yeah, you too.
Have a great day. Okay, you too, honey. Bye. Enjoy, Lena. Give her a kiss from me.
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