Lena Dunham
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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?
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.
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How does Lena Dunham view the productivity myth?
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Yeah!
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–0:33
2
What insights does Lena Dunham share about her early career?
0:33–1:27
3
How does Lena Dunham view the productivity myth?
1:27–2:21
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What does Lena Dunham say about her experience on 'Girls'?
2:21–3:12
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What unique advice does Natalie Portman give to Lena Dunham?
3:12–4:04
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What are the challenges of adopting a pig according to Lena Dunham?
4:04–4:29
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What is Lena Dunham's perspective on the Great British Bake Off?
4:29–9:21
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How does Lena Dunham define her directing style?
9:21–1:03:30