***Update: Allison Williams has said that she hopes Lena Dunham never gives up acting because she’s so good. However, she’s in a bit of a Catch 22 as she’s totally cool with acting in the roles that Lena has written. ‘I'm of two minds about this. Number one she's so phenomenally talented as an actress - and I can say that first hand - that it would be sad if she stopped.’ She told E! News: ‘That said, part two is that if she's going to be writing roles for women I would like to be the first in line because she writes such good stuff for women and men.’ ***
‘She's just a phenomenal writer. So I know she'll do whatever she feels like doing. I just hope she doesn't stop acting because she's so good.'
Lena Dunham, the writer, producer, sometime-director and lead actress of Girls, says that she might very well give acting the boot after the cult series ends.
‘I don’t know if I’m going to want to act anymore.’ she told US Glamour. ‘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.’
Which is all very sisterly, especially considering the comments she made at SXSW festival about sexism in the TV and film industry. In an environment that is so reluctant to respect actresses’ abilities to play a diverse range of characters, it’s no wonder that Lena might prefer to take on a more executive role in a bid to make that change.
Later in the interview, she also reveals that her boyfriend Jack Antonoff, guitarist in power-pop band Fun., was so baffled by the whole debate around her character's nudity on Girls that they spoke about it on their first date: ‘I remember talking with him on our first date and him being like, “God, all the articles about your nudity on the show are such bullshit.’” In fact, they still talk about it to this day: ‘It’s funny, ’cause in some ways that’s the conversation we still have when I’m upset [about stuff I read].’
Hopefully, when Lena Dunham's (even more of) a bigwig producer and able to make decisions from above, she’ll be able to change all of that, right?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.