Lena Dunham Says She Wasn’t Surprised By MAGA’s Rise As She Experienced “Angry” & “Incredibly Conservative” Backlash For ‘Girls’

Lena Dunham Says Conservative Misogyny Led to MAGA Movement

Actress Lena Dunham said she felt no surprise at the sudden rise of MAGA due to the misogyny she claims to have experienced while making her HBO series Girls. The post Lena Dunham Says Conservative Misogyny Led to MAGA Movement appeared first on Breitbart.

Lena Dunham Says She Saw MAGA's Rise Coming

Back in 2016, when Donald Trump won and liberals everywhere gasped, Lena Dunham wasn’t surprised. The country’s backslide into barefaced bigotry, far-right conservatism, and Christian nationalism wasn’t sudden to her—she’d seen it festering for years in the Girls’ comments section. The award-winning HBO series created by and starring Dunham premiered in 2012—four years before that infamous election night. And this week, in a long-awaited appeara…

Lena Dunham reveals she received ‘incredibly conservative’ backlash for Girls

The writer, director and actress says she wasn't surprised by the rise of MAGA

Lena Dunham Says She Wasn’t Surprised By MAGA’s Rise As She Experienced “Angry” & “Incredibly Conservative” Backlash For ‘Girls’

When it premiered on HBO in 2012, Lena Dunham’s Girls — about the trials and tribulations of a squad of 20-something privileged, often self-involved friends in New York City — was the talk of the town, the subject of many thinkpieces, critiques and praise before it became a seminal series and eventual stand-in for Sex […]

Lena Dunham Says MAGA Rise Doesn’t Shock Her Because of Conservative Misogyny She Endured Through ‘Girls’

After years enduring hateful messages online while making “Girls,” Lena Dunham was not as surprised as others by the rise of MAGA. While talking on this week’s “Girls Rewatch” podcast, Dunham explained that based on a number of comments she was sent on social media back in the early 2010s she was prepped and ready for the more hateful aspects of the MAGA movement. What did surprise her was how many other people were shocked by it. “There were so…

Lena Dunham 'in' for Girls spinoff focused on 'favourite' character

Girls creator Lena Dunham has revealed the character she'd love to bring back for a spinoff series.