Lena Dunham needs to place New York behind her — far, far behind her.
In a sprawling interview with The Times published on Saturday, June 28, Dunham informed the outlet she doesn’t imagine she ever actually belonged within the Massive Apple.
“I used to be by no means such New Yorker,” she admitted. “I believe being a New Yorker takes a specific amount of spunk and vigor to get by day-after-day.”
Dwelling within the metropolis requires “an inbuilt toughness” that Dunham, 39, isn’t certain she has as a result of “I’m simply destabilized, fairly nervous and with varied bodily well being issues.” (Dunham has been public with the wrestle with endometriosis and the genetic dysfunction Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.)
It seems Lena Dunham and Larry David share extra than simply initials and comedic expertise. Dunham, 37, was thrilled to find that she is said to David, 76, by her maternal line on the Tuesday, April 2, episode of the PBS docuseries Discovering Your Roots. “Larry shares a number of lengthy, equivalent segments of DNA with […]
In 2019, Dunham moved to the UK to direct an episode of the HBO drama Trade. Shortly after, she determined to relocate throughout the pond full-time.
The plan is partially difficult by Dunham’s pet pigs — two of them, to be actual — who sleep in her mattress and are “inside” pigs. Nonetheless, and regardless of the complication, she and her husband Luis Felber wish to make it work.
“In the long run our huge dream is to have a farm state of affairs within the countryside,” she defined. “And youngsters with British accents skipping off to high school in little hats and uniforms. It’s too charming!”
Dunham and Felber, 39, married in September 2021. Dunham had beforehand confirmed the connection to the New York Occasions in March of the identical yr, having informed the outlet, “I really feel actually fortunate. He’s the best particular person I’ve ever met.”
Dunham beforehand dated music producer Jack Antonoff. The pair’s relationship led to 2018 after 5 years collectively. Two years later, Dunham mentioned in an interview with Cosmopolitan UK that she and Antonoff, 41, had been nonetheless buddies.
“We fell in love once I was actually younger. I used to be 25. I look again and we had an amazing trip, we cared for one another, however you already know what? We had been each beginning our careers and that was our true ardour. The love you’ve got for somebody doesn’t disappear since you don’t have them; it’s simply logistically it doesn’t work anymore,” she informed the outlet in January 2020.
“There are undoubtedly moments the place I used to be catty, impolite or sassy, however he has been superbly accepting of these and I’ve been in a position to be accepting of his anger too,” she additionally mentioned. “What’s very nice is we don’t attempt to fake that we don’t have this historical past collectively, however we’re additionally keen to maneuver ahead.”