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Jan 11 2013 12:00 PM ET

'Girls': Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner answer our burning questions about season 2

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Lena Dunham (middle) and Zosia Mamet (right), with Elijah’s boyfriend, George (Billy Morrisette) on “Girls”

This Sunday, Girls returns to HBO for its second season—with a bit of a warning. “If you loved what we were doing last season, then we’re speaking right to you,” the show’s co-creator and star Lena Dunham told EW in our Winter TV Preview issue. “If you hated it, then I’m afraid things aren’t going to change.”

You’ll have to wait to see how you feel about the cocaine episode, and the episode where Hannah has a pretty awkward discussion about race. But in the meantime, we’ve been chatting with Dunham and Girls co-creator Jenni Konner about what to expect this season. Below, we’ve excerpted sections of two separate conversations with each show runner. They answer our burning questions about the new episodes.

Judging by the trailer, it looks like Hannah gets together with a lot of guys this season. How has the way she views her love life changed?
Lena Dunham: Hannah is desperate for experiences to write about, done with Adam and confident that she understands the mechanics of sex. (Spoiler alert: she doesn’t.) This leads to embracing unwise hookups and ruining wiser ones.
Jenni Konner: Let’s be honest, her love life is never that hot, but it will be very busy.

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Dec 24 2012 10:48 AM ET

Trailer with two nude girls in a tub talking about urine: Can you guess the HBO show?

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Hannah oversharing, Jessa casually offending everyone around her, Marnie hating that her absence hasn’t ruined Charlie, two girls in a bathtub blowing snot and laughing about urine, lots of Elijah, and but a glimpse of Shoshanna. Yes, ladies and gents, it’s the new trailer for the second season of Girls, which returns to HBO Jan. 13. Whether you view the show as a candid exploration of 20-somethings struggling to find a place in the world or a weekly dose of spoiled brats whining about white people problems, let’s just agree that pop culture is simply more interesting with Girls in it. Check it out below: READ FULL STORY »

Dec 18 2012 03:34 PM ET

Guys of 'Girls' talk about the show with Lena Dunham -- VIDEO

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Lena Dunham rounded up the guys of Girls — Christopher Abbott, Adam Driver, Alex Karpovsky, and Andrew Rannells — for a quick roundtable discussion at a bar about the upcoming second season of the HBO comedy, premiering Jan. 13. And if their answers are any indication, things are about to get even crazier for our favorite group of hot messes.

It seems like Charlie (now rocking some serious facial hair!) will be in a love triangle with Marnie and Audrey; Ray is dating Shoshanna after sleeping with her in the finale; Adam is still being his weirdo self, and apparently new roommate Elijah and Hannah will be partaking in a lot of cocaine, which, if anything like Shoshanna’s experience with crack last season, will be highly entertaining. The group also discussed Dunham’s multiple roles behind the camera. “It was very odd for me to direct,” Dunham says. “It’s hard to see your onscreen boyfriend kissing another onscreen girl.”

Check out the discussion, and find out why they start calling Abbott Mr. Miyagi, below: READ FULL STORY »

Dec 11 2012 11:00 AM ET

Lena Dunham threatens legal action, Gawker removes leaked book proposal

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Didn’t get a chance to read Girls creator Lena Dunham’s $3.7 million book proposal when it leaked online last Friday? Too bad — Gawker, the site that originally published the proposal, has removed it after being contacted by Charles Harder, the 26-year-old multihyphenate’s lawyer. Buzzfeed has taken down every image from a post titled “9 Passages From Lena Dunham’s Book Proposal Illustrated By Her Instagrams” as well.

But while Gawker writer John Cook got rid of the proposal itself — though it’s probably still floating around on the Internet, since Cook posted it as a downloadable Scribd file — he neglected to scrub several of its quotes from his original blog post despite Harder’s cease and desist. Instead, Cook has added snide commentary meant “to clarify our intent in quoting the above matter from Dunham’s proposal” to each excerpt. Example: “The quoted sentence demonstrates that Dunham is incapable of conceiving a rationale for writing that doesn’t serve the goal of drawing attention to herself.”

Girls returns to HBO Jan. 13.

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Dec 10 2012 01:06 PM ET

Lena Dunham faces her critics in new 'Girls' season 2 poster

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Get ready, Internet: Only four more weeks before your Twitter feed is once again dominated by people arguing about Girls. HBO’s love-it-or-hate-it comedy returns January 13, promising more 20-something hijinks, more awkward sex, and lots more Lena Dunham — the series’ 26-year-old creator/writer/star/director/best boy.

Unsurprisingly, Dunham herself is front and center on the show’s new season 2 poster. The image is a close-up of the multihyphenate’s slightly hopeful face, emblazoned with an appropriately cheeky tagline: “Almost getting it kind of together.” Jury’s out on whether Dunham would be naked if the camera zoomed out. See the new poster after the jump:

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Dec 7 2012 11:58 AM ET

'Girls': The Maxim photo-shoot scene you never saw -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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Do we really have to wait 36 and a half more days until HBO’s Girls returns for a second season? (The show comes back Jan. 13, if you don’t feel like doing the math.) That’s much too long to spend anticipating Lena Dunham’s make-out scene with Donald Glover (is that him at 0:16 in this trailer?), Allison Williams’ big karaoke performance of Sarah McLachlan’s “Building a Mystery,” and the sleazy-sexy return of Jorma “I Think You’re a Person Who’s About To Have Sex With Me” Taccone.

But until then, you can tide yourself over with reruns from the first season, which will be out on DVD on Dec. 11, with bonus scenes that didn’t make the first cut. In this one, Hannah (Dunham) and Marnie (Williams) run into Hannah’s college nemesis, Tally (played by Jenny Slate of SNL fame). Remember Tally from “Leave Me Alone,” the episode where she published her first book, and we learned that her boyfriend committed suicide by popping a Percocet and crashing his car? Well, here, she’s posing for a Maxim photo shoot, as part of the magazine’s “Women of Letters” series. And her barely-there bikini is, shall we say, very creative. Watch what happens below.

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Nov 30 2012 01:21 PM ET

'Girls': Trailer for season two of HBO comedy debuts -- VIDEO

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Get ready to blog and tweet your feelings: The trailer for the new season of controversial but Emmy-nominated Girls, premiering Jan. 13 on HBO, has arrived, and despite a bad fight and a wedding at the end of last season, not much has changed.

The confused twenty-somethings are still as confused as ever. You’ve got no-longer-a-virgin Shoshanna declaring, “I may be deflowered, but I am not devalued,” and Hannah asking about weirdo on-again, off-again boyfriend Adam: “I know I always said he was murder-y in a sexy way. But what if he’s murder-y in like a murder way?”

Most intriguingly, Booth the Artist (played by Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone) is apparently returning for another round of weird flirting with Marnie. And we get our first peek at Rita Wilson, who will guest-star as Marnie’s mom this season.

Alll that, and plenty of dancing.

Watch the trailer below: READ FULL STORY »

Nov 29 2012 09:30 AM ET

Entertainers of the Year: Lena Dunham

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Photo: Lena Dunham. Credit: Jenny McCarthy / Getty Images

Ben Affleck might be on the cover of our Entertainers of the Year issue, but 2012 wasn’t so bad for Lena Dunham, either. Not only did she make our list of the year’s biggest talents in pop culture — earning a heartfelt tribute from Jon Hamm, who wrote it himself — she also scored an Emmy nomination for her new HBO comedy Girls, nabbed a role in Judd Apatow’s This is 40, signed a $3.5 million book deal, accepted an invitation to the Met Ball, and got the chance to interview her idol Nora Ephron about Ephron’s first movie, This is My Life, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. (Pause and take a deep breath to quell any feelings of jealousy.) We spoke with Dunham about what she called “the best year I’ve ever had as a human being.” Here are a few excerpts from that conversation.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Can you talk about the night you interviewed Nora Ephron at BAM? Did she tell you what she thought of Girls?
LENA DUNHAM: She actually watched it early, before it came out, and was awesomely encouraging. But that night at BAM was amazing because she was so insanely generous with her knowledge about the industry, about being a female in the industry, about trying to balance the fact of having children, and being a writer of prose, and being a wife, with the fact that she needed to make movies. For her to talk so openly about that to an audience of young women — I don’t even think she could’ve known what a gift that was. But I have a sense she had an inkling.

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Sep 17 2012 11:42 AM ET

'Girls' season 2: Watch a new teaser

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Not a lot seems to have changed in the second season of HBO’s Girls.

It’s not the year 2036. Magic hasn’t arrived. They haven’t brought in a whole batch of new girls to slowly phase out the old girls. Nope; none of that. Unless this teaser trailer is very deceptive, I’m pretty sure we’re in for more of the same Brooklyn kookiness when the show returns in January. Check out this shameful tease of a promo, set to a really catchy tune: READ FULL STORY »

Mar 13 2012 12:56 AM ET

SXSW: Festival homegirl Lena Dunham premieres three episodes of her new HBO series 'Girls'

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On Monday afternoon, Lena Dunham, who wrote and directed the beautifully received SXSW discovery Tiny Furniture in 2010, returned to Austin to share the first three episodes of her new HBO series Girls. Her latest creation is a terrifically fresh, recognizable portrait of being young, smart, and adrift in a city that isn’t there to serve you. There’s a not unkind wink to Sex and the City in the first episode, which seemed a shrewd way to acknowledge the inevitable comparisons and keep it moving.

Executive producer Judd Apatow stood alongside Dunham on stage, looking like a bemused and proud uncle in his pink button-down. (“I took a picture with a film fan at the Austin Airport and they put it on Twitter,” he said: “‘Judd Apatow comes to Austin with his suburban Dad fashion.’”) “I’ve never been around so many women before,” he said of Girls. “There were no bongs in the room. No bongs or penises and they don’t really like pornography. It was all very new for me.” READ FULL STORY »

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