Lena Dunham is the it girl on Vogue's February issue where she is featured in a spread with her on-screen boyfriend Adam Driver in a multi-page spread shot by Annie Leibovitz with a couple quotes worth mentioning.
In the article Dunham is described as a non-stop worker who embodies exactly what she is selling: "a hyperconnected generation rich in entitled ambition but poor in practical know-how," according to Vogue. It is because of the ability to correctly portray that generation that Dunham has made TV comedy "relevant," and "very cool" again.
Besides being involved in every part of producing the hit HBO show Girls, Dunham is also working on her own documentary film, as well as a second HBO series, according to Vogue. She's also been writing first-person essays for The New Yorker and recently interviewed Judy Blume for The Believer.
Throughout the article, Dunham is described as always writing, no matter where she is, though she says "It is her great ambition to be the sort of writer who sits down to work," but for now her boyfriend Jack Antonoff is the only one making use of her work space, according to Vogue.
Antonoff is a guitarist for the band "Fun" and Dunham said in the article they met at a time where she really wasn't looking for love.
She met Antonoff when his sister, the designer Rachel Antonoff whom Dunham personally admires, decided to set them both up on a blind date, according to Vogue.
"I'd been like, If I never date again in my whole life, I'll be fine with it! I want to work and rescue rabbits and be a notable eccentric!" Dunham told Vogue. "I had a whole romantic idea about singledom, and then, of course, that's the moment when you meet someone that you really care about."
In Girls' third season, Dunham's character Hannah is also involved in more serious relationships and a whole bunch of problems viewers haven't seen before, Executive Producer Judd Apatow told Vogue.
Girls has been praised for their depiction of reality, and Dunham's writing technique, which she says she manages beside her "whirlwind" of a life, could be to thank for.
According to Vogue, Driver, Hannah's weird lover on Girls, said "the fact that she's able to do it in the moment, as it's happening, is her unique talent."
Dunham also touches on the sex and nudity scene which have been gained attention from critics for being unnecessary.
"There was a sense that I and many women I knew had been led astray by Hollywood and television depictions of sexuality," Dunham says, according to Vogue. "Seeing somebody who looks like you having sex on television is a less comfortable experience than seeing somebody who looks like nobody you've ever met."
Zosia Mamet, who plays Shoshanna Shapiro, told Vogue Dunham isn't " being naked just for the sake of being naked," and instead to depict more a reality.
The article also describes a corner in Dunham's apartment, which is mostly filled with furniture she took from the Girls set, she calls her "salon wall" and contains a birthday drawing for the New Yorker cartoonists and fan letters from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
And as far as letting the fame get to her head, Dunham had one thing to say: "I still go to a party and say something embarrassing to someone, and then write them a weird email about it the next day, and then write them a text because I think they didn't get the email. No matter what happens with your level of success, you still have to deal with all the baggage that is yourself," according to Vogue.
