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Lena Dunham on Rediscovering ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ When ‘Life Had Gotten Really Big’ Following ‘Girls’ Success: ‘I Needed to Feel Comfort’

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Scott Huver Standing on the roof of The Grove’s parking structure, writer-director Lena Dunham took in the lavish details of Friday’s influencer-packed VIP screening of her new Prime Video film “Catherine Called Birdy,” clearly delighted by the Ren-Faire-meets-rave vibe that Amazon created to capture the film’s blend of 13th Century setting and contemporary tone. “I’m not above doing all the activities,” enthused Dunham, clad in a billowy blue hoop skirt that essentially precluded sitting down yet matched the event’s old-new ethos by also prominently displaying her tattoos. “I just went and got some jewelry engraved.” Dunham’s immersion in “Birdy’s” world goes back to reading the source material – Karen Cushman’s beloved 1994 YA novel – for the first time when she was 10 years old. “There’re certain books when you’re a little kid that make you feel like you’re capable of taking on the world and that’s what this book was for me,” she told Variety. “From the minute I read it, I found the character lovable and maddening.

I like that she didn’t have any sort of superpowers or sword skills. Her superpower’s just being herself.” “I was such a book freak and the genre I always loved most was historical fiction,” she explains. “I wasn’t a fantasy and sci-fi nerd.

I wanted to disappear into life, but into other people’s lives. And so ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ is one of probably five or six books I can remember that were really mythical in my formation and pushed my fantasy life.” Indeed, the book had stuck with her and she found her way back to it as she closed out her 20’s, a turbulent period during the run of her high-profile, often polarizing HBO series “Girls” and the rise of her public profile. “I came to a place where I

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