Lena Dunham Wants To ‘Openly Make Art’ And ‘Apologize Less’ Going Forward

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In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter after her self-imposed exile, Lena Dunham reveals she’s entering a new creative era that will focus on art rather than public perception. “I just realized that the experience of ‘Girls’ and my 20s was such an all-encompassing hurricane of both validation and derision that in order for me to keep that place of myself that loved to make art, that was what needed to happen,” Dunham said of her sudden disappearance from the public eye.

The auteur rose to fame in 2011 with the release of her HBO series “Girls” which followed the messy lives of a group of young millennial women.

Dunham was only 24 when she landed her first major TV series. “I look back, and just, like, the sheer gall of me, stepping on to set that first day; 24-year-old me standing in Silver Cup Studios, the old ‘Sex and the City’ studios, going, ‘Let’s do this.’ I’m proud of myself,” recalled Dunham. READ MORE: Scott Speedman Talks Playing A Porn Star In Lena Dunham’s New Film ‘Sharp Stick’, Reveals How He Prepared For The Role With the sudden rise in profile also came criticism and scrutiny from the public eye.

Past mistakes were blown up to major gaffes. “There are things I said in my 20s and 30s that I apologized for because I knew they came from a place of ignorance and lack of awareness… I was young, and I had huge blind spots,” the star admitted of past racially insensitive remarks. “I came right at the cusp of the internet becoming a thing.