Lena Dunham, Jenji Kohan and Kristen Wiig attend the Power Of Stories: Serious Ladies panel during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Source: AP
LENA Dunham has a lot to say about why women are unfairly likened to their characters, while men such as “perve” Woody Allen get a pass.
“Woody Allen is proof that people don’t think everything he says in his films is stuff that he does because all he was doing was making out with 17-year-olds for years and we didn’t say anything about it,” Dunham shared at Sundance Film Festival’s Power of Story: Serious Ladies panel on Saturday.
“And then he did it,” she added about the Manhattan director. “A bunch.”
The 28-year-old’s comments, which were met with murmurs from the audience, reference allegations that Allen sexually abused his adopted daughter Dylan.
“No one went that Woody Allen is making out with a 17-year-old in Manhattan and I guess he’s a real perve,” she added. “And then lo and behold,” Dunham said before fellow panellist Kristen Wiig jumped in, “He fell in love.”
Director Woody Allen. Source: Getty Images
Girls creator and star Lena Dunham. Source: AP
“I say one thing on the show and am accused of having erred,” she added, voicing her concerns.
Mindy Kaling, 35, mentioned that Dunham was harshly criticised when her Girls character, Hannah, said she was “the voice of a generation.”
“It was a beat generation joke and I’m going to go to my grave with it,” she explained.
Wiig, 41, added, “If I was confused with the characters I play, I would be locked up.”
Dunham is well aware of the criticism her show receives. “The fact is people are forgetting that humour is a tool for debate,” she said. “That boycott, censorship, shut-’em-down approach to humour shows a very basic lack of understanding of what humour can do for us culturally and what it has always done.”
This article first appeared in The New York Post.
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