Girl has an inflated ego.
From Daily Mail: Lena Dunham is on a mission. The Girls creator and star posted a throwback photo of herself as a 22-year-old on her Instagram on Tuesday along with a long discourse about why she chooses to use her fame ‘to spread messages with meaning.’
It came as she also publicly supported a campaign to remove guns from subway posters for the upcoming Jason Bourne movie by literally ripping the image off the wall.
Dunham, 30, supported an initiative proposed by MADtv and Girls producer Tami Sagher, who is also a writer for Inside Amy Schumer. ‘Hey New Yorkers, what if we do some peeling & get rid of the guns in the Jason Bourne subway ads. So tired of guns,’ Sagher wrote on her Instagram alongside a photo of a vandalised poster.
Dunham’s response was followed by the photo of her younger self which she said had been sent to her by ‘a boy (now man) I loved (still do, tons, just in a different way).’ She explained that what she remembered about being 22 ‘was how totally unaware I was of the world around me.’
The actress, writer and producer went on: ‘For me, it honestly took becoming a public person and being held accountable by viewers and readers to really understand and begin to engage in an intersectional (and therefore whole) approach to life and work.’
A “meaningful message” Dunham is spreading on the show Girls
‘Now I feel that the ONLY use for fame is to spread messages with meaning, and right now the most urgent thing I can think to say is that our country needs to talk about, and change our entire ingrained approach to, race.’To back up her viewpoint, she followed up by posting to her Instagram an image showing the names of black people shot by white police officers including the two most recent high profile cases of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. ‘No caption needed #blacklivesmatter,’ she wrote.
DCG