Lena Dunham shares ‘unexpected’ Girls reunion plan

Lena Dunham has an “unexpected” plan to bring back ‘Girls’ – when the characters are much older.

Lena Dunham is open to bringing back ‘Girls’ – in 20 years time.

The 38-year-old actress starred in, wrote, directed and produced the HBO show – which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017 – and while she’s open to playing Hannah again, she’s keen to do something “unexpected” and wait until her alter ego and her pals Marnie (Allison Williams), Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) and Jessa (Jemima Kirke) are much older.

Asked about a ‘Girls’ reunion, Lena said on The Ankler’s Substack Live series ‘The Rushfield Lunch’: “We haven’t had a conversation about a reunion only because we always said when the show ended that if we were going to go back, it would have to be at such a different phase in their lives. Let’s check in when they’re 60.

“Let’s check in when they’re not at ‘Sex and the City’ age, they’ve taken even another leap. Part of the goal of the show was always to lean into what was unexpected, so we want to be unexpected if we come together again.”

Lena doesn’t think the characters’ cluelessness would be as believable in the present day as it was during its original run.

She said: “I feel like in a world after Me Too, in a world after the summer of 2020 uprisings and the conversation that existed in America around race, the conversations that are happening around gender, that so much of the confusion and ignorance that the characters exhibited – which was a part of their story—would be almost impossible for people who lived in Brooklyn and were plugged into the world to really exhibit.”

Lena previously admitted she was “touched and honoured” that ‘Girls’ has seen a resurgence in recent years as she never imagined people would still want to watch it now.

She told E! News last year: “I am so touched and honoured that young people this cool and on their s*** are responding to the show.

“I never made the show imagining that it would be seen at all, much less seen in 10 years. I’m just so grateful that it still resonates with people.

“I’m in total awe of Generation Z. They’re cooler, they’re smarter, they’re more on top of it. I feel like in every way that older people rolled their eyes at millennials, I have the opposite experience.”