“If our show can in any way contribute to that, that’s an amazing thing,” she said of raising political issues and awareness. Acknowledging she has shifted her views on some issues, Dunham said, “Changing your mind is a very healthy part of human development.”
Dunham’s remarks came at a PaleyFest panel Sunday for the HBO series, which wraps up its girls dp paleyfest picfourth season on March 22. Comedy producer/director Judd Apatow, who is an executive producer on the show, moderated. Cast members Allison Williams, Alex Karpovsky and Andrew Rannells joined Apatow and Dunham. Executive producers Jenni Konner, Bruce Eric Kaplan and Ilene S. Landress also were there.
The latest cycle of Girls debuted January 11 with its lowest-rated premiere to date. Not that it won’t be back. Even with just 680,000 total viewers for its S.4 start, Girls had already been picked up by HBO for Season 5 on January 5. Today’s panel started with a screening of tonight’s episode of the series, with Apatow’s daughter Maude starring.
This isn’t the first time in recent days that Dunham and Apatow have appeared on the same stage. On March 5, they appeared together for An Evening With Judd Apatow at LA’s Largo to benefit the non-profit writing group 826LA. Ray Romano, Kathy Griffiths, Andy Dick, Zach Galifianakis and Whitney Cummings also took part.
Konner actually kicked things off by telling Apatow and the crowd that she first came to PaleyFest years back to see a Freaks & Geeks panel. Later, when taking questions from the crowd, Apatow joked that the panel would take “only 12 questions about Cosby.” The EP has heavily criticized the comedian as repeated allegations of sexual assault have surfaced. Konner noted this is the longest she has known Apatow to go without mention Cosby. Apatow also joked that his version of the end of Girls would be “very violent” and “like Breaking Bad.”
Online criticism hasn’t been reserved for Cosby, however, and Dunham said she has stopped reading the comments many make of her there.
“I stopped looking at Twitter,” Dunham said. “It became a little too much.”
She made a point of deleting the social media app from her phone, but the still-Twittering actress now sends her tweets to an unnamed person (castmate Williams joked it was her), who posts them for her and tells her the responses.
“What happens in the Paley stays in the Paley,” joked Dunham to those tweeting and texting her comments. “I think it would be dangerous if we got too into what the Internet was saying or the awards. (But) until this moment, we don’t believe anyone is actually watching.’
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