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Lena Dunham lives a reclusive life by Hollywood’s standards, but she recently rallied in Washington, D.C. for a cause she believes in.
The creator and star of HBO’s “Girls,” 38, has stepped back from public life over the past few years but made a surprise appearance Monday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. at a Christopher Street Project-led rally for Trans Day of Visibility.
The brainchild behind upcoming Netflix series “Too Much” took to a podium and mic in a sleeveless pink sweater to deliver a speech in front of fellow activists for the event, which seeks to shine a light on issues facing the transgender community.
Dunham was among the featured speakers at the rally, which also included U.S. Reps Summer Lee, Katherine Clark, Maxwell Frost and U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii among others.
In a lengthy Instagram post Tuesday, Dunham recounted the rally for fans.
“Speaking at the rally for Trans Day of Visibility organized by @christopherstreetproject yesterday was a total pleasure and honor. We stood in front of the capital celebrating a community that has meant more to me than Instagram allows characters for,” Dunham wrote.
“It’s a privilege to get a chance to share the love and joy being in family and community with trans people has given, and to hear these politicians, leaders and organizers offer tangible ways to protect our trans loved ones right now,” she added.
Dunham continued: “The crowd and leadership were so inspiring — the youth really will save us, and the elders will show us the way.”
Lena Dunham has avoided public spotlight in recent years
In recent years, Dunham has avoided the public spotlight and attention from Hollywood, even though she has projects in the works.
She got candid about her life out of the spotlight last year, telling People in June while promoting her movie “Treasure” that “I am so lucky in that the last years have been, I would argue, the most peaceful of my life.”
“Sometimes I feel like I am boring on the phone with my friends, because I have a lovely husband who I adore collaborating with,” Dunham told People of husband Luis Felber, who she met and married in 2021 after splitting from music mega-producer Jack Antonoff in 2018.
In a New Yorker interview published in July, Dunham revealed how she’s protecting herself by remaining behind the camera in her upcoming semi-autobiographical Netflix rom-com series, “Too Much.” The 10-episode show, which Dunham co-created with Felber, stars comedian Meg Stalter (HBO’s “Hacks”) and Will Sharpe (HBO’s “The White Lotus”).
“I knew from the very beginning I would not be the star of it. First, because I had seen Meg Stalter’s work, and I was very inspired by her. She’s unbelievable; I think people are going to be so blown away. We know how funny she is,” Dunham told The New Yorker.
“I also think that I was not willing to have another experience like what I’d experienced around ‘Girls’ at this point in my life. Physically, I was just not up for having my body dissected again,” she added. “It was a hard choice — not to cast Meg, because I knew I wanted Meg, but to admit that to myself.”
“I used to think that winning meant you just keep doing it and you don’t care what anybody thinks. I forgot that winning is actually just protecting yourself and doing what you need to do to keep making work,” she continued.
Contributing: Anna Kaufman
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