In a series of tweets published earlier this week, Lena Dunham explains how she believes she has benefited from the white privilege in her career. The creator of Girls decided to address the issue after seeing her name circulating on the network. Indeed, many Internet users have advanced the idea that the actress owed her success to her privileged family roots, something she fully recognizes.
"I agree that the Hollywood system works in favor of whites and that my career took off at a young age with relative ease," she wrote. A facility that I was not able to recognize because I was not aware of the existence of this privilege. "
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Daughter of renowned photographer Laurie Simmons and painter V. Caroll Dunham, it is true that Lena Dunham left rather favorably in the Hollywood jungle.
It actually wasn't a dialogue - it was just me agreeing that the Hollywood system is rigged in favor of white people and that my career took off at a young age with relative ease, ease I wasn't able to recognize because I also didn 't know what privilege was.
- Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) June 29, 2020Shut up and listen
"What is the lesson of all this? Sit. Be quiet, unless it is to defend change in favor of blacks. Listen. Create privately for a while - nobody needs my book right now, ”said Lena Dunham. The Girls series broadcast between 2012 and 2017 had already been criticized in the past for its blatant lack of ethnic diversity. In 2018, Lena Dunham had also apologized for having given Donny Glover the role of an African-American of republican obedience as recalled by the NME.
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