During her decade and a half of fame, 39-year-old Lena Dunham has probably been “cancelled” more times than her entire generation of actors put together. Ever since she wrote, directed and starred in HBO’s cultural juggernaut Girls, about a group of liberal 20-somethings trying to make it in New York City during the recession, Dunham has been offending, apologising, disappearing and re-offending like a malfunctioning Jack in the Box. Her controversies have, for a long time, threatened to overshadow her deserved status as what her Girls clone Hannah pompously declares in the first episode, “the voice of her generation”.
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