If you have a subscription to American magazine Fast Company, you’ll have just received the current issue which features Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow. The pair work together on the hit series Girls, which has had huge success.
In the shoot, Dunham and Apatow can be seen sitting under hair dryers in a salon, having a good old chinwag.
The pair speak to each via Skype during the feature, making for some entertaining comments, such as Apatow saying: “Skype doesn't really work because the camera is above the image. If I'm looking into the camera, which makes me look kind of normal, I can't see you. But if I look at you, I look like I'm not looking at you. It's just a mind-f**k. We need the technology of a camera in the center of the screen, but invisible. That's what Steve Jobs would be doing if he were alive--working on an invisible, middle-of-screen camera.”
The pair do eventually get more in-depth however, discussing Girls and also Judd’s new movie This Is 40. Apatow says: “Watching you create the first season of Girls had a big impact on me. In some unconscious way, it got me in the right groove to do This Is 40. It's weird, but I do feel likeGirls and This Is 40 are cousins.”
While Lena agrees: “I do too. If we were to train this same kind of eye on the Girls characters in 15 years, we might experience something like This Is 40.”
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Posted by Amy Power.