Watch Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling And All Your Other Best Friends Get Together And Talk About Being Excellent
If you can't be with them at Sundance, you may as well stalk them on Youtube.
Sundance Film Festival has kicked off this week in Utah which means all your favourite people are now hanging out together watching all the year’s best films before you’ve even had a chance to hear about them. Thankfully, because the internet is a thing that exists, we can now live vicariously through it all online by creeping on a bunch of the more envy-inducing events.
Case in point: Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, Kristen Wiig, Jenji Kohan (Orange Is The New Black, Weeds) and Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker just got together for a panel called ‘Serious Ladies’ and the entire thing is recorded on Youtube for you. It’s safe to say your Sunday afternoon just got a lot more interesting.
The panel which clocks in at just over an hour of quality hang times — the action starts from about 24.00 — has the stars talking about their experience as women in the TV and film industries, the use of humour in their work, the differences between themselves and their characters, their approach to sex scenes and much, much more.
Seriously. They jump from the topic of Shonda Rhimes and the representation of people of colour on television versus independent film to Woody Allen to Björk’s Pitchfork interview and the problems with being a female auteur to Larry David to the fact that Silver Linings Playbook is basically Footloose. It’s a lot to take in.
Key moments: the bit towards the end where Mindy Kaling says her parents raised her “with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man” and the time where Lena Dunham tells us there’s a super-extended and hilarious clip of that incredible scene from Bridesmaids hidden somewhere in Judd Apatow’s office right now.
