1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: One or two point seven. It is Kiss FM as advertised. 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: This me an Tania as promised. Lena Dunham is here, 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to the show. Morning. It's an honor 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,240 Speaker 1: and a pleasure. Do you know. I'm just gonna say, 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: it's been too long, you know, it has been too long, 6 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: and I was thinking about that I haven't seen you 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: in a really long time and hearing your voice. I 8 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: mean I obviously hear your voice all the time because 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: you're Ryan Seacraft, but in dialogue with your voice is lovely. Well, 10 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: thank you, Lena Dunham. Do people call you who don't regularly, 11 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: you know, hang out with you. Do they call you 12 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: by your first and last name? Usually? That's an interesting question. 13 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: I do get a lot, I have to say, I 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: get a lot of friends being like like if I 15 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: do something not even like Luna done, I'm Lena done. 16 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: I'm Lena Dunham. Because I don't think I've ever said 17 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: your name without it being one word. I mean that. 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: Do people call you Ryan Seacrest, majority, the majority, even 19 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: my family calls me that. Now. I was thinking, stay 20 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: here in bed with a cup of coffee, trying to 21 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: get my voice to sound normal. How impressed I am 22 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: that you get up at at a such a thing 23 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: and share yourself with the people you know, and every 24 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: day the alarm goes off. They tell me it's going 25 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: to feel like a good day. It doesn't for the 26 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: first ten minutes. The first fifteen are really rough. But 27 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: then we get into a sort of a rhythm here 28 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: and you know, sis Antonia, they are really good at 29 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: giving feedback to to me, to each other. Can we 30 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: talk about a lot of things? For example, a congratulations 31 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: is in order. Since we last spoke years ago, you 32 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: got married, you celebrated a one year anniversary. Congratulations, thank 33 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: you so much so, it's been very sweet a year in. 34 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: I've never done it. Do you recommend it? I have 35 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: to say that yes I do. I mean, obviously it's 36 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 1: not a one size fits all thing. It's different for everyone. 37 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: Maybe you're a person who just loves to, you know, 38 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: have a partner, but also feel like you can have 39 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: a certain kind of freedom that you feel like maybe 40 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: marriage doesn't afford you. I don't know. I don't want 41 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: to don't want to impose in life bobs or psychology. 42 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: But what I really like about it, besides the fact 43 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: that I just really like my husband. It wouldn't work 44 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: with someone who wasn't him. Is that it really does 45 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: feel like that we're on a team together and that 46 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: we're something together. And of course I know plenty of 47 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: people who aren't married and so that way, and I 48 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: have plenty of people who are married to don't feel 49 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: that way. But that was the big thing in marriage 50 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: for me, was this feeling that like life is a 51 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: grand project that we're undertaking as a team. You know, 52 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: you said to me the word. And my friends who 53 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: have successful marriages, great relationships, they always say to me 54 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 1: that the thing for them is that they like they 55 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,799 Speaker 1: love them, of course, but they like their partner, They 56 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: like spending time, they like doing things together, they like 57 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: the person there with. That's I have to say that. 58 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: That is something that my parents always talked about. My 59 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 1: parents are going to celebrate their fortieth wedding anniversary this year. 60 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: They've been together for years, and they would always my 61 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: mom would always say to me, I love your dad, 62 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: but sometimes I don't love him, but also I like him. 63 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: She'd be like, I just like he is, and I 64 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: think the big things for me. I like him, I 65 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: trust him, and we have fun together and when we 66 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: don't have fun together, I always know that that's coming 67 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: again because those other two, well, you know what's fun. 68 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: Let me tell you want to have a good time, 69 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: you need to get your Amazon I'm video streamable and 70 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: check out Catherine called Birdie. Now you want to laugh? 71 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: How do you do when when someone said, oh, well, 72 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: what is it? How do you say what it is? 73 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: Because it's unique. I'm so glad that you think it's fun, 74 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 1: because I think it's fun too. And what I say 75 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: is that it is uh period set, coming of age 76 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: comedy about a young woman fighting back against an arranged marriage. 77 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: And sometimes they go that sounds great, and sometimes they 78 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: go what the f? But either way they seem vaguely intrigued. 79 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: And so and the other thing I say is it's 80 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 1: a period piece about a girl getting her period, and 81 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: it's based on it. I mean, the novel is the 82 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: material that you started with? He right, the novels that 83 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: I started with. It's a children's literature. It's a piece 84 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 1: of children's literature from so. I read it in I 85 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: was ten, and it was my favorite book as a kid. 86 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,239 Speaker 1: And then when I up to this weird old town 87 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: and people started talking about optioning things and what book 88 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 1: would you want to option? And and this was what 89 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: I said. And it was right at the height of 90 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: sort of like Hunger Games, um, Twilight, like teen movies 91 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,679 Speaker 1: were definitely feeling that they had to have this really 92 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: big hook, you know, whether it was teens fighting to 93 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: the death or your in love with the vampire, and 94 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: both those things are great, but this one didn't necessarily 95 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: have that, And so it took a while to find 96 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: people who trusted that this could be its own kind 97 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: of um, this could be its own kind of teen story. 98 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 1: And I was lucky enough to find working title in 99 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 1: London and Amazon and I got to make it and 100 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: it was such a joy to do. It really was. 101 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,239 Speaker 1: Were had on a job. Do you want to laugh? 102 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: Catherine called Bertie. Check it out on Amazon Prime Video. Now. 103 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: The real reason you are here, I know, is to 104 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: give us a preview of Taylor swift new album Midnights. 105 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: What do you know? Literally literally I can't even say 106 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: a word about saying a word. I would never say. 107 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 1: I mean, it's coming it's coming out Friday. And here's 108 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 1: what I'll say. My favorite thing about is that, despite 109 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: being her friend, I am a crazed fan just like 110 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,479 Speaker 1: everyone else, and when an album comes out, like I 111 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: have the exact same response that like a fourteen year 112 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: old in Ohio would happen. I'm just saying like that, 113 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: just despite knowing and loving her for such a long time, 114 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: I just and and I'm sure that everyone will have 115 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: their mind flown because the thing about her is she 116 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: just gets better and better and better and better and better. 117 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: We don't know how she does it, but we thank her. 118 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: We do, and we think we do. Thank you, Lena, really, honestly, 119 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: we are such big fans and I was really looking 120 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: forward to chatting with you and catching up with you 121 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 1: to day. So thank you for coming on. It's a, 122 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 1: as I said before, an honor and a pleasure. You 123 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: are a national treasure, right Lena Dunham. She could put 124 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: words together. Hey guys, she could discover USA could please 125 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: watch out. We could have a big break right here. 126 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: Say you don't know this, could see the first day 127 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: of the rest of your life. Thank you, We'll enjoy 128 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: your morning, Lena dam Thank you for coming on. We'll 129 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: see you soon, I hope in person. Thank you all 130 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: for having me. Bye bye bye. Truly one of the 131 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: greats to me, one of the great, right, Yeah, like 132 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: if her names on something, you know what, there's people 133 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: where you have their name is, don't even know the title, 134 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: but their name is on. You know it's going to 135 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: be good. You know it's going to be good. Who 136 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: else is like that for me? Oh, a lot of people. 137 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: Jennifer Anderson, Julie Robert, George Clooney. I want to see 138 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: that movie. Yes, yes, yes, I'm Brian Cranston. Oh, SHAWNA 139 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: rhymes yes, uh, Ryan Murphy. Who's in the staircase? Patrick Schwarzenegger. Nope, 140 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: the female lead, but we still Patrick to cot Tony Collett. 141 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: Tony Collett's in it. It's great. Yeah. Coming up next, 142 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: Charlie Pouth is playing The Ace Hotel. Tickets are next