The Knockturnal was on the red carpet for the New York Premiere of the sixth and final season of HBO’s “Girls.”
The screening was held at Alice Tully Hall and a fabulous party followed at Cipriani 42nd Street.
OJ Williams: Through this creative process what do you admire most about each other?
Jennifer Konner: Your glasses are so nice.
Lena Dunham: We admire your glasses. What do we admire most about each other? I admire Jenny’s, besides the fact that she’s the funniest person I’ve ever met, I admire Jenny’s gentle strength. Which is that she gets what she wants, while also making people feel nurtured, and it’s an incredible quality in a leader.
OJ Williams: Powerful.
Jennifer Konner: I admire, I’m not going to say most but in the top five, because I love her to much to decide, is that Lena is a person who I am not kidding you writes to relax. When I would send her home from set, because she had been working for 14 hours, she would go home and write a book. It’s insane.
OJ Williams: Talk about the impact of Girls and what you hope to the Girls legacy leave behind.
Jemima Kirke: I hope it leaves behind some bold story tellers. People who tell from a really specific point of view. No one should be generalizing or softening the edges of their story. Not just theirs, any story you want to tell. The more specific the better. That’s why people get really pissed off at Girls. I think one of the reasons is it comes from such a specific point of view, and a lot of people want the point of view to include them, and it doesn’t always because it can’t, because it’s coming from a specific point of view that no one else can have. I hope more people start to make risky work like that.
OJ Williams: What advice do you have for the next set of Girls?
Jemima Kirke: Oh I don’t know. I don’t know. Bare it all.
OJ Williams: It’s the final season can you believe it?
Becky Ann Baker: No, and it went quickly when you really look back it seemed so much faster than it should have. I think this is going to be a lot of fun for the fans this season.
OJ Williams: Talk about the first call you got when you were offered the part.
Becky Ann Baker: Actually, I had worked for Judd Apatow before. I did Freaks and Geeks, I was the mom on Freaks and Geeks.
OJ Williams: Legend.
Becky Ann Baker: They just called me up and said, “Judd’s working on this pilot with this young wonderful director actress Lena Dunham, would you take a look at the script and think about doing the pilot?” I was just like “Yeah. Who am I to say no to that?” It was very exciting.
OJ Williams: My memory always goes back to that first scene in the restaurant.
Becky Ann Baker: Right. No more money.
OJ Williams: Yeah, no more money.
Becky Ann Baker: No more money.
OJ Williams: Now your characters gone in such a metamorphosis. Talk about where we see her go this year.
Becky Ann Baker: It’s interesting, because she’s really reinventing her entire life. Nothing that I, Loreen had planned has gone the way she thought it was. She thought she was going to have, from that first season, a little cabin out on some lake to retire to. Instead she’s a woman on her own. I think that’s just a great hint at things that might come from the last season.
OJ Williams: Girls was always known for their shocking scenes, per say. You’ve been a part of a couple of them.
Becky Ann Baker: I have.
OJ Williams: Talk about preparing for those scenes, and then when you get them were you surprised that you would be involved in one of them.
Becky Ann Baker: It was interesting, because when the costumer called me before that episode I hadn’t read it yet, and she said “Well I guess we don’t need to discuss to much wardrobe in this episode.” I said, “What are you talking about?” She said, “Oh, you haven’t read it yet. You’re going to be naked.” That was how I found out. They asked us to do so many wonderful things. I will be forever grateful for this job, it was the best job of my career.
OJ Williams: Lena is known such a collaborator, talk about working with her and developing where your character is, and how she is, and the mannerisms, and everything.
Becky Ann Baker: She’s an astonishing writer as well as actress, and then she’d be directing many of the episodes as well. We would be in a scene like this, we would be going, going, going and then all the sudden something crossed her eyes and she’d go, “And cut.” I’d realize she was not just acting with me, she was also watching the scene as a director. It was amazing. She’s a woman of many gifts.
The final season premieres on Feb. 12.
