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Lena Dunham Took “Intentional Break” From Acting After ‘Girls’
Eight years after Girls ended, Lena Dunham is returning to the small screen with Netflix's 'Too Much'.
The Golden Globe winner recently explained why she took an “intentional break” from acting and public life after facing backlash around several controversies involving her breakout HBO comedy-drama, which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017. Going to rehab for an addiction to prescription anxiety medication, Dunham “felt like all the maturing and changing that had been kept at bay by the experience of being in that cocoon of the show was suddenly happening at a speed that was overwhelming. Co-created by Dunham and husband Luis Felber, the Girls alum plays Jessica’s older sister, who has similarly retreated from public life after a messy divorce sent her moving back in with their mom.
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