When Girls Met Game of Thrones
Lena Dunham was 10 years old when Catherine, Called Birdycame into her life. “I held it up and went, ‘I need this book!’” the multihyphenate tells Yohana Desta. Two decades later, Dunham has transformed Karen Cushman’s beloved novel—about a mischievous 14-year-old, 13th-century tomboy doing everything she can to stop her father from marrying her off—into a film starring Game of Thrones standout Bella Ramsey.Ramsey and Dunham spoke exclusively to V.F. about their film, a triumph of the ordinary: “It isn’t a story about a teenage warrior,” Dunham says. “It isn’t a story about a forbidden teenage romance. She doesn’t have magical powers. It doesn’t fall into [those] tropes. She really is just a complicated, tough—at times doing challenging and unlikable things—young woman.”
Elsewhere in HWD, Rebecca Ford chats with three standout directors from the third season of Succession; David Canfieldreviews the charming new season of Never Have I Ever; and Richard Lawson evaluates two more new releases: Prime Video’s TV adaptation of A League of Their Own, and the surprisingly taut thriller Fall.
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