While Lena Dunham worked on Girls, she was already cooking up the details of her next passion project.
After reading Karen Cushman’s novel entitled Catherine Called Birdy, the actress/director was set on adapting the story to the screen in a way that would be comical and relevant.
The upcoming film is centered on Catherine, a girl in 13-century England that opposes her father’s plan to marry her off to a nobleman in exchange for their family’s reinstated wealth.
In an interview with Indie Wire, Dunham said that she wanted to capture a main character that felt relatable and not necessarily the superheroine that audiences have been watching in the past few years.
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