Shot over two weeks in the middle of the pandemic, lenadunham's new coming-of-age film SharpStick explores female sexual empowerment and self-discovery. Read her full interview with gilliansagansky, here.
stars as Sarah Jo, a stunning, socially awkward caregiver for children with special needs. At 26, she lives a sheltered existence on the outskirts of Hollywood in an apartment she shares with her mother, Madelyn , and TikTok influencer sister, Treina . The two regale her with candid stories of sex and heartbreak, and uninhibitedly dole out love advice.
What’s always been the most interesting to me are female characters who exist outside of the tropes that we’ve always seen—whether it’s the badass with the gun who secretly wants love or the woman who worked so hard but has to eat Chinese food in her house at night. The problems we give women always fit into a fenced-in area of the problems we feel safe giving women.
Her journey of sexual awakening was also interesting to me because it was fueled as much by her curiosity as by her fear of sexual inadequacy, concerned that men would leave her if she wasn’t good at sex. So as excited as I was for her, there was also an inherent sadness to her journey because I felt it partially came from a place of insecurity rather than sexual empowerment.
Speaking of penning the script, I’m curious as to how this project came to be. You’ve had a rough go of it sinceMy mother definitely wishes that I would have kept some of that private, but the reason I didn’t is because of the kinds of conversations you and I are having—that you can be living your dream, impressing yourself creatively while battling these forces from within and forces from without. People would imagine that duringI was on top of the world.
It was one of those things where I woke up one day and there it was—and that doesn't happen. The last time that happened to me wasI always feel like you have to follow that instinct. Your representatives are never thrilled when you call them and you’re like, I’d like to make a movie for zero dollars in the middle of Covid that will either make people perturbed or repulsed. The movie came together really quickly. It’s a very rare experience to have somebody say, “Just express yourself.
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