Alice Vincent recounts the best moments from Lena Dunham's sold-out London event
Caitlin Moran and Lena Dunham at the Royal Festival Hall Photo: Getty
The Telegraph - 01 Nov 2014
On Friday night, the buzz of chatter in Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall was at a noticeably higher pitch than usual. Two-and-a-half thousand people, of which the vast majority were female and in their twenties, had come to see journalist Caitlin Moran interview Lena Dunham, the writer, director and actress of US TV show Girls.
To say that both have a cult status among this crowd would be an understatement - tickets sold out in less than 12 hours. Among the ticketholders was comedian Sarah Millican, Great British Bake Off finalist and feminist writer Ruby Tandoh, the cast of Call the Midwife and, representing one of the few men over 35 in the crowd, Richard E Grant, who made a guest appearance in the third series of Girls as an amorous junkie.
From their 90-minute conversation, and Dunham’s only London event, here are the best bits.
