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By Frazier Moore AP Television Writer


NEW YORK — Let’s go surfing!


The final season of “Girls” begins with Hannah, the series’ ever-out-to-prove- herself writer, braving sand, sunblock and neoprene for the sake of a magazine assignment.


As usual with this come- dy of over-bright 20-some- things searching for them- selves, the episode feels reliably true-to-character yet unpredictable as Han- nah gains a measure of per- sonal insight that extends beyond her lack of acumen on a surfboard. It airs Sun- days at 10 p.m. EST on HBO.


Debuting in 2012, the series instantly became a cultural touchstone as it charted the Brooklyn-based adventures of Marnie (played by Allison Wil- liams), Jessa (Jemima Kirke), Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) and Lena Dunham, who, besides starring as Hannah, was also the series’ creator as well as writer, producer, director and its overall creative wellspring. During a recent chat with The Associated Press, Dun- ham talked about this con- cluding season, the five sea- sons before, and the alien experience of surfing in New York.


A little too gnarly?


Sure, certain beaches on Long Island draw a surfing crowd conspicuously outfit- ted with sleek physiques. It’s a different story in the nearby urban canyons. “If you live in New York City, you almost forget you


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Executive producer and actress Lena Dunham attends the premiere of HBO’s “Girls” sixth and final season in New York.


have a body,” Dunham declares. “You’re just walk- ing around trying to get everywhere, like a floating head making your way through crowds.”


Hard times


Filming of “Girls” wrapped for good last Sep- tember. Then Dunham went straight into stumping for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. “When the show was


over, I had taken all my creative energy and put it into campaigning. Then it was: ‘Hillary Clinton’s not president. Our TV show’s over. Donald Trump is in control of the free world. I guess I’ll be staying in bed today.’”


A fine time


Filming the last season was “overwhelming and beautiful and nostalgic and at times deeply disorient- ing,” says Dunham. For much of its run,


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Lena Dunham is shown here in a scene from “Girls.” The sixth and final season airs Sundays at 10 p.m. EST on HBO.


“Girls” was “the only thing and everything I had,” she says, “which is part of why separating from it is so com- plicated. But I feel really lucky because, so often, a huge marker of your 20s is feeling like you don’t have a place to put your passion and your energy, and like you don’t have a way to feel seen. I never had to strug- gle with that. “I did sort of struggle with going to brunch with my friends. I wasn’t neces- sarily the greatest at the things that are supposed to mark your 20s — moments where you let yourself drift on the tide, even when you’re in pain, and you con- nect with people and go to a party without knowing exactly what time you need to be home. I didn’t have that experience.”


In short, Dunham isn’t Hannah, despite the fact that she did her job so well the distinction was fre- quently lost on “Girls” view- ers.


“Hannah got to be Han- nah, and I got to pretend to be her,” Dunham explains. “Pretending to be her at a party was better for me than actually being at a party. As a result, I got everything I needed in my 20s. I had a different, really amazing, experience.”


Write of passage Dunham is a writer who


can turn out a “Girls” script in a night, and whose sure- ness of vision as reflected in the show seems beyond dis- pute.


“But I’ve had moments of crisis and doubt about the show,” she readily acknowl-


edges, “and I’ve had moments of crisis and doubt that comes from being ages 23 to 30, which is a time rife with crises and doubt — which is what our entire show was about.”


She was 23 when she


started writing the pilot script, and turned 25 while the first season was in pro- duction.


Last June, as the final sea- son was shooting, she crossed the great divide to leave her 20s behind. She has no further pressing need for 20s-generated cri- sis and doubt. She says being 30 comes as a relief.


No longer a prodigy


That’s not a word Dunham condones, but based on her early and multifaceted suc- cess, she has been hailed as something of a wunderkind.


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YOUR WEEKLY SOURCE FOR CELEBRITY NEWS AND TV LISTINGS ◆ February 19 - 25, 2017 Some ‘Girls’ talk with Lena Dunham as final season begins Maybe for her future


projects she’ll be judged on different terms: as an artist for whom age is no longer worth considering.


“I’ve got a lot of ideas and a lot of things to say,” she says when asked what might be ahead. “Whether they’re in the form of books or plays or performance art that’s done in the corner of my parents’ garage, I don’t know. I may not have anoth- er cultural-lightning-rod television show in me, and I wouldn’t be upset if I didn’t, because that’s not an expe- rience you need to repeat over and over in your life. I don’t feel an overwhelming preoccupation with making sure that whatever comes next matches the scale of ‘Girls.’”


Hannah’s last lap


But whither Hannah in these last 10 episodes of her maturing 20-something- ness? “We really tried to do both of the things that are glorious about any final sea- son, which is wrap every- body up in a thoughtful way that makes you feel like you’ve completed a real journey with them — and also, do what the show has always done, which is not be tidy.


“Those two things are kind of at odds,” Dunham allows. “But I don’t think anyone’s done a series fina- le like we did. It’s a very different version of ending a series.”


But that’s months down the line. Right now, surf’s up! Hannah — and “Girls” viewers — are hitting the beach!


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