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[quote=Anonymous]I think Lena is a mediocre to sub-par actress BUT her screenwriting is under appreciated by the general public. I think it's respected within the industry but especially because a lot of her writing has been for TV, people don't realize how good it is.

She writes extremely natural, incisive dialogue and her work is often culturally relevant in inventive ways -- she understood the millennial zeitgeist in a way few other writers did at the time she wrote Tiny Furniture and Girls.

Her more recent work hasn't been as good but still not bad. Too Much was above average, I just think it was miscast (love Megan Stalter but the rest of the cast didn't feel right).

Lena's public persona has always been problematic, she is genuinely an annoying person, but there are plenty of other pretty actresses with similar backgrounds and personalities that don't engender the same level of revulsion. Taylor Swift is a good example. Maude Apatow. Amanda Siefried. Dakota Johnson. They are all weird and kind of grating but they are very conventionally pretty and people instinctively give them the benefit of the doubt. Lena has never been able to lean on her looks yet she's really made something of herself, despite having a weird personality that is hard in large doses. That's actually really something.[/quote]

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