May 26, 2026 · 1:04:14

Lena Dunham on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

with LD Lena Dunham

The Hang, in Short

Natalie Portman calls in from France to gush about Lena Dunham's directing. The Black Swan actress can't get over how specific Lena's notes are, how she genuinely compliments actors instead of just saying "good job," and how she radiates kindness to everyone on set of their romcom together. Big praise. Then things get weird when Natalie asks about pig breeds (she wants one but can't have it in France because wild boars apparently mate with domestic pigs and create dangerous hybrids). Amy shares her SNL theory that bigger heads equal bigger paychecks, which means Natalie's now doomed to notice head sizes forever. They fight over who gets to be married to Rashida Jones. Amy wears young boy's hats. The Lonely Island podcast comes up. Nobody's quite sure what separates pigs from boars.

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  1. 0:05

    Hello everyone. Welcome to another

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    episode of Good Hang. We have Lena

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    Dunham with us today. Lena, actress,

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    writer, producer, creator of Girls,

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    best-selling author of her memoir,

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    Famesick. We are going to get into it

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    with Lena. We are going to talk about um

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    Norah Efron. We're going to talk about

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    the productivity myth and how we're all

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    suffering because of it. We're going to

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    talk about whether or not one should go

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    on Great British Bake Off. Is it

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    actually worth it? We are going to get

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    into so much good stuff today. We had a

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    great conversation and we always like to

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    talk to somebody who knows our guest who

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    has a question for our guest and wants

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    to speak well behind their back. And we

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    spoke to Natalie Portman,

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    classy actress. Natalie, you know her

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    from the Black Swan, from rapping on

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    SNL, from a little indie called Star

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    Wars. and she and Lena are working on a

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    romcom together. So, uh, let's get

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    Natalie on the horn, I believe. Um,

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