Judd Apatow Jenni Konner and Lena Dunham speak onstage during the 'Girls' panel discussion at the HBO portion of the Television Critics Association tour on Jan. 9 2014 in Pasadena Calif.(Photo Frederick M. Brown Getty Images)
It was enough to send Girls executive producer Jenni Konner into a rage spiral.
A question from a reporter at Thursday's Girls panel at the Television Critics Association press tour was met with biting responses from Konner and fellow producer Judd Apatow.
The subject Creator/actress/writer/producer Lena Dunham's nudity on the HBO show.
I don't get the purpose of all of the nudity on the show by you (Lena Dunham) particularly the reporter started out and I feel like I'm walking into a trap where you go 'Nobody complains about the nudity on Game of Thrones ' but I get why they are doing it. They are doing it to be salacious and titillate people. And your character is often naked just at random times for no reason.
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Dunham began to explain It's because it's a realistic expression of what it's like to be alive I think. And I totally get it. If you are not into me that's your problem and you are going to have to work that out with whatever professionals you've hired.
But Apatow jumped in at that point asking the reporter Do you have a girlfriend ... Let's see how she likes you when you quote that with your question and just write the whole question as you stated it. ... Then tell me how it goes tonight.
Maybe she's a misogynist said Konner.
And Konner had more to say. In response to an unrelated question later in the panel she admitted she was distracted.
I literally was spacing out because I'm in such a rage spiral about that guy that I literally could not hear Konner said. I'm so sorry. I really don't mean to disrespect you. I just was looking at him and going into this rage this idea that you would talk to a woman like that and accuse a woman of showing her body too much. The idea it just makes me sort of sick and so I apologize to everyone. I'm going to try to focus now but if I space out it will be because of that guy.
Apatow also aired his frustrations on Twitter after the panel So three years into Girls a guy asks about nudity like it is episode one. That is like waiting three years to ask M Weiner about advertising he wrote referring to Mad Men's creator Matthew Weiner and the show's subject matter.
So three years into Girls a guy asks about nudity like it is episode one. That is like waiting three years to ask M Weiner about advertising
Judd Apatow ( JuddApatow) January 10 2014
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