When Girls Met Eloise
By Amy Adams for Vanity Fair September 2011
A deliveryman brings lunch to the Girls set at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens.
Twenty-seven-year-old director, writer, producer, and star Lena Dunham with a crew of seasoned and awed pros. The scene: Zosia Mamet’s Shoshanna and Allison Williams’s Marnie are about to battle it out.
While on break from shooting at a pub, leading man Adam Driver observes a young fan admiring Dunham’s new ink.
A deliveryman brings lunch to the Girls set at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens.
When renowned illustrator Hilary Knight heard that Lena Dunham had tattooed his most famous character, rambunctious six-year-old Eloise, onto her backside, he sent Dunham a signed set of the beloved Eloise children’s books. Dunham replied with an invitation to visit the cast and crew on the set of her award-winning show. Here, a look into the filming of the third season of HBO’s Girls, through the eyes of Hilary Knight.