When a group of young girls get together, be sure to expect a lot of laughter and gossiping to ensue. That's exactly what Girls stars Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, and Zosia Mamet did when they met with Entertainment Weekly in Brooklyn - laughed and gossiped and laughed some more.
"When I hear the cast of Friends talk about missing each other every day and going on vacation together, I think: That will be us," said creator Dunham.
The girls from the HBO series Girls dish out on their characters and how much they relate to them, and even compare themselves with Sex and the City characters!
"Part of me knows Shoshanna intrinsically because we've got this amazing platform to play characters who are allowed to grow. I think I don't know her in the way she doesn't know herself yet," said Mamet.
Meanwhile, Williams said that her character Marnie is hard to peg. "When someone asks me who my character is, it's hard to answer. I don't really have a formula for who she is," she admitted.
However, there's no character harder to identify with than Jessa, who is played by Kirke. "We've always joked that Jessa's the person who would start speaking fluent Chinese but didn't know what Facebook or a text message was," said Dunham. "This season we really start to figure out who Jessa is, and where her vulnerabilities come from."
As for SATC references, producer Judd Apatow once compared Marnie to Charlotte because she was "the normal one." But Dunham begs to differ. She also points at Shoshanna as the Samantha of the group.
"She's got a big sex scene in episode 9," teased Dunham. It's a very sexy scene, and the spoiler that I'll give you is that her sneakers are on. She's wearing Keds and a bra, and she's naked besides that. Someone said it was weird to watch because it was sexy."
Season 4 of Girls will start with Hannah played by Dunham going to Iowa for graduate school. Marnie is attempting to launch her music career while Shoshanna will start working. Jessa is still pretty messed up and is trying to figure out her direction in life.
"Something I thought about a lot was how when you're in your 20s, there's a feeling of 'When I decide to be an adult, this will all work out.' People start making good choices: They get a job, they figure out how to graduate, they get sober. But just making the good choice isn't enough to save you," Dunham noted.