'Girls' stars dish on HBO comedy's fourth season.

AuthorMoore, Frazier
PositionLiving

Byline: Frazier Moore

NEW YORK -- Tonight, the girls of "Girls'' return for a fourth season of wayward living in and out of New York.

Premiering at 9 p.m. on HBO, the new season of this hit comedy finds Jessa (Jemima Kirke) more adrift than ever; Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) going after her first grown-up job; Marnie (Allison Williams) in yet another ill-advised relationship; and Hannah (Lena Dunham, who is also the series' creator and a writer, producer and director) setting off for the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

This week, the four "Girls'' stars joined an Associated Press reporter for a chat about twentysomething obstacles, make-believe hanky-panky and other issues during a conversation stoked by news that "Girls'' has been picked up for a fifth season.

"I'm excited,'' Dunham began, looking every bit excited, "because when you hear a show went for five seasons, it sounds like they really DID it! No matter how many more we do after that, if there were FIVE seasons you think, 'Wow, that show did OK.' ''

Digging deeper

ZOSIA MAMET: Creatively, it's even more rewarding now than when we first started. We've all gotten so close, so we can delve so much deeper. These characters all have a through-line, but every year we're like, "Who are they gonna be this year? What are they gonna do?'' So it's always exciting and challenging.

LD: It's fun to tell the girls at the beginning of the season, "Here's the basic gist.'' And they're like, "WTF!'' And then we get to talk about it.

Everyone's job is to progress these characters. Our costume designer is a huge part of that. This year, Marnie is dressing for what she thinks her relationship with Desi is like: very Brooklyn. But she's so Type A she tries to do a PERFECT version of Brooklyn and it ends up looking cheesy. Shoshanna's going out on all these job interviews, so she has what she thinks is a professional wardrobe. But it's HER version of it: a weird Chanel boucle suit and a too-big barrette. Jessa used to dress eccentrically, like Helena Bonham Carter, but ...

JEMIMA KIRKE: Now she's toning it down, dressing less to...

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