Issy Wood and Lena Dunham on Friendship, Dark Humor, and the Story Behind Wood’s New Music Video

The first order of the day was to find a suitable muse who could act as a proxy, of sorts, for Wood. Nef was in London at the time, filming Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and on a rare day off the trio met up to shoot. “I’ve worked with Hari in lots of different ways over the years, and I just knew that she would get it,” Dunham explains. “Instead of having to push to understand the emotions of the video, they would just be right there, as for Hari, it’s always so beautifully on the surface, and that’s what we wanted—for it to feel simple, but really emotional.” For Nef, the feeling is mutual. “There’s trust and love between Lena and me: We understand each other, it’s quasi-telepathic sometimes,” she says. “This music video demanded a vulnerability I could offer freely to Lena, and vice versa. I guess our idea of a good time is plumbing the depths of feminine feeling!”

Nef as painted by Wood for the video. Photo: Courtesy of Lena Dunham

Then, there was the narrative of the video to get to grips with—namely, the story of a woman on the verge of a fuckboy-induced breakdown. While it was always meant to focus on the inner life of the character at its center, the close-up shots of Nef’s skin being painted (by Wood, naturally) with an array of cryptic motifs—Diet Coke cans, clocks, pills, scissors, a toothbrush—came to Dunham in a dream while she was on a flight, leading her to encourage Wood to use body paints for the first time. “I just said to Issy, make a list of items that you associate with, like, abject depression, and that’s what she came up with,” Dunham says. “I think that she should set up a realist body painting stand where kids come and get a crumpled tissue painted on their face, or, you know, eight pills of Prozac, but she hasn’t taken me up on that yet.” Adds Wood: “I’m just waiting for the school holidays to start.”

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