Who knew?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOdZ1pajS-I

Lena Dunham on Eloise:

“I think so many young women were obsessed with Eloise’s unruly magic,” she said. “She’s just such a remarkably independent, vanity-free, complex little girl, and as a little girl you don’t see that many representations of yourself beyond a good little child with pigtails. So it was meaningful.”

“The tattoo is what caused Hilary Knight to make contact with me,” said the actress/director/author/producer. Having heard there was an up-and-coming TV star with a tattoo of his work, “he sent me a letter, which is very old-school, and some signed books, which, obviously, for an Eloise fanatic is a huge deal.”

Dunham said that after striking up a friendship with the 88-year-old New Yorker, she “very quickly realized that he had a very unique story that needed to be told and that (her friend Matt Wolf, who directed the film) was the person to tell it.”

“It’s Me, Hilary” was accepted into the Sundance festival’s documentary-shorts category and will air on HBO.