{"id":53191,"date":"2024-06-13T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2056389"},"modified":"2024-06-13T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T15:17:40","slug":"lena-dunham-recalls-moment-filming-in-auschwitz-it-broke-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/lena-dunham-recalls-moment-filming-in-auschwitz-it-broke-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham recalls moment filming in Auschwitz: \u201cIt broke my heart\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dunham stars alongside Stephen Fry in new movie Treasure. <\/p>

By Katelyn Mensah\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 13 June 2024 at 14:08 PM<\/p>

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Lena Dunham has opened up about her experience filming in Auschwitz in new film, Treasure.<\/p>\n

Treasure, which is to be released in cinemas from Friday 14th June, stars Dunham alongside Stephen Fry as a father and daughter who go on a road trip in 1990s Poland. Based on the book Too Many Men by Lily Brett, it follows Ruth (Dunham) and her father Edek (Fry), \u201ca charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor\u201d, on a journey to his homeland.<\/p>\n

As told through the synopsis, Ruth is \u201ceager to make sense of her family\u2019s past\u201d while Edek embarks on a trip \u201cwith his own agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, Fry explained that they filmed in Auschwitz in the early days of production and were shown around by \u201ca very wonderful person from the Memorial Trust\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dunham further elaborated on what it was like to film the movie there, admitting it broke her heart to see Fry on his own in between takes.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham.<\/span><\/figcaption> Treasure<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

She explained: \u201cIt\u2019s such a unique opportunity to be able to be shown around from the Memorial Trust so carefully, but I realised that I don\u2019t tend to do actorly decisions about what I will and won\u2019t do to inform my character. But I really felt as though\u2026 my character has never been there, his character knows what it is, my character is a tourist seeing it for the first time, and his character is a survivor.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I felt if I had a sense of what the inside of the place was, if I had a sense of, you know, the level of detail that we would have gotten that I would not have been able to maintain that kind of, you know, at times insensitive distance and nagging need that she has for her father.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dunham explained that when they arrived, director Julia von Heinz would allow the pair to \u201cchat away\u201d, but during one of the shoots, Dunham was asked to leave Fry along for the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just have to\u2026 you can\u2019t talk to him. You have to let him be. Let him see it, let him take it in,\u201d she was told.<\/p>\n

Dunham told RadioTimes.com<\/strong>: \u201cIt broke my heart because we\u2019d finish [the] take and we\u2019d all walk over to have some hot tea and connect and he just cut such a lonely figure across the way by himself, looking around.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything in me wanted to go over to him, but I realised that was also brilliant of Julia, because that\u2019s the story. That\u2019s the lonely figure that cuts through his life.\u201d<\/p>

Treasure is available to watch in UK cinemas from Friday 14th June.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Check out more of our Film<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what\u2019s on. <\/strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n

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