Can the girls of Girls make it in Hollywood?

Now that the HBO show is over, will Lena Dunham and company head to the big screen?

The girls of 'Girls.'
(Image credit: Mark Schafer/courtesy of HBO)

What will the girls of Girls do next? Lena Dunham's incisive, often hilarious dramedy series ends Sunday night, and while she has made seemingly sincere overtures about revisiting the characters for a Sex and the City-style future movie, it's safe to say that the series' cast will be embarking on other endeavors for now. Some of the actors may well find another television series, but Dunham got her start in feature films, and many of her coworkers have done some movie-land moonlighting during their show's six seasons. Now that they're all free of their HBO commitment, what might the four core Girls look like on the big screen?

It's a little bit surprising that more hints aren't out there already; Game of Thrones folks started popping up in studio movies pretty quickly, but the ladies of Girls — Dunham, Jemima Kirke, Allison Williams, and Zosia Mamet — have made themselves scarcer. The biggest hit any of them have experienced just came out this year, when Allison Williams played the female lead in the sociological horror smash Get Out. It's her first real movie role, and by the end of its theatrical run will have been seen by approximately 20 million people. In contrast, the highest-rated episode of Girls ever barely crested the one-million mark.

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Jesse Hassenger

Jesse Hassenger's film and culture criticism has appeared in The Onion's A.V. Club, Brooklyn Magazine, and Men's Journal online, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, where he also writes fiction, edits textbooks, and helps run SportsAlcohol.com, a pop culture blog and podcast.