The notion of nudity as bravery is something of an insult for Hoffmann. “People respond to me in the same way they respond to Lena, because I am also not your typically, whatever, sexy woman, or I’m not seen that way.”

“ I do stand by what I said about Angelina Jolie and Lena Dunham,” Hoffman says. I’m very comfortable with nudity.” Hoffmann has spoken out previously against those who call Dunham’s nudity on the show “brave,” saying that would not be the commentary if she were Angelina Jolie. It was this unusual upbringing among the artists of 1980s New York, she says, that made her “very comfortable with my body.

Once a child actor with roles in Field Of Dreams, Uncle Buck and Sleepless in Seattle, Hoffman grew up partly at the infamous Chelsea Hotel.

Who could forget Gaby Hoffmann’s birthing-in-the-bath scene in Girls? Or the drug-addled moment she invents the name “Moppa” for her transgender parent in Transparent? Both of these roles have snagged Hoffmann Emmy noms this year–a feat Hoffmann describes as “ lovely, but very strange to me.”

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