article_snippet: The 36-minute HBO film, which profiles the esteemed 88-year-old New Yorker and Mr Knight storied career, first came about in 2013 after Mr Knight heard that Miss Dunham, 28, had a tattoo of Eloise on Eloise back, and wrote to the Girls creator to initiate contact.
article_snippet: Mr Knight wrote to Miss Dunham (C) about Miss Dunham (C) Eloise tattoo in February 2013.
article_snippet: her Eloise tattoo was Miss Dunham (C) very first inking, which Miss Dunham (C) had done in a New Mexico strip mall when Miss Dunham (C) was 17. '
article_snippet: That was her Eloise tattoo because it felt like the only thing that I knew I would never get sick of,' Miss Dunham (C) told The New York Daily News last month at the film's Sundance premiere. '
article_snippet: My childhood affinity for Miss Dunham (C) never wavered, and I felt so connected to the character, and tattoos are about self-expression and self-knowledge, and that seemed like the perfect entrée into this.'
highlights_snippet: Mr Knight approached Miss Dunham in 2013 after hearing about the tattoo she has of Eloise on she back, igniting a close friendship .