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"   Photo: Courtesy of ASOS  \u202AZosia Mamet&amp;#039;s character on \u202C\u202AGirls\u202C\u202A, which returns to HBO for its third season on January 12, might be the most unrelatable of the bunch. Everything about Shoshana is over the top: her na\u00EFvet\u00E9, her whiney voice, her pretty pretty pink Sex and the City-fied dorm room, and, of course, her hair. What is \u202C\u202Awith\u202C\u202A the donuts?\u202C Related: Zosia Mamet Says It&amp;#039;s Going to Be a &amp;quot;Juicy&amp;quot; Season on &amp;#039;Girls&amp;#039;  \u202AIn real life, though, Mamet&amp;#039;s the kind of girl you want to sit on the couch with and polish off a bottle of red wine while watching bad TV (even though you feel a little guilty about not going out). We know because we happened to be sitting next to her at dinner earlier this week to celebrate her January cover of ASOS mag.\u202C Related:   \u202AHere, her real girl thoughts on bad TV, good books, and hating smiling for photos.\u202C \u202AYou&amp;#039;re all smiles on the cover of ASOS. The cover looks great.\u202C \u202AI have a hard time smiling in photos. I don&amp;#039;t really like having my picture taken. It sucks. It&amp;#039;s not fun\u2026 But people sort of know this about me now so Michael [Hauptman, the photographer for the ASOS shoot] came prepared with really great jokes and a wonderful disposition and he made me really comfortable and made me giggle all day long. He got some smiles out of me.\u202C \u202AThe red carpet must be terrifying!\u202C \u202AIt totally depends. Oftentimes my wonderful publicist will make faces behind the photographers for me or yell out things. It helps. Sometimes the photographers will ask me [to smile] enough and it becomes so ridiculous that I smile. But they can also get really aggressive which makes me not want to smile.\u202C Related: Lena Dunham and Bergdorf&amp;#039;s Betty Halbreich Talk Jeggings and Style Blunders  \u202AYou&amp;#039;re on one of everyone&amp;#039;s favorite shows. What are you binge-watching right now?\u202C \u202AI wasn&amp;#039;t allowed to watch television as a kid so when I met my boyfriend I never had a TV. I would watch movies on my computer. But there is incredible television nowadays. The quality of television has just really gone through the roof. And I think it&amp;#039;s really important to just have an indulgence in your life\u202C\u2014\u202Alike something you feel is really just for you because you love it.\u202C \u202AReading books and seeing classic movies and going to the theater or a museum is just so wonderful and enriching, but like sometimes you just need to shut off. And that&amp;#039;s how I feel about watching good, entertaining television.\u202C \u202ASo what&amp;#039;s on your queue right now?\u202C  \u202AScandal, Breaking Bad, and Nashville. Connie Britton is my idol. I want to be her when I grow up. [Ed. note: Don&amp;#039;t we all\u2026]\u202C Related: Lena Dunham on Mindy Kaling, Rachel Antonoff, and the Epic &amp;#039;Girls&amp;#039; Finale  \u202AOkay, and now I have to ask you about &amp;#039;Girls.&amp;#039; People have such a strong connection to it. They love it. They love to hate it. They talk about it endlessly. Why do you think that is?\u202C \u202AWe didn&amp;#039;t put makeup on anything. We really show, in all of its depressing glory, what is to be in your early to mid 20s in New York trying to be an artist. I think that people felt like Lena was telling their story and that she wasn&amp;#039;t trying to make it you know\u2026 our sex scenes are \u202C\u202Aawkward\u202C\u202A and people stay single for a long time. We try to portray life as true to form as possible. I think people felt that. I hope. But we&amp;#039;re very... on the table. And we bear a lot metaphorically and literally, and so it is this bizarre experience because people do think a) that we&amp;#039;re our characters and b) that they know us. It&amp;#039;s very odd.\u202C \u202AWhat&amp;#039;s the weirdest fan reaction you&amp;#039;ve encountered?\u202C People yell out &amp;#039;Shoshanna&amp;#039; in the street which is really funny. Oftentimes people are disappointed that I&amp;#039;m not like her. Not like &amp;#039;How dare you&amp;#039; but you see it on their face, just when I&amp;#039;m in jeans and a t-shirt and my hair is dirty, they&amp;#039;re like &amp;#039;What!?&amp;#039; Or when they see my nails are clearly not done, or when they ask me certain things, like dating advice, and I&amp;#039;m the wrong person to ask, and it&amp;#039;s something about them just gets a little sad. We&amp;#039;re so grateful and humble that our show is embraced as the way it has been. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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