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PASADENA -- Lena Dunham, writer and star of HBO's "Girls," remained cool and reasonably civil when a male writer during a Television Critics Association panel here asks her why "your character is often naked at random times for no reason."
Dunham's fellow creators weren't nearly so diplomatic.
"It's a realistic expression of what it's like to be alive," Dunham said in response. "If you are not into me that's your problem and you are going to have to kind of work that out."
RELATED: HBO'S 'GIRLS' IS GETTING BACKLASHAt that point, an obviously infuriated executive producer Judd Apatow jumped in to fire back at the questioner.
"Do you have a girlfriend?" he asked to the reporter. "Just ask her that whole question as you wrote it . . . and tell me how it goes tonight."
Apatow then called for the next question and the panel shifted to other questions about the acclaimed "Girls," whose third season launches Sunday night at 10.
RELATED: WATCH: 'GIRLS' SEASON 3 TRAILER DEBUTSDunham said she expects more of the stories to branch out beyond the show's core cast this season, and that could mean more diversity. She added that she "loves" all the characters even when they behave badly and become obnoxious, because that only makes them realistic.
Partway through, though, the discussion returned to the nudity business.
"I'm sorry, I was spacing out because I'm in such a rage spiral about that guy's question," said executive producer Jenni Konner. "This idea that you would accuse a woman of showing her body too much . . . just makes me sort of sick."
Apatow also revisited the sore spot while answering a separate question about why the show's characters sometimes act in uncomfortable ways.
"Because it's real, it touches on people's insecurities," he said. "Sometimes it's hard to watch because everybody relates to it in some way. Like when that guy goes in the mirror and looks at himself naked, he feels bad and he relates. He's like, 'Why is anyone naked?' "
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