Lena Dunham compares Britney Spears to Marilyn Monroe in a new interview with Interview Magazine. “The closest person we have in contemporary culture to Marilyn is Britney Spears. Her image has been projected upon and projected upon, but she’s dared to do something Marilyn was never able to do, which is age in front of us, and at times messily.” “We don’t do this to men in the same way.”