It’s May 2012 and one afternoon an email arrived in my inbox. ‘Hello’, it began, ‘I’m writing from the Art Department of an HBO show called ‘Girls’. We’d love to buy and use your Oscar Wilde print on one of our sets.’
This was pretty amazing. I’d not seen the show (I was sans satellite TV) but I knew it was a critical and audience hit, so I was completely excited to be involved (I soon got to see series 1 and loved it, and now I’m watching series 2 and ditto, but moreso).
Things move fast in TV production and everything has to happen right away (I know, I work as a writer in TV), and by the time the nice person at HBO had arranged for me to use their FedEx account it was too late - Friday afternoon, and they were recording on Wednesday. So I sorted out a secure way for them to receive an enlarged version digitally, sent it over, they printed it and framed it and pow - there it is, above, on set in the opening minutes of series 2 episode 1 (production designer Matt Munn explains here that ‘It feels like the type of Oscar Wilde poster that would be on a wall in Williamsburg’ - so kudos to me for being on the hipster wavelength I guess…).
Hannah (spoiler alert) split up with Sandy in episode 2, so it was bye-bye to Oscar & Morrissey, but just seeing the print there on the set of ‘Girls’ has kind of completely made my year. So thanks to everyone at HBO who I dealt with, you were great.
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