--- title: Lena Dunham Is Going to Mess Everything Up on "Scandal" Next Week description: The "Girls" star has a guest role on the ABC drama canonical: https://time.com/3743954/lena-dunham-scandal/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-13T14:04:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:08:42.083Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Lena Dunham Is Going to Mess Everything Up on Scandal" Next Week og:description: The "Girls" star has a guest role on the ABC drama og:url: https://time.com/3743954/lena-dunham-scandal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfc77e362f42564c/6987837f8e0601165d45ac3e/lena-dunham-scandal.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Celebrities Visit "Late Show With David Letterman" - March 12, 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lena Dunham Is Going to Mess Everything Up on Scandal" Next Week twitter:description: The "Girls" star has a guest role on the ABC drama twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfc77e362f42564c/6987837f8e0601165d45ac3e/lena-dunham-scandal.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lena Dunham Is Going to Mess Everything Up on _Scandal_ Next Week by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 13, 2015 2:04 PM CUT  Lena Dunham arrives for the "Late Show with David Letterman" at Ed Sullivan Theater on March 12, 2015 in New York City. Lena Dunham arrives for the "Late Show with David Letterman" at Ed Sullivan Theater on March 12, 2015 in New York City.Donna Ward—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 13, 2015 2:04 PM CUT As if Olivia Pope didn’t have enough problems, Lena Dunham is set to guest star on the next episode of _Scandal_, and if the promo is any indication, she’ll bring all the destructive energy of her _Girls_ character Hannah Horvath. Dunham plays a writer with a book that threatens to reveal some of Washington’s dirtiest secrets, which spells big trouble for Pope. The episode, “It’s Good to Be Kink,” airs Thursday March 19 on ABC. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3743954/lena-dunham-scandal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3743954/lena-dunham-scandal/"},"headline":"Lena Dunham Is Going to Mess Everything Up on Scandal Next Week","datePublished":"2015-03-13T14:04:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:08:42.083Z","description":"The Girls star has a guest role on the ABC drama","url":"https://time.com/3743954/lena-dunham-scandal/","keywords":["Television","girls","lena dunham","Scandal","Kerry Washington"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfc77e362f42564c/6987837f8e0601165d45ac3e/lena-dunham-scandal.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfc77e362f42564c/6987837f8e0601165d45ac3e/lena-dunham-scandal.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrities Visit \"Late Show With David Letterman\" - March 12, 2015","caption":"Celebrities Visit \"Late Show With David Letterman\" - March 12, 2015","creditText":"Donna Ward—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3743954/lena-dunham-scandal/","name":"Lena Dunham Is Going to Mess Everything Up on Scandal Next Week"}}]}] ```