Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Lena Dunham has joined the cast of director Quentin Tarantino's next film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The film -- set in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, when the infamous Manson Family murders took place and resulted in eight deaths -- will feature Dunham portraying a character named Gypsy, Variety reported. Dunham signed onto the project along with Austin Butler, Lorenza Izzo and Maya Hawke, the daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman -- the star of Tarantino's Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction.