I used to think that Gwyneth Paltrow would never deign to appear on a television show. Surely she would find the experience too peasanty, right? But then she kept appearing on Glee, mostly because she was trying to make her singing career happen, and partly because she’s been banging one of the Glee producers for a while. As the years have gone by, I tend to believe that Gwyneth really isn’t getting the kind of film offers she believes are her due (coughMortdecaicough), so why not simply look for more television work? Would that help or hurt Gwyneth’s brand these days? She is trying to shill more to the commoners, after all. Fine, she’ll do TV! But only if it’s HBO! And that’s just what Lena Dunham was hoping for.

Kerry Washington isn’t the only mega-star Lena Dunham wants to see on Girls. She also wouldn’t mind adding Gwyneth Paltrow to her long list of celeb guest stars.

“We would love it,” Dunham told me at the Girls PaleyFest panel.

“Fingers crossed,” her producing partner Jenni Konner added.

Dunham said, “We’d be very grateful.”

She and Konner recently had an Instagram lovefest with the Oscar winner. Dunham marked her first “foodgram” when she posted a photo of turkey chili that Konner had made from a recipe featured in Paltrow’s cookbook, It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great.

“Fact: @campsucks [Konner] makes a mean turkey chili care of @gwynethpaltrow’s It’s All Good,” she wrote. “This is probably the only foodgram I’ll ever do- I just felt so loved. Another fact- as I took home my doggie bag Jenni joyfully yelled “it’s protein packed!”

Dunham told me, “Jenny made me that chili and I took it back to the hotel where I was staying. I had room service heat it up for me and then I just couldn’t shut up about the chili!”

[From E! News]

Gwyneth would probably fit into the Girls world pretty well. I mean, that’s her world. Second-generation Hollywood/New York upper-crust/rich white girl/expensive education/born on third base and thinks she hit a triple. Would Gwyneth deign to guest-star on it? Probably.

Speaking of Gwyneth’s upper-crust world, she posted this for International Women’s Day on Sunday. I know this is just a collection of her previous Instagrams, but surely she’s deigned to take a photograph of a rare friend who happens to also be a woman of color? This collection is very white, that’s all I’m saying.

Shouldn’t everyday be all of us equally day? I guess we’re #notthere #internationalwomensday @iwd2015 @clintonfoundation

A video posted by Gwyneth Paltrow (@gwynethpaltrow) on Mar 8, 2015 at 8:09pm PDT

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.