Actor Adam Driver is lastly talking out in regards to the accusations Lena Dunham made about him in her new memoir, “Famesick.” Within the tell-all ebook, she alleges that he screamed in her face, threw a chair, and even as soon as punched a gap within the wall of his trailer. The “Star Wars” actor was requested whether or not there was any fact to these allegations whereas selling his new film, “Paper Tiger,” on the Cannes Movie Pageant.
The “Marriage Story” actor was fast to close down a query in regards to the allegations that Lena Dunham made towards him in her “Famesick” memoir whereas selling his newest movie. On the Cannes press convention, Driver was requested if there was any fact to what she wrote within the ebook.
“I’ve no touch upon any of that,” he stated, as per Deadline. “I’m saving all of it for my ebook.” The remark, which might be heard within the video above, drew laughter from the group.
It’s a little bit of a tongue-in-cheek response from the notoriously personal actor who most likely doesn’t truly plan on writing a ebook. Then once more, the response to Dunham’s memoir confirmed that loads of followers could be serious about listening to his facet of the story.
Inside Lena Dunham’s ‘Famesick’ Allegations
Lena Dunham performed the lead character Hannah within the HBO comedy “Ladies,” which ran from 2012 to 2017. Adam Driver performed her on-again, off-again boyfriend, additionally named Adam, though their relationship was usually portrayed as poisonous. Within the ebook, Dunham claimed that Driver was “verbally aggressive” in direction of her and as soon as “hurled a chair on the wall subsequent to me.”
“I bear in mind doing a combat scene with Adam and the way scary it was to satisfy somebody so completely current with such absence,” Dunham wrote in her tell-all ebook. “Late one evening, as we practiced strains in my trailer, I discovered that mine have been all of a sudden gone. I knew I’d written them. I’d recognized them solely minutes earlier than. However after I opened my mouth, all that got here out was a stammer — till lastly, Adam screamed, ‘F-CKING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair on the wall subsequent to me. ‘WAKE THE F-CK UP,’ he instructed me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.’”
Lena Dunham Claims Driver ‘Hurled’ Her Round Throughout An Intimate Scene
Whereas filming an intimate scene for the present’s first season, Dunham, who was additionally the present’s creator, author, and director, alleged that her “cautious blocking went out the window.” She claims that the “Home of Gucci” actor “hurled me this manner and that.”
Within the ebook, she claimed she was so “shocked” that she “couldn’t communicate for a second,” and went on to put in writing that she was “not sure of what had occurred.”
“Had I misplaced directorial authority, allowed the scene to go off the rails, not given correct directions? Would I be faraway from my command submit instantly?” Dunham puzzled following the second.
Scarlett Johansson Weighs In On Working With Adam Driver
Lena Dunham isn’t the one one to have a combat scene with Driver. “Avengers” actress Scarlett Johansson “spent two complete days” screaming on the actor whereas filming Noah Baumbach’s 2019 drama “Marriage Story,” which tells the story of a pair preventing over custody of their son whereas going by way of a tumultuous divorce.
“We spent two complete days screaming at one another, brutally screaming and preventing for 2 full days,” she instructed As If journal on the time, as reported by PEOPLE journal.
“It was exhausting, but when I didn’t have as robust an actor as Adam to take all of the stuff I used to be giving him, I might have been misplaced,” Johansson stated. “For me, working with different actors is a extremely vital a part of what I do … it’s the whole lot.”
The scene was so aggressive that the U.S. Division of Agriculture truly blasted audio of their argument scenes to scare away a pack of grey wolves that have been reportedly “terrorizing” an Oregon farm’s livestock, as per The Wall Street Journal.
Scarlett Johansson Has Nothing However Reward For Driver
In 2025, the “Jurassic World Rebirth” actress instructed PEOPLE journal that she had a “nice” expertise working with Driver. “I like Adam as an individual, and he’s a fully extraordinary actor,” she stated on the time. “If I may make each film with Adam Driver, I might.”
After filming “Marriage Story,” she reunited with Driver on the set of “Paper Tiger,” though she wasn’t at Cannes on account of a scheduling battle. Though she was married to Miles Teller’s character and had restricted scenes with Driver, she had nothing however constructive issues to say about him.
“I might’ve cherished to have had much more scenework with him. I like working with him,” Johansson instructed The Hollywood Reporter forward of the “Paper Tiger” premiere.
“Star Wars” actress Daisy Ridley additionally had positive things to say about working with the actor, regardless of Dunham’s accusations.
