Earlier this 12 months, Lena Dunham launched her memoir “Famesick.” Within the tell-all guide, she alleged that her “Women” co-star Adam Driver screamed in her face, threw a chair, and even punched a gap in his trailer. Though the actor, finest recognized for his position as Kylo Ren/Ben Solo within the “Star Wars” universe, has but to publicly touch upon the accusations, one in all his costars is talking out. Scarlett Johansson performed the actor’s spouse within the 2019 Noah Baumbach movie “Marriage Story” and labored with him in James Grey’s movie “Paper Tiger,” which is about to debut on the Cannes Movie Competition on Saturday, Could 16.
Regardless of the accusations made by Lena Dunham in her “Famesick” memoir, Johansson has nothing however reward for her “Marriage Story” costar. In September 2025, she instructed PEOPLE journal that it was “nice” working with Driver on the movie.
“I really like Adam as an individual, and he’s a fully extraordinary actor,” she mentioned on the time. “If I might make each film with Adam Driver, I might.”
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Within the 2019 drama, Driver and Johansson play a pair going by way of a tough divorce. In one of many scenes, the pair scream at one another, and Driver’s character, Charlie, even punches a gap by way of the wall as he tells Johansson’s character Nicole, “Every single day I get up and hope you’re lifeless.”
The notorious scene was later utilized by the U.S. Division of Agriculture to be able to scare off a pack of grey wolves that had reportedly been “terrorizing” an Oregon farm’s livestock, based on the Wall Street Journal.
When instructed concerning the information, Johannson joked, “I’m glad we may very well be helpful!”
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In 2019, Johansson instructed As If magazine that the scene was “brutal” to movie. “We spent two total days screaming at one another, brutally screaming and preventing for 2 full days,” she shared on the time.
“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,” she added. “For me, working with different actors is a very necessary a part of what I do … it’s every little thing.”
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Of their new movie “Paper Tiger,” Johansson performs Hester Pearl, the spouse of Irwin Pearl, performed by Miles Teller. The 2 are having fun with a contented life elevating two boys in Eighties New York. Issues take a flip for the more severe when Irwin’s brother, Gary, performed by Adam Driver, arrives and places the household in peril on account of his ties with the Russian mafia.
“I might’ve cherished to have had much more scenework with him, I really like working with him,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter forward of the movie’s premiere on the Cannes movie pageant on Saturday, Could 16.
Thankfully, she had good issues to say about being Teller’s partner this time round.
“He’s so unexpectedly tender,” she mentioned of her relationship with Teller on set. “I went away for a few weeks to do the press for Jurassic — I felt loopy to go away, however I needed to go — and after I was gone, I’d get pictures of my make-up station from Miles, and he’d be like, ‘The place’s Hester?’”
Lena Dunham Described A Difficult Relationship With Adam Driver In Her E book ‘Famesick’
In her memoir “Famesick,” Dunham had rather a lot to say about her “Women” co-star. She revealed that they “felt like companions” and located herself coming to him for recommendation on selections “that weren’t his to make” regardless of the “chair incident.”
As The Blast beforehand reported, Dunham claimed that they have been standing within the kitchen when she “appeared as much as see him smiling at me with one thing so tender, it felt prefer it might solely have been love.”
In one other passage, she wrote, “I spent an inordinate period of time questioning if Adam appreciated me,” including, “He may very well be short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and bodily imposing. He may be protecting, loving even.”
She additionally alleges that they nearly crossed a boundary in their relationship when his now-wife, Joanne Tucker, was out of city. Though she instructed him that he might come over late one night time, she claims she pretended to be asleep as soon as he really arrived.
“If we crossed no matter boundary we have been threatening to cross, the return to work can be tinged with humiliation, that I’d be minimizing any authority I nonetheless had, and that, nevertheless it went, my coronary heart -bruised however improbably not but damaged – would crack,” she wrote within the guide. She alleges that Driver known as to inform her that he was engaged a month after the incident, and the 2 by no means spoke of it once more.
Driver has but to publicly touch upon the allegations.
