Adam Driver finally broke his silence on the explosive claims his former Girls boss Lena Dunham made in her second memoir Famesick last month.
In the 416-page tell-all, the 40-year-old showrunner accused the ‘spectacularly rude’ 42-year-old of screaming at her inside her trailer on the set of the HBO series and ‘hurled a chair at the wall next to me’ as well as punching a hole in his own trailer wall.
Dunham also claimed Driver – who played her character Hannah Horvath’s on/off emotionally-unstable boyfriend Adam Sackler – ignored the ‘careful blocking’ of their first sex scene and ‘hurled me this way and that.’
‘Stunned, I couldn’t speak for a moment,’ the eight-time Emmy nominee wrote.
‘Unsure of what had happened — had I lost directorial authority, allowed the scene to go off the rails, not given proper instructions? Would I be removed from my command post immediately?’
Dunham didn’t feel she had the skill set to inform the two-time Oscar nominee, ‘I am your boss, you can’t speak to me this way.’
Adam Driver finally broke his silence on the explosive claims his former Girls boss Lena Dunham made in her second memoir Famesick last month (pictured in 2013)
‘At that point in my 20s, I still thought that’s what great male geniuses do – eviscerate you,’ the native New Yorker told The Guardian on April 11.
‘Which is weird, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that.’
On Sunday morning, Driver officially responded to Dunham during a Cannes Film Festival press conference for his new film Paper Tiger with a sarcastic remark: ‘I have no comment on that, I’m saving it all for my book.’
And it wasn’t all about on-set bad behavior as the Too Much co-creator also claimed she nearly had an affair with the Star Wars alum one month before he got engaged to his wife Joanne Tucker in 2012.
Dunham wrote that she ghosted Driver once he arrived to her New York City home: ‘If we crossed whatever boundary we were threatening to cross, the return to work would be tinged with humiliation.’
The Father Mother Sister Brother actor allegedly told the Good Thing Going Productions founder about the incident: ‘When my girl was away, I realized I’m no good alone. I need someone to keep me in line.’
On June 22, Driver and his 42-year-old former Juilliard School sweetheart will celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary, and they’re proud parents of a 10-year-old son and a three-year-old daughter.
Tucker previously guest starred as the character Ruthie in a 2016 episode of Girls where Adam is cheating on Hannah with her best friend Jessa Johnson (Jemima Kirke).
The Independent Spirit Award winner portrays former police officer Gary Pearl in James Gray’s critically-acclaimed crime drama Paper Tiger, which received a 10-minute standing ovation at the Grand Theatre Lumiere on Saturday.
In the 416-page tell-all, the 40-year-old showrunner accused the ‘spectacularly rude’ 42-year-old of screaming at her inside her trailer on the set of the HBO series and ‘hurled a chair at the wall next to me’ as well as punching a hole in his own trailer wall (pictured March 30)
Dunham also claimed Driver – who played her character Hannah Horvath’s on/off emotionally-unstable boyfriend Adam Sackler – ignored the ‘careful blocking’ of their first sex scene and ‘hurled me this way and that’
‘Stunned, I couldn’t speak for a moment,’ the eight-time Emmy nominee wrote. ‘Unsure of what had happened — had I lost directorial authority, allowed the scene to go off the rails, not given proper instructions? Would I be removed from my command post immediately?’
Dunham didn’t feel she had the skill set to inform the two-time Oscar nominee, ‘I am your boss, you can’t speak to me this way’
‘At that point in my 20s, I still thought that’s what great male geniuses do – eviscerate you,’ the native New Yorker told The Guardian on April 11. ‘Which is weird, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that’
On Sunday morning, Driver officially responded to Dunham during a Cannes Film Festival press conference for his new film Paper Tiger with a sarcastic remark: ‘I have no comment on that, I’m saving it all for my book’
And it wasn’t all about on-set bad behavior as the Too Much co-creator also claimed she nearly had an affair with the Star Wars alum one month before he got engaged to his wife Joanne Tucker (L, pictured Saturday) in 2012
On June 22, Driver and his 42-year-old former Juilliard School sweetheart will celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary, and they’re proud parents of a 10-year-old son and a three-year-old daughter
The Independent Spirit Award winner portrays former police officer Gary Pearl in James Gray’s critically-acclaimed crime drama Paper Tiger, which received a 10-minute standing ovation at the Grand Theatre Lumiere on Saturday
Dunham is scheduled to conclude her seven-date book tour this Wednesday night at LiveTalks LA at Frost Auditorium in Culver City, California with celebrity moderator Rita Wilson, which costs $65 per person (pictured April 24)
Neon has already acquired North American distribution for the Russian mafia flick also starring Scarlett Johansson, Miles Teller, Gavin Goudey, Roman Engel and Victor Ptak.
The cast and crew of Paper Tiger will find out whether they won the festival’s top prize, Palme d’Or, this Saturday.
Driver’s other upcoming projects include Ron Howard’s war drama Alone at Dawn for Amazon MGM Studios, Chris Rock’s drama Misty Green for A24, Netflix hostage drama Series Rabbit, Rabbit as well as Apple TV+ drama series The Dealer.
Meanwhile, Dunham is scheduled to conclude her seven-date book tour this Wednesday night at LiveTalks LA at Frost Auditorium in Culver City, California with celebrity moderator Rita Wilson, which costs $65 per person.
