The “Girls” creator and actress claimed the “House of Gucci” actor had violent outbursts on the set of her sitcom.
On Sunday, the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” actor, 42, was asked at a press conference for his upcoming movie, “Paper Tiger,” about Lena Dunham ’s claims that he “I have no comment on any of that.
I’m saving it all for my book,” Driver quipped, provoking some laughs from the room,Adam Driver was asked about his behavior on the set of “Girls” at a press conference in Cannes on Sunday .
“I have no comment on any of that. I’m saving it all for my book,” the actor quipped, per Variety. ,” she claimed that Driver — who played Adam Sacker, the actress’s character Hannah Horvath’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, on “Girls” — was volatile and occasionally scary.
Dunham, 40, recalled once practicing a fight scene in her trailer and Driver becoming impatient with her until he screamed, “‘F–KING SAY SOMETHING,’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me.
‘WAKE THE F–K UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE. '” Nevertheless, Dunham stressed that she and Driver “still felt like partners” during the first season of the HBO series in 2012 and said she would “spend an inordinate amount of time wondering if Adam liked me. ”Lena Dunham alleged in her memoir, “Famesick,” that Driver once threw a chair at her.
She also claimed the “House of Gucci” star 9seen above in “Girls”) could be “short-tempered and verbally aggressive. ”“He could be short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing,” she wrote, but “could also be protective, loving even. ” In an interview with the Guardian, Dunham alleged that Driver screamed in her face and punched a hole in his trailer wall.
“At the time, I didn’t have the skill to … it never entered my mind to say, ‘I am your boss, you can’t speak to me this way,’” Dunham, who created “Girls” and was the showrunner, shared. He and Miles Teller play brothers in the movie directed by James Gray.
“I think I wrote about a dynamic that a lot of young women can understand in the workplace,” she explained. “I really want people to read it in context and understand it in the totality. … It’s as much about my experience of coming to some kind of understanding of my own power as a boss than it is about anything else,” Dunham added.
Driver was in Cannes promoting “Paper Tiger,” directed by James Gray and co-starring Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson. Teller and Driver play brothers, who unwittingly get involved with Russian mobsters. Adam Driver was asked about his behavior on the set of"Girls" at a press conference in Cannes on Sunday .
“I have no comment on any of that. I’m saving it all for my book,” the actor quipped, per Variety. Lena Dunham alleged in her memoir,"Famesick," that Driver once threw a chair at her. He and Miles Teller play brothers in the movie directed by James Gray.
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