Adam Driver has addressed former 'Girls' costar Lena Dunham’s memoir, 'Famesick', for the first time
“I have no comment on any of that,” Driver, 42, said during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, May 17. “I’m saving it all for my book.
”In the book, Dunham wrote that she and Driver “fought often,” but there was an “intensity” to their relationship. Dunham recalled one instance in which sheAllison Williams Responds to 'Girls' Costar Lena Dunham's Memoir Allison Williams has reacted to her former Girls costar Lena Dunham‘s latest tell-all memoir.
“I need to read more before I say anything about it,” Williams, 38, said in an interview with Variety on Tuesday, April 14. Williams explained she was at the portion of the book where Dunham, 39, wrote about the table read “On Friday, he called me as he was leaving the theater.
‘You still home alone, Dunham? ’ I was.
‘OK. I’m riding down to you. But I’m warning you, if I come up, I’m not leaving this time,’” Dunham recalled, noting that she “didn’t answer” when he got there.
“Some part of me knew — some wise part of me, some bold part of me — that if we crossed whatever boundary we were threatening to cross, the return to work would be tinged with humiliation,” she explained. “That I’d be minimizing any authority I still had, and that, however it went, my heart-bruised but improbably not yet broken-would crack. ” Dunham alleged that she and Driver “never” discussed that night, and he got engaged one month later.
(Driver tied the knot with“It was absurd to be heartbroken, to have thought I meant anything, that I occupied any role beyond distraction,” Dunham wrote.
“I was his scene partner, sure — and so when we were in a scene, his attention was piercing, his presence all-consuming. But in life? It would never be me who kept him in line. I didn’t have the chops.
Even at work, I couldn’t do it, in the one place I was meant to make the rules. ”In the years since Girls wrapped, show co-creator and star Lena Dunham kept in touch with the cast to varying degrees.
“I, in the book, really share that there were a lot of magical moments,” Dunham said on the Today show in April 2026, referring to her Famesick memoir. “Our entire cast has a sort “You write in the book about so much, but partly about a complicated relationship you had with your costar Adam Driver,”. “You were his boss. You were the director of this television series.
Moments where there was violence or anger, moments where there could have been romantic feelings. How does it sit with you now? ” Dunham shared that she reflected on experiences that would be “useful, potentially, to the reader” for her book.
“I think I wrote about a dynamic that a lot of young women can understand in the workplace,” Dunham explained. “I spent eight and a half years writing this book, so I was super intentional with every word that I put on the page and then you come on live TV — with cool glamorous girls like you — and are asked to rehash it in a way.
”She continued, “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.
”asked a follow-up question about where Dunham stands with her former costar now, the actress gave a response about the“I, in the book, really share that there were a lot of magical moments and our entire cast has a sort of bond that I don’t think can ever be broken,” she said.
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