Adam Driver has broken his silence on the claims Lena Dunham made about his on-set behavior in her newest memoir Famesick.
Dunham, 40, alleged in her book that Driver, 42, was “verbally aggressive” and once threw a chair while filming her HBO series Girls, in which the Star Wars actor played her on-and-off love interest during all six seasons from 2012 to 2017.
When asked about the claims Sunday at the Cannes press conference for his new film Paper Tiger, Driver kept his response brief.
“I have no comment on any of that. I’m saving it all for my book,” Driver said in a video shared by Deadline, sparking laughter from the audience.
Neither Driver nor Dunham returned The Independent’s request for comment on his statement.
Dunham wrote in Famesick, which came out last month, that Driver threw a chair at the wall next to her when she disassociated once while running lines with him.
“I remember doing a fight scene with Adam and how scary it was to meet someone so totally present with such absence,” she wrote. “Late one night, as we practiced lines in my trailer, I found that mine were suddenly gone. I knew I’d written them. I’d known them only minutes before. But when I opened my mouth, all that came out was a stammer — until finally, Adam screamed, ‘F***ING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. ‘WAKE THE F*** UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.’”
She said that she “didn’t tell anyone” about the incident at the time because a previous romantic relationship had left her accustomed to violence.
Elsewhere in the tell-all book, Dunham described Driver as “something feral,” calling him “half-man, half-beast.” She claimed that he punched a hole in his trailer wall once because he hated his haircut, and screamed in her face on another occasion.
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Dunham said that despite his volatile behavior, she still felt a partnership with Driver as they worked together on the show.
“I reasoned that the intensity of his anger at me, anger that could make him spit and throw things, was proportionate to the intensity of our creative connection,” she wrote.
She also implied that she and Driver came close to sleeping together one weekend while his girlfriend — who is now his wife, Joanne Tucker — was out of town. However, Dunham said she decided against it because she did not want to make their working relationship more complicated.
According to Dunham, when Driver wrapped his final scene for Girls in 2016, he told her: “I hope you know I’ll always love you.” However, she wrote, that she “never heard from him again” after that.