Adam Driver Said “I Don’t Know Her” to the Drama Surrounding Lena Dunham’s Memoir

Whether he’s incognito as Matt the Radar Technician or spiritedly telling someone to “go back to the club”, Adam Driver has gone viral for a lot of things. And now, he is addressing the anecdotes revealed about him in Famesick, the recent memoir from his Girls co-star Lena Dunham.

During a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Paper Tiger, Driver was asked about the details revealed in Dunham’s book. His response was, simply: “I have no comment on any of that. I’m saving it all for my book,” which reportedly got a lot of laughter within the room.

It is worth acknowledging how… odd it is to ask about these details during a Cannes press conference, given how little they have to do with the film itself. The film festival is certainly no stranger to offscreen messiness (lest we forget the Don’t Worry Darling “Spitgate” that involved stars Harry Styles and Chris Pine), but the details from Famesick feel unrelated from what Driver is actually at Cannes for.

Some of the most headling-grabbing details around Famesick surrounded Dunham’s relationship with Driver, particularly as the two of them co-starred on her HBO series Girls. She revealed that she “spent an inordinate amount of time wondering if Adam liked me. He could be short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing. He could also be protective, loving even.”

She also recounted an incident when Dunham and Driver’s relationship almost veered into romantic territory, with boundaries being crossed right before Driver got engaged to Joanne Tucker, who he has been married to since 2013. Over the course of a week, Driver came over to Dunham’s apartment “almost every night”, and promised one night that “if I come up, I’m not leaving this time.” Dunham ultimately did not answer the door once he arrived.

“It felt as simple as ignoring your doorbell, as pretending to be asleep, as impossible as stopping your blood from flowing,” Dunham writes. “But 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, 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.”

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Elsewhere in the book, Dunham alleged that, while filming a sex scene between their two characters, her “careful blocking went out the window and [Driver] hurled me this way and that.”

“Stunned, I couldn’t speak for a moment, unsure of what had happened — had I lost directorial authority, allowed the scene to go off the rails, not given proper instructions?” Dunham writes. “Would I be removed from my command post immediately? It wasn’t that I felt violated — and I also wouldn’t know if I had, as there was little in my sexual life that I hadn’t allowed to happen, and for no pay. But I felt that something intimate, confusing and primal had played out in a scenario I was meant to control.”

She also alleges that, after she forgot her lines during a rehearsal, Driver “hurled a chair at the wall next to” her.

“I remember doing a fight scene with Adam and how scary it was to meet someone so totally present with such absence,” Dunham writes. “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****** 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.’”

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