- Lena Dunham alleged that her Girls co-star, Adam Driver, was violent on set in her new memoir, Famesick.
- She noted, “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.’”
- Now, Adam has responded to the allegations during a Cannes press conference on Sunday, May 17.
Adam Driver has caught wind of Lena Dunham’s allegations from her memoir, Famesick, and, yes, he finally addressed them.
During a press conference for his upcoming movie, Paper Tiger, at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, May 17, a reporter straight-up asked Adam if he had seen the allegations and had any comments. Per footage published by Variety, the Oscar nominee jokingly said, “I have no comment on any of that; I’m saving it all for my book.”
A few fans weren’t exactly thrilled by his response, as they claim his breakout role as Adam Sackler on Girls kick-started his successful acting career.
“He could also just have said I’m where I am because of her, she discovered me, she’s an amazing writer and always has been and that’s it,” one fan wrote, while another chimed in, “He should be thanking Lena Dunham every single day of his life.”
Others also commented on how Lena described the situation in her memoir, writing, “She's just honest. Gives him tons of praise and criticism where it’s valid. She presents him like a complex human and also does so for herself.”
Adam’s response comes after Lena alleged that he had “once hurled a chair at the wall next to her,” “punched a hole in his trailer wall,” and “screamed in her face” when they worked together on HBO’s Girls from 2012 to 2017.
During an interview with The Guardian last month, Lena opened up about that era of her career, admitting that even though she was the creator and star of the HBO hit, she was unable to confront his actions.
“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,’” she told the outlet.
She continued, “And, at that point in my 20s, I still thought that’s what great male geniuses do: eviscerate you. Which is weird, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that.”
