Actor Adam Driver sarcastically promised to write his own tell-all memoir about the experience of working with Lena Dunham, after the Girls star and writer accused him of having been verbally and physically abusive while on the set a decade ago.
Driver, 42, was asked about his portrayal in Dunham’s memoir, Famesick, which was released last month. He said: ‘I have no comment on any of that.’
He added, appearing angry: ‘I am saving it all for my book.’ He then appeared to mutter to co-star Miles Teller: ‘I have no idea what she’s talking about.’
Girls, which ran on HBO from 2012 to 2017, starred Dunham as the writer Hannah Horvath and Driver as her toxic on-again, off-again boyfriend, named Adam.
According to Dunham’s new memoir, their real-life relationship wasn’t too different.
She said in Famesick that the filming of their first sex scene had gone wrong. ‘Careful blocking went out the window, and he hurled me this way and that’.
She went on: ‘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? 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.’
Adam Driver, 42, was asked about his portrayal in Dunham’s memoir, Famesick, which was released last month. He said: ‘I have no comment on any of that’
Lena Dunham attending the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit Gala 2026 in New York
She said that Driver walked out of the room after she showed him the pilot episode and didn’t answer any of her calls for the next three weeks.
At one point during filming, her costar was frustrated when she forgot her lines and ‘hurled’ a chair against the wall. She said: ‘I remember doing a fight scene with Adam and how scary it was to meet someone so totally present with such absence.
‘Late one night, as we practised 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 added: ‘He could be short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing. He could also be protective, loving even.’
In Cannes on Sunday, Driver was promoting his new film Paper Tiger, in which he stars as a New Jersey brother who gets in over his head with the Russian mafia. Miles Teller plays his brother.
He spoke about how easy it had been to strike up a brotherly rapport with Teller, saying: ‘I just liked him immediately. It was very easy to fall in love with Miles.’
The Top Gun star shot back: ‘You aren’t so bad yourself.’
The director of the film, James Grey, said that he had set it in the 1980s as that was the point when, with the Soviet Union disintegrating, capitalism had, in his opinion, started its unfettered dominance of the world.
He added that he believes US President Donald Trump is a ‘symptom’ of the malaise which comes from the idea: ‘how can I make the most money out of this’.
‘If you tell people that it doesn’t matter if they are a good person, then it leaves them adrift.’