Adam Driver Responds To Verbally Aggressive Allegations

Adam Driver has responded for the first time to Lena Dunham’s claims in her new memoir that he was verbally aggressive towards her when they were working on the hit show Girls.

“I have no comment on any of that,” Adam told the press on Sunday while appearing at the Cannes Film Festival.

He added: “I’m saving it all for my book.”

Adam was at the international film festival for the premiere of his new movie, Paper Tiger.

During the news conference to promote the crime drama, Adam was briefly asked about Lena’s portrayal of him in her book, specifically if he has changed his approach to acting since his time on Girls.

His short, sarcastic answer garnered laughs from his co-stars and the audience.

Last month, Lena released her newest memoir, Famesick.

In her book, she spoke candidly about her working relationship with Adam, alongside whom she starred in Girls.

She wrote that Adam had been “short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing”, adding that the two haven’t spoken since the show ended.

While filming one of their sex scenes early on in the series, Lena alleged that Adam had “hurled” her “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? Would I be removed from my command post immediately?” she recalled.

“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,” Lena added. “But I felt that something intimate, confusing and primal had played out in a scenario I was meant to control.”

Lena also wrote that when she forgot one of her lines, Adam threw a chair at a wall and screamed at her.

“I’d known them only minutes before,” she said. “But when I opened my mouth, all that came out was a stammer – until finally, Adam screamed, ‘FUCKING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. ‘WAKE THE FUCK UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE’.”

While promoting the memoir, Lena didn’t seem to have any bad feelings toward Adam, telling People she has “a lot of empathy” for the Oscar nominee.

“For better or worse, it was all of our first jobs,” she claimed. “I think Adam went on a very specific ride because he had the ride of the show and then also the ride of becoming a major movie star at the same time.

“So, he was on these two tracks, and he’s a very, very serious work-focused private person. So I have a lot of empathy for that. And again, the goal was never to make Adam seem like he was in any way the outlier of the show, but just to talk about how complex and confusing those first experiences of trying to be a boss were.”