Adam Driver saving response to Lena Dunham allegations for my book'

Adam Driver avoided responding to allegations about his on-set behavior attributed to Lena Dunham in her memoir. At a Cannes press conference, he said he had no comment and planned to save everything for his book. Dunham’s memoir, which became a New York Times bestseller, recounts difficult experiences while working with Driver on Girls. She describes a late-night rehearsal where she forgot her lines and Driver allegedly became verbally aggressive, hurled a chair, and told her to wake up. She also recounts a sex-scene shoot where blocking allegedly broke down after Driver’s behavior. Driver has since become a highly sought-after actor with major award nominations and had not previously commented.

"I have no comment on any of that I'm saving it all for my book, he responded, provoking laughter in the room. In Famesick, which topped the New York Times bestseller list after its release in April, Dunham describes several difficult experiences while working with Driver on Girls, the HBO comedy-drama that ran from 2012 to 2017 and helped launch his career."

"Recalling a late-night rehearsal, Dunham wrote that Driver became verbally aggressive after she forgot her lines during a scene and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. 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 practised lines in my trailer, I found that mine were suddenly gone."

"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.' Adam Driver (far left) appeared in the HBO series Girls, created by Lena Dunham (centre, with her head in her hand). Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy"

"Dunham also described filming the characters' first sex scene, claiming that careful blocking went out the window when Driver hurled me this way and that. Stunned, I couldn't speak for a moment, she wrote, unsure of what had happened had I lost directorial authority, allowed the scene to go off the rails, not given proper instructions?"

Read at www.theguardian.com