{"id":2441,"date":"2026-05-17T15:29:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/adam-driver-addresses-lena-dunhams-claims-about-alleged-violent-on-set-behavior\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T15:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:29:52","slug":"adam-driver-addresses-lena-dunhams-claims-about-alleged-violent-on-set-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/adam-driver-addresses-lena-dunhams-claims-about-alleged-violent-on-set-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Driver addresses Lena Dunham&#8217;s claims about alleged violent on-set behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/128032990.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Adam Driver side-stepped commenting on his behavior on the \u201cGirls\u201d set in Cannes.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the \u201cStar Wars: The Force Awakens\u201d actor, 42, was asked at a press conference for his upcoming movie, \u201cPaper Tiger,\u201d about Lena Dunham\u2019s claims that he <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/13\/celebrity-news\/lena-dunham-claims-girls-co-star-adam-driver-hurled-a-chair-punched-a-wall-in-explosive-on-set-outbursts\/\">allegedly exhibited violent outbursts while filming the actress\u2019s sitcom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no comment on any of that. I\u2019m saving it all for my book,\u201d Driver quipped, provoking some laughs from the room, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/festivals\/adam-driver-lena-dunham-memoir-question-cannes-1236751474\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per Variety.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Adam Driver was asked about his behavior on the set of \u201cGirls\u201d at a press conference in Cannes on Sunday (as seen above). <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cI have no comment on any of that. I\u2019m saving it all for my book,\u201d the actor (seen above at the press conference) quipped, per Variety. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In Dunham\u2019s memoir, \u201c<a data-aps-asc-tag=\"pagesix-20\" data-aps-asin=\"B0FKGJ26MK\" data-wrapped-template=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url\" href=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFamesick-Memoir-Lena-Dunham-ebook%2Fdp%2FB0FKGJ26MK%3Ftag%3Dpagesix-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpagesix.com%2F2026%2F05%2F17%2Fcelebrity-news%2Fadam-driver-addresses-lena-dunhams-claims-about-alleged-violent-on-set-behavior%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">Famesick<\/a>,\u201d she claimed that Driver \u2014 who played Adam Sacker, the actress\u2019s character Hannah Horvath\u2019s on-again, off-again boyfriend, on \u201cGirls\u201d \u2014 was volatile and occasionally scary.<\/p>\n<p>Dunham, 40, recalled once practicing a fight scene in her trailer and Driver becoming impatient with her until he screamed, \u201c\u2018F\u2013KING SAY SOMETHING,\u2019 and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. \u2018WAKE THE F\u2013K UP,\u2019 he told me. \u2018I\u2019M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Dunham stressed that she and Driver \u201cstill felt like partners\u201d during the first season of the HBO series in 2012 and said she would \u201cspend an inordinate amount of time wondering if Adam liked me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Lena Dunham (seen above with the actor in \u201cGirls\u201d) alleged in her memoir, \u201cFamesick,\u201d that Driver once threw a chair at her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>She also claimed the \u201cHouse of Gucci\u201d star 9seen above in \u201cGirls\u201d) could be \u201cshort-tempered and verbally aggressive.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Mark Schafer<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Driver and Dunham (both seen above on the TV show) played opposite each other in \u201cGirls.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Craig Blankenhorn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe could be short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing,\u201d she wrote, but \u201ccould also be protective, loving even.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Guardian, Dunham alleged that Driver screamed in her face and punched a hole in his trailer wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time, I didn\u2019t have the skill to \u2026 it never entered my mind to say, \u2018I am your boss, you can\u2019t speak to me this way,\u2019\u201d Dunham, who created \u201cGirls\u201d and was the showrunner, shared.<\/p>\n<p>In a later interview on the \u201cToday\u201d show, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/15\/celebrity-news\/lena-dunham-awkwardly-avoids-adam-driver-questions-after-book-revelations\/\">Dunham avoided discussing<\/a> her workplace experience with the \u201cHouse of Gucci\u201d actor.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Driver was in Cannes for the premiere of his new movie \u201cPaper Tiger\u201d (as seen above). <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>He and Miles Teller (both pictured above at the Cannes Film Festival) play brothers in the movie directed by James Gray. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think I wrote about a dynamic that a lot of young women can understand in the workplace,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really want people to read it in context and understand it in the totality. \u2026 It\u2019s as much about my experience of coming to some kind of understanding of my own power as a boss than it is about anything else,\u201d Dunham added.<\/p>\n<p>Driver was in Cannes promoting \u201cPaper Tiger,\u201d directed by James Gray and co-starring Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson. Teller and Driver play brothers, who unwittingly get involved with Russian mobsters.<\/p>\n<p>The movie premiered on Saturday night and received a seven-minute standing ovation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/17\/celebrity-news\/adam-driver-addresses-lena-dunhams-claims-about-alleged-violent-on-set-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Driver side-stepped commenting on his behavior on the \u201cGirls\u201d set in Cannes. 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