Actor Adam Driver is finally speaking out about the accusations Lena Dunham made about him in her new memoir, “Famesick.” In the tell-all book, she alleges that he screamed in her face, threw a chair, and even once punched a hole in the wall of his trailer. The “Star Wars” actor was asked whether there was any truth to those allegations while promoting his new movie, “Paper Tiger,” at the Cannes Film Festival.
The “Marriage Story” actor was quick to shut down a question about the allegations that Lena Dunham made against him in her “Famesick” memoir while promoting his latest film. At the Cannes press conference, Driver was asked if there was any truth to what she wrote in the book.
“I have no comment on any of that,” he said, as per Deadline. “I’m saving it all for my book.” The comment, which can be heard in the video above, drew laughter from the crowd.
It’s a bit of a tongue-in-cheek response from the notoriously private actor who probably doesn’t actually plan on writing a book. Then again, the reaction to Dunham’s memoir showed that plenty of fans would be interested in hearing his side of the story.
Inside Lena Dunham’s ‘Famesick’ Allegations
Lena Dunham played the lead character Hannah in the HBO comedy “Girls,” which ran from 2012 to 2017. Adam Driver played her on-again, off-again boyfriend, also named Adam, although their relationship was often portrayed as toxic. In the book, Dunham claimed that Driver was “verbally aggressive” towards her and once “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,” Dunham wrote in her tell-all book. “Late one night, as we practiced 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-CKING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. ‘WAKE THE F-CK UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.’”
Lena Dunham Claims Driver ‘Hurled’ Her Around During An Intimate Scene
While filming an intimate scene for the show’s first season, Dunham, who was also the show’s creator, writer, and director, alleged that her “careful blocking went out the window.” She claims that the “House of Gucci” actor “hurled me this way and that.”
In the book, she claimed she was so “stunned” that she “couldn’t speak for a moment,” and went on to write that she was “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?” Dunham wondered following the moment.
Scarlett Johansson Weighs In On Working With Adam Driver
Lena Dunham isn’t the only one to have a fight scene with Driver. “Avengers” actress Scarlett Johansson “spent two entire days” screaming at the actor while filming Noah Baumbach’s 2019 drama “Marriage Story,” which tells the story of a couple fighting over custody of their son while going through a tumultuous divorce.
“We spent two entire days screaming at each other, brutally screaming and fighting for two full days,” she told As If magazine at the time, as reported by PEOPLE magazine.
“It was exhausting, but if I didn’t have as strong an actor as Adam to take all the stuff I was giving him, I would have been lost,” Johansson said. “For me, working with other actors is a really important part of what I do … it’s everything.”
The scene was so aggressive that the U.S. Department of Agriculture actually blasted audio of their argument scenes to scare away a pack of gray wolves that were reportedly “terrorizing” an Oregon farm’s livestock, as per The Wall Street Journal.
Scarlett Johansson Has Nothing But Praise For Driver
In 2025, the “Jurassic World Rebirth” actress told PEOPLE magazine that she had a “great” experience working with Driver. “I love Adam as a person, and he is an absolutely extraordinary actor,” she said at the time. “If I could make every movie with Adam Driver, I would.”
After filming “Marriage Story,” she reunited with Driver on the set of “Paper Tiger,” although she wasn’t at Cannes due to a scheduling conflict. Although she was married to Miles Teller’s character and had limited scenes with Driver, she had nothing but positive things to say about him.
“I would’ve loved to have had even more scenework with him. I love working with him,” Johansson told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the “Paper Tiger” premiere.
“Star Wars” actress Daisy Ridley also had positive things to say about working with the actor, despite Dunham’s accusations.