{"id":453649,"date":"2026-05-17T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453649\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:21:15","slug":"adam-driver-no-comment-on-alleged-lena-dunham-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453649\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Driver ‘no comment’ on alleged Lena Dunham clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

American actor Adam Driver batted away allegations about aggressive behaviour on the set of the television series Girls on Sunday, saying: “I have no comment on any of that. I’m saving it all for my book.”<\/p>\n

Lena Dunham, who wrote, directed, and acted in the series, accused the Star Wars and Marriage Story actor of allegedly being rough with her during their first sex scene.<\/p>\n

He “hurled me this way and that”, she alleged in her new memoir, Famesick.<\/p>\n

“It wasn’t that I felt violated,” Dunham wrote, but that she felt she had “lost directorial authority”.<\/p>\n

\"Lena
\nLena Dunham has just published Famesick: A Memoir<\/p>\n

Another time, she alleged, Driver “hurled a chair at the wall next to me” when he grew angry at her for forgetting her lines during a rehearsal and swore repeatedly at her.<\/p>\n

The hit show Girls, which ran for six seasons until 2017, was about a self-obsessed writer and her boyfriend, named Adam and played by Driver, and their on-off toxic relationship.<\/p>\n

It often seemed to mirror Dunham’s own life.<\/p>\n

Driver, who is married to actress Joanne Tucker, shut down the issue when he was questioned about it at the Cannes Film Festival, where he is starring in writer-director James Gray’s new crime thriller Paper Tiger. <\/p>\n

\"James
\nWriter-director James Gray told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival that his film Paper Tiger is an indictment of the often “transactional” nature of the United States<\/p>\n

The gripping drama about an ordinary family that falls in thrall to the Russian mafia in New York is in the running for the Palme d’Or, the festival’s top prize.<\/p>\n

Gray, the American director of The Yards and Little Odessa, said the “crisis of masculinity” – a recurring theme at the festival – was nothing new.<\/p>\n

“Sophocles was talking about [it] 2,500 years ago,” he said. <\/p>\n

“What is recent is [the idea of] the strong man without flaws. That’s the last 100 years. That’s the thing we have to get away from and bring back the complexity of what it means to be a human being. That’s what I’ve tried to do,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n

Gray also said his film was an indictment of the often “transactional” nature of the United States.<\/p>\n

“Like the current American president, who is a symptom of what I’m talking about. Totally transactional. You know, how can I make the most money?” he said.<\/p>\n

“This ethos becomes everything, and what does that do to our souls? If you tell young people it doesn’t matter whether you’re a good person or not… it leaves them adrift.” <\/p>\n

Which is why, Gray said, he set the film in the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n

“It was the beginning of the moment in which the market became God.”<\/p>\n

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