{"id":582312,"date":"2026-04-13T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/582312\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:59:08","slug":"lena-dunham-talks-adam-driver-temper-on-girls-in-memoir-famesick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/582312\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham Talks Adam Driver Temper on ‘Girls’ in Memoir ‘Famesick’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLena Dunham<\/a>\u2018s memoir Famesick is out on Tuesday, and the writer-actress has been teasing some of the bombshell revelations in various interviews.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe creator of HBO\u2019s Girls<\/a> and Netflix\u2019s Too Much goes into detail about becoming a TV superstar aged just 25 in the memoir, as well as traversing intense criticism around her body, her ideas, battling extensive health issues and meeting her now-husband\u00a0Luis Felber after moving to London around five years ago.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a piece with The Guardian<\/a> released over the weekend, Dunham explains feeling as though she and her Girls co-stars \u2014 including Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet \u2014\u00a0were \u201clambs to the slaughter,\u201d upon the series\u2019 2012 release. Now 39, Dunham says she soon learned the pitfalls of reading what people have to say on social media. \u201cI am one of the many examples they have of what [can happen] and there\u2019s a sense of people learning how much vulnerability is useful and how much is not,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I did not have any of that. I didn\u2019t have any sense about even just simple things like posing, or\u00a0style, or how to show your body, or how to show your\u00a0face.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Guardian describes \u201ctwo central\u00a0love stories in the book.\u201d One is with Jack Antonoff<\/a>, the indie artist and famed music producer, whose recent collaborators include Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter, and who is now married to Margaret Qualley. The pair dated and lived together for five years until 2017. Dunham explores the decline of that relationship, such as his being late to the hospital after she had undergone a gruelling hysterectomy, following a battle with endometriosis.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe other relationship explored in Famesick is Dunham\u2019s tumultuous team-up with Jenni Konner<\/a>, her ex-producing partner who was assigned to Dunham by HBO as a mentor when she first started working on Girls. \u201cMy female relationships have always been very deep and very complicated, and very romantic,\u201d Dunham tells The Guardian.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong some of the more shocking extracts from Famesick is Dunham\u2019s recounting of working with the now-Oscar-nominated Adam Driver<\/a>, who Girls fans will know played Hannah Horvath\u2019s on-off love interest, Adam Sackler, for all six seasons of the show.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe is described in the interview as \u201cspectacularly rude to her,\u201d per Dunham\u2019s book, having once hurled a chair at the wall next to her, punched a hole in his trailer wall and screamed in her face. \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,’\u201d Dunham says. \u201cAnd, at that point in my 20s, I still thought that\u2019s what great male geniuses do: eviscerate you. Which is weird, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have lots of amazing men in my life,\u201d she continues. \u201cJudd [Apatow] is a great hero of mine; Tim Bevan at Working Title is a huge part of my life and so is cinematographer Sam Levy. I just worked with Mark Ruffalo, the most thoughtful, sensitive, politically engaged, beautiful person. There\u2019s plenty of them walking around. But there were years when I thought: Can\u2019t I just make things that only have women in them?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong some of the lighter moments is Dunham\u2019s being \u201cin a great place for well over half a decade\u201d now and her appreciation for how British women age. \u201cThey lean into their eccentricity as they get older. And it\u2019s not just artistic people \u2014 it\u2019s a woman who you see walking her dog on the road in the countryside in funny boots,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s very different in New York, where I feel like I grew up with women who had a lot more agita about ageing. It\u2019s really cool to get older with [the British model] as an influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter has reached out to a rep for Driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham\u2018s memoir Famesick is out on Tuesday, and the writer-actress has been teasing some of the bombshell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[35657,88,1248,38760,134458,1066],"class_list":{"0":"post-582312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-adam-driver","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-girls","11":"tag-jack-antonoff","12":"tag-jenni-konner","13":"tag-lena-dunham"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}