{"id":583860,"date":"2026-04-14T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583860\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:28:09","slug":"adam-driver-verbally-aggressive-on-girls-threw-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583860\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Driver ‘Verbally Aggressive’ on ‘Girls,’ Threw Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn her new memoir \u201cFamesick,\u201d <\/a>Lena Dunham<\/a> reflects on her hit show \u201cGirls<\/a>\u201d and the complex relationship she had with co-star Adam Driver<\/a> both on and off set.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGirls,\u201d which ran on HBO from 2012 to 2017, starred Dunham as the self-centered yet oddly charming writer Hannah Horvath and Driver as her toxic on-again, off-again boyfriend, also named Adam. According to Dunham\u2019s new memoir, their real-life relationship wasn\u2019t too different.<\/p>\n

\n\tThings got off to a rocky start during the filming of the first season, with Dunham claiming her \u201ccareful blocking went out the window and he hurled me this way and that\u201d during their first sex scene. \u201cStunned, I couldn\u2019t speak for a moment, unsure of what had happened \u2014 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?\u201d she writes. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that I felt violated \u2014 and I also wouldn\u2019t know if I had, as there was little in my sexual life that I hadn\u2019t allowed to happen, and for no pay. But I felt that something intimate, confusing and primal had played out in a scenario I was meant to control.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe also writes that Driver walked out of the room after she showed him the pilot episode and \u201cdidn\u2019t answer any of my calls for the next three weeks.\u201d When he finally called, Dunham was sure he was going to quit the show, but instead he admitted that he rushed out because he hates watching himself. <\/p>\n

\n\tAfter \u201cGirls\u201d was picked up, Dunham\u2019s anxiety increased as she faced the pressures of running a TV show at just 24 years old. When it was time to shoot the final episode, she reveals that she disassociated to deal with the stress. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt work, I found it was hard to act or direct when I wasn\u2019t, in fact, a person. I wondered if everyone on set could tell that an alien had replaced me,\u201d Dunham writes. \u201cI wondered if my scene partners could feel how barely human I was.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe then recalls one instance with Driver where he grew frustrated with her for forgetting her lines during rehearsal and alleges he \u201churled a chair at the wall next to me.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI remember doing a fight scene with Adam and how scary it was to meet someone so totally present with such absence,\u201d she writes. \u201cLate one night, as we practiced lines in my trailer, I found that mine were suddenly gone. I knew I\u2019d written them. I\u2019d known them only minutes before. But when I opened my mouth, all that came out was a stammer \u2014 until finally, Adam screamed, \u2018FUCKING SAY SOMETHING\u2019 and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. \u2018WAKE THE FUCK UP,\u2019 he told me. \u2018I\u2019M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA rep for Driver did not immediately respond to Variety\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the chair incident, Dunham says that she \u201cdidn\u2019t tell anyone\u201d but \u201cI said my lines correctly after that.\u201d However, during the first season she and Driver still \u201cfelt like partners\u201d and continued to rehearse together frequently, though they \u201cfought often.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI reasoned that the intensity of his anger at me, anger that could make him spit and throw things, was proportionate to the intensity of our creative connection,\u201d Dunham writes in \u201cFamesick.\u201d \u201cOne day in his dressing room, as I apologized for a perceived slight I couldn\u2019t remember committing, he got close to my face and hissed, \u2018Never forget that I know you. I really fucking know you.\u2019 \u2018What do you know?\u2019 I yelped. \u2018You don\u2019t go to parties. You love animals. And you hate being whispered about.\u2019 And he was right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs they continued to spend time together on and off set, Dunham admits she \u201cspent an inordinate amount of time wondering if Adam liked me.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe could be short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing. He could also be protective, loving even,\u201d Dunham writes. Later in the book, she even claims that he once \u201cpunched a hole in his trailer wall\u201d because he \u201chated his new haircut.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBut he was also there for her. During a particularly rough anxiety week for Dunham, she details how Driver came over to her apartment every night to keep her company. One night, he called her to say, \u201cI\u2019m warning you, if I come up, I\u2019m not leaving this time.\u201d But Dunham didn\u2019t let him in.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI crouched at the window, watching him park his bike, pull out his phone, and dial. But I didn\u2019t answer. It felt as simple as ignoring your doorbell, as pretending to be asleep, as impossible as stopping your blood from flowing,\u201d she writes. \u201cBut some part of me knew \u2014 some wise part of me, some bold part of me \u2014that if we crossed whatever boundary we were threatening to cross, the return to work would be tinged with humiliation, that I\u2019d be minimizing any authority I still had, and that, however it went, my heart \u2014 bruised but improbably not yet broken \u2014 would crack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe says the two \u201cnever spoke about it again,\u201d but when Driver told her he was engaged, she felt \u201cheartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was absurd to be heartbroken, to have thought I meant anything, that I occupied any role beyond distraction,\u201d she writes. \u201cI was his scene partner, sure \u2014 and so when we were in a scene, his attention was piercing, his presence all-consuming. But in life? It would never be me who kept him in line. I didn\u2019t have the chops. Even at work, I couldn\u2019t do it, in the one place I was meant to make the rules.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tDunham also details filming their last scene together in the final season \u2014 the one where their characters break up for good and Adam famously says \u201cgood soup.\u201d Although she writes that the two of them \u201chad barely spoken in three years,\u201d they \u201ckept crying\u201d in between takes. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt felt, for just a moment, like he was saying sorry,\u201d Dunham says. \u201cMaybe I was, too \u2014 for never knowing how to manage him, what he needed, how to avoid making his face contort with frustration and rage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen filming wrapped, Dunham says Driver told her \u201cI hope you know I\u2019ll always love you\u201d before saying goodbye.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWho knows \u2014 maybe I\u2019d write him new parts. We would tell new stories. We would laugh at the way things had been, and smile at the way they were now,\u201d Dunham writes. \u201cBut I never heard from him again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFamesick\u201d is available now at booksellers everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In her new memoir \u201cFamesick,\u201d Lena Dunham reflects on her hit show \u201cGirls\u201d and the complex relationship she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[35657,236,88,1248,1066],"class_list":{"0":"post-583860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-adam-driver","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-girls","12":"tag-lena-dunham"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583860","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=583860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}