{"id":648639,"date":"2026-05-17T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648639\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:46:08","slug":"adam-driver-responds-to-lena-dunhams-claim-he-was-verbally-aggressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648639\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Driver Responds to Lena Dunham’s Claim He Was “Verbally Aggressive”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAdam Driver<\/a> got a question at the Cannes<\/a> press conference for Paper Tiger<\/a> about the acerbic claims made about him by Lena Dunham in her recent memoir Famesick and, well, he shut it down.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have no comment on any of that. I\u2019m saving it all for my book,\u201d said the 2x Oscar nominee. (See brief clip below.)<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the book by the Girls creator and star, Dunham writes that Driver was \u201cverbally aggressive<\/a>\u201d and \u201churled a chair at the wall next to me.\u201d The two played lovers on the award-winning HBO series, Driver\u2019s character being quite the abusive onscreen boyfriend at times.<\/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 writes Dunham. \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.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile filming the couple\u2019s first sex scene in Season 1 of the 2012-2017 drama, Dunham, the show\u2019s creator, writer, star and director, says that \u201ccareful blocking went out the window\u201d when Driver \u201churled me this way and that.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cStunned, I couldn\u2019t speak for a moment,\u201d she writes, \u201cunsure 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<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Paper Tiger, Driver plays an ex-cop<\/a> turned get-rich-quick-scheming brother to Miles Teller\u2019s family-man engineer. Driver\u2019s character concocts a way for the duo to start an environmental business together as Russians, largely the mafia, are involved in recalibrating a canal in New York City. Chaos ensues.<\/p>\n

\n\tPaper Tiger is James Gray\u2019s sixth Cannes world premiere, received a ten-minute standing ovation<\/a> last night, 2x as long as the filmmaker\u2019s previous 2022 film that was here, Armageddon Time. <\/p>\n

\n\tNeon acquired U.S.<\/a> on Paper Tiger soon after it was announced for an in-competition play at Cannes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Driver got a question at the Cannes press conference for Paper Tiger about the acerbic claims made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[35657,18451,252484,32176,88,279316],"class_list":["post-648639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-adam-driver","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-2026","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-paper-tiger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648639","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=648639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}