Adam Driver side-stepped commenting on his conduct on the “Ladies” set in Cannes.
On Sunday, the “Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens” actor, 42, was requested at a press convention for his upcoming film, “Paper Tiger,” about Lena Dunham’s claims that he allegedly exhibited violent outbursts whereas filming the actress’s sitcom.
“I’ve no touch upon any of that. I’m saving all of it for my e-book,” Driver quipped, upsetting some laughs from the room, per Selection.
In Dunham’s memoir, “Famesick,” she claimed that Driver — who performed Adam Sacker, the actress’s character Hannah Horvath’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, on “Ladies” — was risky and sometimes scary.
Dunham, 40, recalled as soon as working towards a battle scene in her trailer and Driver turning into impatient together with her till he screamed, “‘F–KING SAY SOMETHING,’ and hurled a chair on the wall subsequent to me. ‘WAKE THE F–Okay UP,’ he instructed me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.’”
Nonetheless, Dunham harassed that she and Driver “nonetheless felt like companions” through the first season of the HBO collection in 2012 and stated she would “spend an inordinate period of time questioning if Adam favored me.”
“He could possibly be short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and bodily imposing,” she wrote, however “is also protecting, loving even.”
In an interview with the Guardian, Dunham alleged that Driver screamed in her face and punched a gap in his trailer wall.
“On the time, I didn’t have the ability to … it by no means entered my thoughts to say, ‘I’m your boss, you possibly can’t communicate to me this fashion,’” Dunham, who created “Ladies” and was the showrunner, shared.
In a later interview on the “In the present day” present, Dunham averted discussing her office expertise with the “Home of Gucci” actor.
“I feel I wrote a few dynamic that loads of younger ladies can perceive within the office,” she defined.
“I really need individuals to learn it in context and perceive it within the totality. … It’s as a lot about my expertise of coming to some form of understanding of my very own energy as a boss than it’s about the rest,” Dunham added.
Driver was in Cannes selling “Paper Tiger,” directed by James Grey and co-starring Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson. Teller and Driver play brothers, who unwittingly become involved with Russian mobsters.
The film premiered on Saturday night time and obtained a seven-minute standing ovation.
