‘Angry, verbally aggressive’: Lena Dunham describes Adam Driver’s behavior on the set of Girls

Actress Lena Dunham recounts in her memoir titled Famesickher complex relationship with actor Adam Driver during the filming of the series Girls, broadcast on HBO from 2012 to 2017. According to the actress, their collaboration sometimes took a tense, even aggressive turn.

The series starred Lena Dunham as Hannah, a young writer, and Adam Driver as Adam Sackler, her boyfriend. The actress recounts several moments when the actor, known in particular for Marriage Story (2019)would have gotten angry with her. She recalls a scene, during rehearsals, where, annoyed that she forgot her lines, he exploded with rage: “I only knew them a few minutes before. But when I opened my mouth, all that came out was a stutter – until Adam screamed, “Fuck, say something!” and throws a chair against the wall next to me. “Wake up, dammit!” he shouted at me.” “. After chair incident, actress says she “didn’t tell anyone”.

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“I didn’t have the maturity to tell him”

The actor could be “angry and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing”but also “protective, even affectionate”. She confesses to having doubted his view of her for a long time: “I spent a lot of time wondering if Adam liked me.”

In the columns of GuardianDunham looks back on his lack of perspective at the time: “I didn’t have the maturity to tell him: ‘I’m your superior, you can’t talk to me like that.’ And, in my twenties, I still thought that was the characteristic of great male geniuses: to destroy you. Which is strange, because I was raised by a male genius who would never have done that.”