Adam Driver Was a Nightmare on 'Girls' Set, Lena Dunham Claims

Before he was a Hollywood leading man in mega-movies like Star Warsand Ferrari, Adam Driver played Adam on the HBO series Girls. His character was the on-and-off love interest to Lena Dunham's character Hannah — the Ross to her Rachel, the Jim to her Pam. Apparently, their relationship offscreen was just as hot and cold.

In her new memoir Famesick (via Variety), Dunham shared several stories of Driver being abusive towards her on set, both physically and verbally. In the first instance, the Sharp Stick director wrote that Driver disregarded the blocking done in rehearsal for their first sex scene together and instead "he hurled me this way and that.” She continued, “Stunned, I couldn’t speak for a moment, unsure of what had happened — 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?”

In another instance, Dunham claimed Driver once hurled a chair at her while they were running lines together in her trailer. After Dunham forgot her lines, "Adam screamed, ‘F***ING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. ‘WAKE THE F*** UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.'”

Of Driver's demeanor, Dunham wrote, “I remember doing a fight scene with Adam and how scary it was to meet someone so totally present with such absence." This came to fruition again in another off-camera altercation.

“One day in his dressing room, as I apologized for a perceived slight I couldn’t remember committing, he got close to my face and hissed, ‘Never forget that I know you. I really f***ing know you,'" she wrote. "‘What do you know?’ I yelped. ‘You don’t go to parties. You love animals. And you hate being whispered about.’ And he was right.”

Dunham also wrote that she and Driver have not spoken since Girls ended back in 2017.

Men's Journal reached out to Driver's rep for comment.