Adam Driver finally responded to Lena Dunham’s explosive accusations about him in her memoir, and he did it with exactly one sardonic line.
Speaking at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival about his new film paper tiger On Sunday, the 42-year-old was asked about claims Dunham made in Famoushis story all published recently.
His response was short and dry: “I have no comments on it, I’m saving it all for my book.”
It was a master class in how to say nothing and say a lot.
The response came weeks after Dunham’s 416-page memoir packed considerable punch, containing a series of serious allegations about Driver’s behavior on the set of Girlsthe HBO series in which he played Hannah Horvath’s volatile on-again, off-again boyfriend, Adam Sackler.
Dunham accused him of yelling at her in her trailer, throwing a chair against the wall next to her and punching a hole in the wall of her own trailer.
She also claimed that he ignored the agreed-upon blocking during their first intimate scene, physically abusing her in a way that left her shocked.
“Dazed, I couldn’t speak for a moment,” she wrote, describing the confusion and doubts that followed.
Dunham has been candid about why she didn’t confront him at the time.
talking to the guardian in April, she said: “At the time, when I was 20, I still thought that’s what great male geniuses do, gut you. Which is strange, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that.”
The memoir also ventured into more personal territory, with Dunham claiming that she and Driver almost had an affair a month before he became engaged to his wife Joanne Tucker in 2012.
She wrote that she backed out when he arrived at her home in New York, choosing not to cross a line that she felt would make it impossible to return to work.
The driver, he alleged, then acknowledged the moment and told him: “When my daughter was away, I realized that I am not worth it alone. I need someone to keep me in line.”
The Cannes press conference where Driver made his comment was for paper tigerJames Gray’s crime drama in which he plays former police officer Gary Pearl.
