American actor and author Lena Dunham has made some scathing accusations towards her Girls co-star, Adam Driver, claiming that he “hurled a chair” towards a wall next to her and even “punched a hole in his trailer”.
Speaking to The Guardian, days before the release of her memoir Famesick, Dunham reflected on her time on the beloved HBO series, and opened up about Driver’s alleged on-set behaviour.
Per the publication, Dunham claimed in her book that the Marriage Story actor was “spectacularly rude to her” and that he even “hurled a chair at the wall next to her” and punched a hole into his trailer.
“At the time, I didn’t have the skill to… it never entered my mind to say, ‘I am your boss, you can’t speak to me this way.’ And, at that point in my 20s, I still thought that’s what great male geniuses do: eviscerate you. Which is weird, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that,” Dunham told The Guardian.
Dunham went on to spotlight the “amazing men in [her] life” after recalling Driver’s alleged on-set behaviour, including Judd Apatow, who she said “is a great hero of mine”.
“Tim Bevan at Working Title is a huge part of my life, and so is cinematographer Sam Levy. I just worked with Mark Ruffalo, the most thoughtful, sensitive, politically engaged, beautiful person,” she continued.
“There’s plenty of them walking around. But there were years when I thought: Can’t I just make things that only have women in them?”
Driver worked alongside Dunham for all six seasons of Girls, where he played Hannah’s on-and-off again boyfriend, Adam Sackler.
At the time of writing, Driver has not responded to the claims made in Dunham’s interview or book.
Dunham’s Famesick is out now and has been described as a “frank, deeply personal reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between”.
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