Adam Driver has broken his silence on allegations made by Lena Dunham in her memoir Famesick, telling reporters at the Cannes Film Festival that he is saving his response for a book. The actor, who starred in Dunham's HBO series Girls, briefly addressed the claims during a press conference for his new film Paper Tiger on Sunday.
When asked by the Guardian about Dunham's account of his on-set behaviour, Driver replied: 'I have no comment on any of that – I'm saving it all for my book,' prompting laughter from the room. The actor has otherwise avoided public comment since the memoir's release in April.
In Famesick, Dunham describes several difficult experiences with Driver, including an incident during a late-night rehearsal when she forgot her lines. According to Dunham, Driver screamed 'FUCKING SAY SOMETHING' and 'hurled a chair at the wall next to me'. She also wrote that during the filming of their characters' first sex scene, Driver 'hurled me this way and that', leaving her stunned.
Driver, now a two-time Oscar nominee for BlacKkKlansman and Marriage Story, has not previously responded to the claims. At the Cannes press conference, attention soon returned to Paper Tiger, a crime drama set in 1980s New York, directed by James Gray and also starring Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson.
Gray used the event to criticise modern American capitalism, saying the unchecked dominance of the market has been 'devastating'. He added: 'When you cannot monetise integrity... you get someone like the current American president, who is a symptom of what I'm talking about.'
