Actress Lena Dunham is claiming that she wrote about her “Women” co-star Adam Driver in an “trustworthy manner.” In her tell-all memoir “Famesick,” Dunham alleges that the “Star Wars” actor threw a chair, punched a gap in his trailer, and screamed in her face when she forgot her strains. She additionally claimed that their relationship almost crossed a boundary earlier than he married his now-wife, Joanne Tucker, in 2013.
Lena Dunham Addresses Her Relationship With ‘Women’ Costar Adam Driver
Whereas selling her new memoir, Dunham mirrored on the problem of being the “Women” showrunner at such a younger age, as she was solely 23 when HBO referred to as to supply her a blind pilot deal for the present. Whereas the comedy sequence was a success for HBO, Driver was additionally navigating his newfound fame as Kylo Ren within the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy.
“For higher or worse, it was all of our first jobs. I believe Adam went on a really particular journey as a result of he had the journey of the present after which additionally the journey of changing into a significant film star on the identical time,” Dunham instructed PEOPLE journal whereas selling her memoir.
“So he was on these two tracks, and he’s a really, very critical work-focused personal individual. So I’ve numerous empathy for that,” she added.
Dunham Mentioned She Didn’t Need To Make Adam Driver ‘The Outlier’
Dunham insisted that she didn’t need to make Driver appear to be “the outlier” of the comedy sequence when she wrote about her experiences with him in her memoir. As an alternative, she stated she needed it to serve for instance of how tough it may be to navigate her “first experiences” as a boss, which she hopes others can relate to.
“And once more, the purpose was by no means to make Adam appear to be he was in any manner the outlier of the present, however simply to speak about how advanced and complicated these first experiences of attempting to be a boss had been,” she stated.
Lena Dunham Says It Was A ‘Problem’ To Be A Chief
Dunham insists that it wasn’t simply her experiences with Driver that made it tough to be a “boss” on set.
“I used to be additionally, at that time in my life, extraordinarily intimidated by males. And so there was an actual problem to me in attempting to be a frontrunner when it got here to males,” she defined. “And I realized on that job, and fortunately, I don’t really feel those self same sorts of fears anymore.”
Lena Dunham Says They Shared A ‘Wealthy Inventive Dynamic’
Adam Driver’s character, additionally named Adam, performed the on-again-off-again boyfriend to Dunham’s character, Hannah. Whereas reflecting on the expertise of filming “Women,” Dunham claimed that that they had “two totally different relationships” once they had been on-screen and in actual life.
“It was a extremely wealthy artistic dynamic through which we had been in a position to perceive one another fully once we had been on display screen, after which in some methods, under no circumstances once we had been off,” she stated. “And so it was nearly like we had two totally different relationships, one which type of performed out in our scenes collectively and one which performed out in life.”
She stated she wrote about Driver within the ebook solely to seize the connection in an “trustworthy manner” as she mirrored on her experiences.
“It was an try and seize that [relationship] in an trustworthy manner, and likewise actually speak about how a lot being round this very gifted, charismatic, advanced, and highly effective individual affected me in ways in which had been actually optimistic and in ways in which had been a bit tougher,” she says.
Lena Dunham Displays On The Conduct Of ‘Nice Male Geniuses’
In a separate interview with The Guardian to advertise her memoir, Dunham admitted, “I additionally care so much about having a set the place individuals are blissful, and be at liberty and heard and unafraid. Largely as a result of I don’t need folks to really feel a number of the ways in which I felt.”
“On the time, I didn’t have the talent to … it by no means entered my thoughts to say, ‘I’m your boss, you may’t communicate to me this fashion,’” Dunham stated of Driver’s alleged conduct. “And, at that time in my 20s, I nonetheless thought that’s what nice male geniuses do: eviscerate you. Which is bizarre, as a result of I used to be raised by a male genius who would by no means try this.”
On the time of this writing, Driver has but to publicly touch upon her accusations. In her memoir, she stated that the final time that they had contact was when “Women” wrapped in 2016.
