Actress Lena Dunham is claiming that she wrote about her “Women” co-star Adam Driver in an “trustworthy means.” 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 traces. She additionally claimed that their relationship practically 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 issue of being the “Women” showrunner at such a younger age, as she was solely 23 when HBO known as to supply her a blind pilot deal for the present. Whereas the comedy sequence was successful 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 experience as a result of he had the experience of the present after which additionally the experience of turning into a significant film star on the similar time,” Dunham instructed PEOPLE magazine whereas selling her memoir.
“So he was on these two tracks, and he’s a really, very critical work-focused personal particular person. So I’ve loads of empathy for that,” she added.
Dunham Stated 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 mentioned she wished 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 objective was by no means to make Adam appear to be he was in any means the outlier of the present, however simply to speak about how complicated and complicated these first experiences of attempting to be a boss had been,” she mentioned.
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 by chance, I don’t really feel those self same sorts of fears anymore.”
Lena Dunham Says They Shared A ‘Wealthy Artistic 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” after they had been on-screen and in actual life.
“It was a very wealthy artistic dynamic wherein we had been in a position to perceive one another fully once we had been on display screen, after which in some methods, by no means once we had been off,” she mentioned. “And so it was nearly like we had two totally different relationships, one which sort of performed out in our scenes collectively and one which performed out in life.”
She mentioned she wrote about Driver within the e book solely to seize the connection in an “trustworthy means” as she mirrored on her experiences.
“It was an try to seize that [relationship] in an trustworthy means, and likewise actually discuss how a lot being round this very proficient, charismatic, complicated, and highly effective particular person affected me in ways in which had been actually constructive 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 rather a lot about having a set the place persons are pleased, and be at liberty and heard and unafraid. Largely as a result of I don’t need individuals to really feel a few of the ways in which I felt.”
“On the time, I didn’t have the ability to … it by no means entered my thoughts to say, ‘I’m your boss, you’ll be able to’t communicate to me this manner,’” Dunham mentioned of Driver’s alleged habits. “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 do this.”
On the time of this writing, Driver has but to publicly touch upon her accusations. In her memoir, she mentioned that the final time that they had contact was when “Women” wrapped in 2016.
