Adam Driver has finally responded to the explosive allegations Lena Dunham made about him in her memoir, and he did it with exactly one sardonic sentence.
Speaking at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival for his new film Paper tiger on Sunday, the 42-year-old was asked about the allegations Dunham made in the Fame sickher recently published tell-all.
His answer was short and sweet: “I have no comment on that, I’ll save it all for my book.”
It was a master class in saying nothing while saying quite a lot.
The response came just weeks after Dunham’s 416-page memoir landed with considerable force, containing a series of serious allegations about Driver’s behavior on the set of GirlsThe HBO series, where he played Hannah Horvath’s volatile on-off boyfriend Adam Sackler.
Dunham accused him of screaming at her in his trailer, throwing a chair against the wall next to her and punching a hole in his own trailer wall.
She also claimed that he ignored the agreed block during their first intimate scene and he physically handled her in a way that left her shaken.
“Touched, I couldn’t speak for a moment,” she wrote, describing the confusion and self-doubt that followed.
Dunham has been candid about why she didn’t confront him at the time.
speaks to The Guardian in April she said: “At that point in my 20s, I still thought that’s what great male geniuses do, take you out. Which is weird, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that.”
The memoir also ventured into more personal territory, with Dunham claiming she and Driver came close to having an affair a month before he got engaged to wife Joanne Tucker in 2012.
She wrote that she withdrew when he arrived at her home in New York, choosing not to cross a border she believed would make it impossible to return to work.
The driver, she claimed, later acknowledged the moment to her, saying, “When my girl was gone, I realized I’m no good on my own. I need someone to keep me in line.”
The press conference in Cannes where Driver made his comment was to Paper tigerJames Gray’s crime drama, in which he plays former police officer Gary Pearl.
