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 Dunham’s claims Evil of fameits recently released tell-all.
His response was brief and dry: “I have no comment to make on that, I’m keeping all that for my book.”
It was a masterclass in saying nothing while saying a lot.
The response came weeks after Dunham’s 416-page memoir was released with considerable force, containing a series of serious allegations about Driver’s behavior on the set of Girlsthe HBO series in which he plays Adam Sackler, Hannah Horvath’s unstable boyfriend.
Dunham accused him of yelling at her in her trailer, throwing a chair at the wall next to her and punching a hole in the wall of his own trailer.
She also claimed he ignored the agreed-upon blocking during their first intimate scene, physically manhandling her in a way that left her shaken.
“Stunned, I couldn’t speak for a while,” she wrote, describing the confusion and doubt that followed.
Dunham was candid about why she didn’t confront him at the time.
Talk to The Guardian in April, she said: “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.”
The memoir also ventures into more personal territory, with Dunham claiming that she and Driver were on the verge of an affair a month before he became engaged to his wife Joanne Tucker in 2012.
She wrote that she withdrew when he arrived at her home in New York, choosing not to cross a line that she said would make returning to work impossible.
The driver, she claimed, later acknowledged the moment to her, saying: “When my girlfriend was away, I realized I’m not good alone. I need someone to keep me in line.”
The Cannes press conference where Driver made his comment was for Paper TigerJames Gray’s police drama in which he plays former police officer Gary Pearl.
