Adam Driver Responds to Lena Dunham Memoir Claims at Cannes

Adam Driver was asked at the Cannes press conference for Paper Tiger about the acerbic claims made about him by Lena Dunham in her latest memoir Famesick, and well, he shut it down.

“I have no comment on any of that. I’m saving it all for my book,” said the 2x Oscar nominee.

In the book by the Girls creator and star, Dunham writes that Driver was “verbally aggressive” and “hurled a chair at the wall next to me.”

While filming the couple’s first sex scene in Season 1 of the 2012-2017 drama, Dunham, the show’s creator, writer, star and director, says that “careful blocking went out the window” when Driver “hurled me this way and that.”

“Stunned, I couldn’t speak for a moment,” she writes, “unsure of what had happened — had I lost directorial authority, allowed the scene to go off the rails, not given proper instructions? Would I be removed from my command post immediately?”

Paper Tiger is James Gray’s sixth Cannes world premiere, received a ten-minute standing ovation last night, 2x as long as the filmmaker’s previous 2022 film that was here, Armageddon Time.

Neon acquired U.S. on Paper Tiger soon after it was announced for an in-competition play at Cannes.

The movie, starring Scarlett Johansson, Driver and Miles Teller, follows two brothers who pursue the American Dream but get entangled in a dangerous Russian mafia scheme that terrorizes their family. Bonds are tested and betrayal boils.