Nine years after HBO’s “Girls” came to an end, Lena Dunham is speaking candidly about her professional relationship with her former co-star and on-screen love interest Adam Driver.
On Tuesday, Dunham unveiled “Famesick: A Memoir,” in which she described Driver’s behavior on the set of “Girls” as “short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing,” and noted that the two haven’t spoken since their series came to an end in 2017 after six seasons.
The eight-time Emmy nominee singles out an incident that took place during the filming of an early sex scene involving her and Driver as indicative of her co-star’s mercurial temperament.
“He hurled me this way and that,” she writes, according to Variety. “Stunned, I couldn’t speak for a moment, 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?”
“It wasn’t that I felt violated — and I also wouldn’t know if I had, as there was little in my sexual life that I hadn’t allowed to happen, and for no pay,” she continued. “But I felt that something intimate, confusing and primal had played out in a scenario I was meant to control.”
