Girls creator Lena Dunham has claimed her former co-star was verbally aggressive towards her on the set of the TV show, also stating that the pair have never spoken since the show ended.
Dunham wrote and starred in the hit HBO TV show when she was just 23, with it becoming a huge and slightly unexpected success, going on to make six seasons.
Driver is now a near-household name for his performances in Star Wars and Netflix’s Marriage Story, for which he received one of his two Oscar nominations, but Girls was his breakthrough role.
Dunham spoke out about her co-star in a new memoir titled Famesick about her relationship with Driver, stating that it was closer to the toxic relationship depicted between the pair’s characters in the series than many realised.
“He hurled me this way and that” claimed Dunham about their first sex scene
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Amongst the many claims Dunham makes about her celebrity co-star is a suggestion that the actor improvised during their first sex scene and ‘hurled’ her.
She said that when filming the scene ‘careful blocking went out the window and he hurled me this way and that’. She went on to add: “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?
“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. But I felt that something intimate, confusing and primal had played out in a scenario I was meant to control.”
She also alleged that he had thrown a chair at a wall during rehearsals when she forgot her lines, saying he yelled: "F*cking say something... wake the f*ck up!"
In a separate section of the book, she claimed that one week Driver had come over every night when she suffered from anxiety, before he one night he called her to warn: “I’m warning you, if I come up, I’m not leaving this time.”
She stated the pair did not ‘cross whatever boundary we were threatening to cross’ but stated that she was ‘heartbroken’ to find out about his engagement to his wife Joanne Tucker.
Dunham accused him of being ‘verbally aggressive’ to her on set
The writer portrayed the Star Wars actor as a complicated man, stating that she spent large amounts of time trying to figure out if he liked her or not.
She said: “He could be short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing. He could also be protective, loving even… I reasoned that the intensity of his anger at me, anger that could make him spit and throw things, was proportionate to the intensity of our creative connection.”
She claimed that at one point in his dressing room she apologised to him for a ‘perceived slight she couldn’t remember committing’, leading him to get in her face and say: “Never forget that I know you. I really fucking know you… You don’t go to parties. You love animals. And you hate being whispered about.” She stated ‘he was right’.
Dunham claims Driver told her he would ‘always love her’ when filming wrapped on the series, adding: “Who knows — maybe I’d write him new parts. We would tell new stories. We would laugh at the way things had been, and smile at the way they were now, but I never heard from him again.”
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Michael Slavin