Adam Driver has confirmed that he will not be returning for the upcoming reboot of HBO’s Girls.
It was announced last month that the show’s creator Lena Dunham is reviving the beloved series for a five-episode, limited run revival will featuring Dunham alongside co-stars Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet and Andrew Rannells.
Driver was notably not included in the announcement.
Asked by CinemaBlend whether he will be involved in the new episodes, Driver responded: “No, but I wish them the best of luck.”
Driver’s participation seemed doubtful following the publication of Dunham’s bombshell memoir earlier this year, which revealed tensions between the pair that culminated in the Marriage Story actor throwing a chair at a wall.
Driver played Adam, an emotionally fraught actor and the on-off boyfriend of series lead Hannah, for all six seasons of Girls’ duration. Hannah was played by Dunham, who was also the creator and showrunner on set.
Writing in her memoir, Famesick, Dunham, 40, described Driver in this period as “something feral”, calling him “half-man, half-beast” as she alleged that the future Star Wars actor was difficult to work with and occasionally violent.
In one part of the book, Dunham claimed that Driver threw a chair at the wall next to her when they were running lines and she was unable to get her words out (something she puts down to her dissociating due to her then-undiagnosed endometriosis).
“When I opened my mouth, all that came out was a stammer – until finally, Adam screamed, ‘F***ING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. ‘WAKE THE F*** UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE,’” she wrote.
Dunham says that she “didn’t tell anyone” about the incident at the time, as her experience with the real-life man who had inspired the character of Adam had left her used to violence.
Elsewhere in the book, Dunham claims that Driver punched a hole in his trailer wall because he hated his haircut and screamed in her face on another occasion.
While intimacy coordinators were used far less frequently in Girls’ time, Dunham said that she wanted to cultivate a “safe” environment on set when it came to sex scenes.
However, the Too Much creator wrote that her “careful blocking went out of the window” when filming intimate scenes, because Driver would allegedly “hurl me this way and that”.
“Part of me was afraid that when I turned around, I would find I was suddenly in a full-penetration 1970s porno. But after a few mimed thrusts, I called cut,” she wrote.
According to Dunham, when Driver wrapped his final scene for Girls, at the end of season six in 2016, he told her: “I hope you know I’ll always love you.” She wrote, however, that she “never heard from him again” after that.
Shortly after the book’s publication, Driver was asked about Dunham’s claims during the Cannes press conference for his new film Paper Tiger.
“I have no comment on any of that. I’m saving it all for my book,” Driver said in a video shared by Deadline, sparking laughter from the audience.