Adam Driver Not Returning for Girls Reboot, Wishes Cast “Best of Luck”

The This is 40 actress said the comedy’s iconic characters—Marnie Michaels (Williams), Jessa Johansson (Kirke) and Shoshanna Shapiro (Mamet) as well as  Andrew Rannells’ Elijah Krantz “started talking to me in the shower” around her 40th birthday in May. 

“And, as you may remember, once this fivesome starts talking it’s pretty hard to get them to stop,” Dunham continued. “It’s rare that you get the chance to return to something that changed your life with the gift of hindsight and a whole new level of gratitude and understanding.”

Six months before the show was greenlit, Dunham shared insight into her and Driver’s rocky behind-the-scenes relationship, detailing the Marriage Story star’s alleged “feral” outbursts on set in her memoir Famesick.

“Adam screamed, ‘F–KING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me,’” Dunham alleged, noting she was suffering with dissociation as part of her undiagnosed endometriosis at the time. “‘WAKE THE F–K UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.’” 

She also alleged that the “careful blocking” laid out for them during sex scenes “went out the window” when the cameras began to roll, adding that Driver, in character, would “hurl me this way and that” during intimate scenes.

“Part of me was afraid that when I turned around, I would find I was suddenly in a full-penetration 1970s porno,” she admitted. “But after a few mimed thrusts, I called cut.”

And while Dunham recalled Driver saying he’d “always love” her when the series wrapped in 2017, she claims she “never heard from him again.”

In response to her claims, Driver said during the Cannes press conference for his film Paper Tiger in May, per Variety, “I have no comment on any of that. I’m saving it all for my book.”

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