Adam Driver declined to comment on his actions in “Girls,” which was set in Cannes.
On Sunday, the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” actor, 42, was asked at a press conference for his new movie “Paper Tigers” about Lena Dunham’s claims that he had a violent outburst while filming the actress’ sitcom.
According to Variety, Driver joked, “I’m not going to comment on that. I’m saving it all for my book,” to laughter from the audience.
In Dunham’s memoir, Famesick, she claimed that Driver, who played Adam Thacker, Hannah Horvath’s on-again, off-again boyfriend on Girls, was emotionally unstable and sometimes scary.
Dunham, 40, recalled how she was once practicing a fight scene in her trailer when the driver became irritated with her and “screamed, ‘The King say something,’ and threw a chair against the wall next to me. ‘Wake up The King,’ he told me. ‘I’m tired of just staring.'”
Despite this, Dunham emphasized that during the first season of the HBO series in 2012, she and Driver “still felt like partners” and that she would “spend an enormous amount of time wondering if Adam liked me.”
“He can be short-tempered, verbally aggressive, condescending, and physically imposing,” she writes, but “he can also be protective and even affectionate.”
In an interview with the Guardian, Ms Dunham claimed the driver screamed in her face and punched a hole in the wall of her trailer.
“I didn’t have those skills at the time… It never crossed my mind to say, ‘I’m your boss, you can’t talk to me like this,'” said Dunham, who is also the creator and showrunner of “Girls.”
In a subsequent interview on the Today show, Dunham declined to discuss her work experience with the House of Gucci actor.
“I think I wrote about power dynamics that a lot of young women can understand in the workplace,” she explained.
“I really want people to read it in context and understand it as a whole. … This is more about my experience of coming to some kind of understanding of my power as a boss than it is about anything else,” Dunham added.
Driver was in Cannes to promote Paper Tiger, directed by James Gray and co-starring Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson. Teller and Driver play brothers who unwittingly become involved with Russian gangsters.
The film premiered on Saturday night and received a seven-minute standing ovation.
