Allison Williams has reacted to Lena Dunham’s bombshell memoir, dodging a question about their Girls co-star Adam Driver.
In the new book Famesick, Dunham accused Driver, who played her love interest in the HBO comedy drama, of throwing a chair while they were practising lines and punching a hole in his trailer wall.
Dunham, 39, described Driver in this period as “something feral”, calling him “half-man, half-beast”, and claimed that the future Star Wars actor was difficult to work with and occasionally volatile.
Williams, who played Marnie in the series, was asked about the allegations on Tuesday (14 April), but told Variety: “I need to read more before I say anything about it.”
The M3GAN actor said she had only read up to the part where Dunham recounts the table read for the very first Girls episode.
“I was just saying that the most surprising thing was, almost, I thought that she was gonna write that I was 40 minutes late, and then I saw the word 'early', and I was like, 'That's more on brand,’” she said.
Williams said she speaks to Dunham “all the time”, adding: "We love each other. It's a lifelong bond."
Girls, which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017, followed the lives of four friends living in New York. Dunham created the show and played the lead character, Hannah, while Driver played Adam, her emotionally fraught on-off boyfriend.
Dunham claimed in the book that she and Driver “fought often”, but added there was an “intensity” to their connection.
“Sometimes I’d tell him he made me feel safe,” she wrote. “I didn’t yet understand that sometimes you say what you wish were true, instead of just saying what is.”
However, she said that she “didn’t tell anyone” about the chair-throwing 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.
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.
The Independent has contacted Driver’s representatives for comment. Famesick is out now.
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