Actress Lena Dunham has a lot to say about her ‘Girls’ co-star Adam Pilote. Although he is best known for playing the villainous Kylo Ren and the redeemed Ben Solo in the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy, he first debuted as Hannah Horvath’s on-and-off love interest Adam Sackler for all six seasons of the HBO comedy. In her tell-all memoir, “Famesick,” Dunham detailed her high-profile relationships, health struggles and the years she spent on “Girls.”
Lena Dunham claims Adam Driver was ‘spectacularly rude’ to her
In an interview with The Guardian promoting his memoir “Famesick,” Dunham admitted: “I also care a lot about people being happy, feeling free, heard and unafraid. A lot of it is because I don’t want people to feel some of the things I felt.”
Excerpts from the book were not published in full in the interview, but the interview states that he was allegedly “spectacularly rude” to her and claimed that he once threw a chair at the wall next to her, punched a hole in the wall of her trailer and screamed in her face.
Lena Dunham responds to allegations she made in her book
“At the time, I didn’t have the skills to… it never occurred to me to say, ‘I’m your boss, you can’t talk to me that way,'” Dunham said in the interview when addressing Driver’s alleged behavior. “And, at that point, in my 20s, I still thought that’s what great male geniuses did: eviscerate you. Which is weird, because I was raised by a male genius who would never do that.”
“I have a lot of amazing men in my life,” she continued. “Judd [Apatow] is one of my great heroes; Working Title’s Tim Bevan is a big part of my life, as is cinematographer Sam Levy. I just worked with Mark Ruffalo, the most thoughtful, sensitive, politically engaged, beautiful person. There are plenty of them walking around. But there have been years where I’ve wondered: Can’t I just make things that only have women in them?
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Driver for comment, but he has not yet responded as of this article’s publication.
Adam Driver is known for his intensity
In March 2026, the actor Dave Franco revealed that while he was doing dubbing for his new Pixar film “Hoppers,” the recording booth had what became known as the “Adam Driver bar” installed due to its intensity while filming his “Star Wars” lines. In a clip from BBC’s “The One Show,” Franco said:
“So when I first walked into the recording booth, I remember walking in and there was this metal bar in front of me. I was like, ‘Guys, what is this bar for?’
Wyatt Russell ‘heard about it’
After Franco said people in the industry seriously call it the “Adam Driver bar,” another guest Wyatt Russell confirmed the name, saying, “I heard about it! I was going to say something, and I didn’t say anything.”
Franco credited the role of Driver in “Star Wars” for this feature film. “Yeah, so I guess when he was playing Kylo Ren, he was doing voice stuff in the studio, and I guess he just needed something to hold on to.” He added, “And he invented this thing that changed animation forever.”
“Adam Driver is a genius,” Russell added, saying the bar “really works.”
Adam Driver won’t be returning to ‘Star Wars’ anytime soon
While promoting his film “Father Mother Sister Brother” in October 2025, Driver told the Associated Press that he and director Steven Soderbergh spent about two years developing a “Star Wars” film, which they called “The Hunt For Ben Solo.”
The film would have centered on the character Driver, who appears to have died at the end of 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker.” Although Lucasfilm approved the idea and brought in Scott Z. Burns to write the script, it was scrapped by Disney boss Bob Iger.
“We pitched the script to Lucasfilm. They loved the idea. They totally understood our angle and why we were doing it,” Driver told the publication. “We took it to Bob Iger and Alan Bergman and they said no. They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive. And that was it.”
In various interviews promoting his new film, “The Christophers,” Soderbergh confirmed that the film is dead and that he has no plans to return to it.
