Earlier this year, Lena Dunham published his memoir “Famesick”. In the tell-all book, she alleged that her “Girls” co-star Adam Pilote yelled in his face, threw a chair and even blew a hole in his trailer. Although the actor, best known for his role as Kylo Ren/Ben Solo in the “Star Wars” universe, has yet to publicly comment on these accusations, one of his costars is speaking out. Scarlett Johansson played the actor’s wife in the 2019 Noah Baumbach film “Marriage Story” and worked with him in the James Gray film “Paper Tiger,” which is set to debut at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 16.
Scarlett Johansson has nothing but praise for Adam Driver
Despite Lena Dunham’s accusations in her memoir “Famesick,” Johansson has nothing but praise for her “Marriage Story” co-star. In September 2025, she told PEOPLE magazine that it was “great” to work with Driver on the film.
“I love Adam as a person and he’s an absolutely amazing actor,” she said at the time. “If I could do every movie with Adam Driver, I would.”
The USDA used clips from their ‘marriage story’ fight to scare away the wolves
In the 2019 drama, Driver and Johansson play a couple going through a difficult divorce. In one scene, the two men shout at each other and Driver’s character, Charlie, even punches a hole in the wall, telling Johansson’s character, Nicole, “Every day I wake up and I hope you’re dead.”
The infamous scene was later used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to scare away a pack of gray wolves that were allegedly “terrorizing” livestock on an Oregon farm, according to the Wall Street Journal.
When told the news, Johannson joked, “I’m glad we can be of help!”
Scarlett Johansson says filming scene was ‘exhausting’
In 2019, Johansson said As if magazine that the scene was “brutal” to film. “We spent two whole days yelling at each other and yelling brutally and fighting for two whole days,” she shared at the time.
“It was exhausting, but if I didn’t have such a strong actor like Adam to take everything I gave him, I would have been lost,” she added. “For me, working with other actors is a very important part of what I do…that’s it.”
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson are not married in ‘Paper Tiger’
In their new film “Paper Tiger”, Johansson plays Hester Pearl, the wife of Irwin Pearl, played by Miles Teller. The two lead a happy life raising two boys in 1980s New York. Things take a turn for the worse when Irwin’s brother Gary, played by Adam Driver, arrives and puts the family in danger due to his ties to the Russian mafia.
“I would have loved to have had more scenes with him, I love working with him,” she told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 16.
Luckily, she had some nice things to say about being Teller’s wife this time around.
“He’s so unexpectedly tender,” she said of her relationship with Teller on set. “I left for a few weeks to do press for Jurassic – I felt crazy leaving, but I had to go – and when I was leaving, I was getting pictures of my makeup station from Miles, and he was like, “Where’s Hester?” »
Lena Dunham described a complicated relationship with Adam Driver in her book ‘Famesick’
In her memoir “Famesick,” Dunham had a lot to say about her “Girls” co-star. She revealed they “felt like partners” and she found herself asking him for advice on decisions “that weren’t his to make” despite the “chair incident”.
As The Blast previously reported, Dunham claimed they were standing in the kitchen when she “looked up to see him smiling at me with something so tender, it was like it could only be love.”
In another passage, she wrote, “I spent an awful lot of time wondering if Adam even liked me,” adding, “He could be angry and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing. He could also be protective, even loving.”
She also alleges that they almost crossed a line in their relationship when his current wife, Joanne Tucker, was out of town. Even though she told him he might come late at night, she claims she pretended to be asleep once he arrived.
“If we crossed the line we risked crossing, the return to work would be tinged with humiliation, I would minimize any authority I still had, and, regardless, my heart – bruised but probably not yet broken – would break,” she writes in the book. She alleges that Driver called her to tell her he was engaged a month after the incident and the two never spoke about it again.
Driver has yet to publicly comment on these allegations.