Adam Driver Rules Out Return for Girls Reboot, Sends Best Wishes to Former Co-Stars.
Adam Driver isn't prepared to represent a new generation. The Star Wars actor confirmed he won't be involved in the project, about a month after HBO announced that Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, and Zosia Mamet would be returning to their roles in a five-episode revival of the series.
In fact, Driver, who portrayed Dunham's love interest Adam Sackler on the show, told Cinema Blend in an interview published on November 6 that he would not be returning for the eagerly anticipated reboot, saying, "No, but I wish them the best of luck."
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Ten years after Dunham's character Hannah Horvath moved out of New York City and gave birth to a baby boy named Grover, the five-season run of Girls came to an end. HBO previously stated that filming on the revival would begin in 2027.
“We always said we would only return to Girls if there was a specific story we were burning to tell," the series' creator, Dunham, revealed this in a press statement dated October 13. "I've missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn’t quite picture them in the present day."
The famous characters from the comedy, Marnie Michaels (Williams), Jessa Johansson (Kirke), and Shoshanna Shapiro (Mamet), along with Andrew Rannells' Elijah Krantz, "started talking to me in the shower" around her 40th birthday in May, according to the This is 40 actress.
"And, as you may remember, once this fivesome starts talking it’s pretty hard to get them to stop," Dunham added. "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."
In her memoir Famesick, Dunham described the Marriage Story star's claimed "feral" outbursts on set and provided insight into her and Driver's difficult behind-the-scenes relationship six months prior to the show's approval.
“Adam screamed, ‘F--KING SAY SOMETHING’ and hurled a chair at the wall next to me,’” Dunham claimed that she was experiencing dissociation as a result of her untreated endometriosis at the time. “‘WAKE THE F--K UP,’ he told me. ‘I’M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.’”
Additionally, she claimed that when the cameras started rolling, the "careful blocking" that had been set up for them during sex scenes "went out the window" and that Driver would, in character, "hurl me this way and that" during private moments.
“Part of me was afraid that when I turned around, I would find I was suddenly in a full-penetration 1970s porno,” she acknowledged it. “But after a few mimed thrusts, I called cut.”
Dunham says she "never heard from him again," despite the fact that she remembered Driver telling her he would "always love" her when the show ended in 2017.
According to Variety, Driver responded to her allegations at the Cannes press conference for his movie Paper Tiger in May. “I have no comment on any of that. I’m saving it all for my book."
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