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Adam Driver was asked astatine nan Cannes property convention for Paper Tiger about nan acerbic claims made astir him by Lena Dunham successful her latest memoir Famesick, and well, he unopen it down.
“I person nary remark connected immoderate of that. I’m redeeming it each for my book,” said nan 2x Oscar nominee.
In nan book by nan Girls creator and star, Dunham writes that Driver was “verbally aggressive” and “hurled a chair astatine nan wall adjacent to me.”
While filming nan couple’s first activity segment successful Season 1 of nan 2012-2017 drama, Dunham, nan show’s creator, writer, prima and director, says that “careful blocking went retired nan window” erstwhile Driver “hurled maine this measurement and that.”
“Stunned, I couldn’t speak for a moment,” she writes, “unsure of what had happened — had I mislaid directorial authority, allowed nan segment to spell disconnected nan rails, not fixed due instructions? Would I beryllium removed from my bid station immediately?”
Paper Tiger is James Gray’s sixth Cannes world premiere, received a ten-minute opinionated ovation past night, 2x arsenic agelong arsenic nan filmmaker’s erstwhile 2022 movie that was here, Armageddon Time.
Neon acquired U.S. connected Paper Tiger soon aft it was announced for an in-competition play astatine Cannes.
The movie, starring Scarlett Johansson, Driver and Miles Teller, follows 2 brothers who prosecute nan American Dream but get entangled successful a vulnerable Russian mafia strategy that terrorizes their family. Bonds are tested and betrayal boils.
