Lena Dunham is addressing her rocky, now-over professional and personal relationships with her former Girls co-star Adam Driver in her new memoir Famesick, and explaining why she wrote about him.
The two played the HBO series’ main romantic, if troubled, couple, and Dunham suggests the turbulent depiction had nothing on real life.
While filming the couple’s first sex scene in Season 1 of the 2012-2017 drama, Dunham, the show’s creator, writer, star and director, says that “careful blocking went out the window” when Driver “hurled me this way and that.”
“Stunned, I couldn’t speak for a moment,” she writes, “unsure of what had happened — had I lost directorial authority, allowed the scene to go off the rails, not given proper instructions? Would I be removed from my command post immediately?”
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She continues, “It wasn’t that I felt
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