Adam Driver will not return in the Girls revival
The actor revealed by Lena Dunham’s series has dampened fans’ hopes: he will not reprise his role of Adam Sackler.
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Asked by CinemaBlend about a possible return in the revival of Girls, the actor was very clear:
“No, I won’t be, but I wish them luck.”
A brief answer, but one that closes the door to a reunion with Hannah and her gang.
Announced in mid-October, this new limited series will have five episodes and will see Lena Dunham reprise her role as Hannah Horvath.
Allison Williams (Marnie Michaels), Jemima Kirke (Jessa Johansson) and Zosia Mamet (Shoshanna Shapiro) will also return, as will Andrew Rannells, who will return to the character of Elijah Krantz. Filming is scheduled to begin in 2027 for broadcast on HBO.
It was Girls that revealed Adam Driver to the general public. The actor played Adam Sackler, Hannah’s boyfriend, before becoming one of the faces of the new Star Wars trilogy, in which he played Kylo Ren. Since then, his career has taken on a whole new dimension, but he doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to return to the streets of Brooklyn. He will, instead, join Marvel’s X-Men.
Above all, since the end of Girls, Driver has been questioned by Lena Dunham in her memoirs (Famesick), published this year. She spoke of the tensions that sometimes marked the filming, going so far as to describe some of her behavior as angry, even violent. “He could be angry and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing. He could also be protective, even affectionate,” she wrote. Asked in Cannes on this subject, the actor, who came to present Paper Tiger by James Gray, responded laconically: “I have no comment to make on that, I reserve everything for my book…” In this context, his absence from the revival of Girls seemed almost self-evident.
