Adam Driver wastes exactly zero time confirming he's not in the Girls revival

"Nope," Driver fired back with lightning quickness, when asked if we'd be seeing Adam Sackler return for Lena Dunham's revival project.

Adam Driver wastes exactly zero time confirming he's not in the Girls revival

You may recall feeling a shift in the earth of the internet a few weeks back, a distant rumbling of some great machinery returning to grim and dismal life, as HBO announced that it was bringing Lena Dunham’s Girls—and, with it, the great and massive Girls Internet Drama Industrial Complex—back to life. But while the network confirmed back in October that Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke, Andrew Rannells, and, of course, star and creator Lena Dunham would all be dutifully back at their positions on the assembly line, generating fodder for thinkpieces, hitpieces, and whatever other kinds of pieces you might enjoy about the show’s themes, relationships, and currently hypothetical behind-the-scenes issues, at least one member of the series’ ensemble has reportedly tapped out of their shift: Adam Driver, who spent six seasons playing love interest/frustration generator Adam Sackler on the series.

Driver was asked whether he’d be throwing himself back into this particular thresher on Friday, with Cinema Blend taking the hit (per THR) of asking the actor, busy promoting his new movie Paper Tiger, whether there was “any chance” he’d be involved. Driver’s response arrived with, at the risk of psychoanalyzing, both the speed and the spin of someone who’s been practicing to backhand this particular serve for a minute: “Nope,” he says, lightning-quick, before adding a politely sincere “But I wish them the best of luck.”

It feels worth noting that Dunham wrote about Driver extensively in her 2026 memoir Famesick, including recounting incidents where he was rude and even physically aggressive toward her while they were working on the series. (She notes that during one heated rehearsal where she forgot her lines, he yelled at her and threw a chair near her.) “Who knows,” she wrote while describing their farewells from the series, “Maybe I’d write him new parts. We would tell new stories. We would laugh at the way things had been, and smile at the way they were now.” Instead, she writes, “I never heard from him again.” (We don’t know if Lena Dunham reads Cinema Blend, but it sounds like things on that score haven’t exactly thawed.)

Dunham’s Girls revival is expected to go into production in 2027.

 
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