Adam Driver's First Girls Audition Was Really Strange
Lena Dunham recalls Adam Driver's first audition for Girls. The Kylo Ren actor starred in all six seasons of the HBO dramedy series as the on-again, off-again boyfriend, Adam Sackler, of struggling writer Hannah Horvath (Dunham). Executively produced by Judd Apatow, Girls is a semi-autobiographical series created and written by Dunham. The show's other titular girls include Hannah's best friend and roommate, Marnie (Allison Williams), their former college classmate Jessa (Jemima Kirke), and her cousin Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet).
Girls acted as an early breakthrough for Driver in his career, a role which he received three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations for from 2013 to 2015. From there, Driver was cast as the sympathetic antagonist Ben Solo a.k.a. Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, which launched his film career to new heights despite previously only starring in supporting roles in several Noah Baumbach films, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, and the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. Driver's most recent film is Ridley Scott's House of Gucci in which he plays the head of the titular fashion house.
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In a new profile from THR discussing her new Sundance film Sharp Stick, Dunham looked back on the audition that started it all for Driver. In the script, his character's appearance was described as "a golden-haired God" à la Friday Night Lights' Taylor Kitsch. While handsome and charismatic, Driver is a far cry from that description. Regardless, Driver gave an "astonishing" and "strange" audition, and Dunham saw something in him that told her he would be perfect for the part. Read how she described the audition below:
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