Adam Driver Won’t Return for Girls Revival as HBO Sets 2027 Shoot
Adam Driver told an interview published Nov. 6 he will not appear in HBO's five-episode Girls revival. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet are returning, and production begins in 2027.
Actor Adam Driver won’t return for HBO's Girls revival, he said in an interview published Nov. 6, 2026. Asked directly whether he would be part of the long-awaited reboot, Driver answered: "No, but I wish them the best of luck."
Driver played Adam Sackler, the love interest of Lena Dunham's character, on the original comedy. His answer came nearly one month after HBO announced the revival.
What HBO has announced
Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet will reprise their roles in a five-episode revival. HBO has said production will begin in 2027, 10 years after the original five-season run ended.
That finale saw Dunham's character, Hannah Horvath, leave New York City and give birth to a baby boy named Grover.
Dunham, who created the series, explained the decision in an Oct. 13 press release. "We always said we would only return to Girls if there was a specific story we were burning to tell," she said. "I've missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn't quite picture them in the present day."
She said Marnie Michaels (Williams), Jessa Johansson (Kirke), Shoshanna Shapiro (Mamet) and Andrew Rannells' Elijah Krantz "started talking to me in the shower" around her 40th birthday in May.
"And, as you may remember, once this fivesome starts talking it's pretty hard to get them to stop," Dunham added.
Dunham's memoir and Driver's response
Six months before the show was greenlit, Dunham described a difficult working relationship with Driver in her memoir Famesick. She alleged he had "feral" outbursts on set, including hurling a chair at a wall next to her.
Dunham wrote that she was dealing with dissociation linked to undiagnosed endometriosis at the time. She also alleged that carefully planned blocking for intimate scenes "went out the window" once cameras rolled.
She said Driver told her at the 2017 wrap that he would "always love" her. She claims she "never heard from him again."
Driver responded to the claims at the Cannes press conference for his film Paper Tiger in May. "I have no comment on any of that," he said. "I'm saving it all for my book."
Dunham, Williams, Kirke and Mamet are the cast members HBO has confirmed so far. Production on the five episodes starts in 2027.
