I’ll start off by saying that I have a wee crush on Adam Driver—seriously,
who don’t I have a crush on—though he’s not what you might call
classically handsome; he just has something. So, this story piqued my
interest.
Driver has been in the gossip columns this week because he
was accused of assaulting 73-year-old Lidia Franco, his co-start in Terry
Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Franco about her
experience on set in a recent interview that was conducted in Portuguese and ALLEGEDLY
the English translation of her quotes caused lots of confusion on social
media.
In the initial interview, Franco seemingly accused Adam Driver
of attacking her with a chair, and also claimed that extras and crew members
were ordered not to look at him or even be around him when they weren’t
filming. Both Gilliam and the production company have said none of these stories
are true, and now, ALLEGEDLY, the rumors are being blamed on bad
translations.
In a statement, Franco now says she was never assaulted by
Driver, and that he never threw a chair at her, but, in a scene they filmed
together:
“Our characters … had to be physically close. I considered
the actor’s [she can’t even say his name?] behavior to be rude because, in the
preparation of a scene, he didn’t take the care I believe he should have taken
… and every time he stood up with the force of the character to do the rest of
the scene, the chair in which he was sitting would bump into me with some
force, which bothered me.”
Now, she claims that in the original interview she was just
venting, though somehow she turned a bump into an assault.
I looked up the Portuguese translation for ‘Karen.’
It’s Karen.
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