10 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT ADAM DRIVER
SINCE landing his breakout role in HBO’s Girls, Adam Driver has played a brooding antihero in the Star Wars film franchise and raged through the divorce drama of Marriage Story — and now he’s carrying a tune in the quirky movie musical Annette, alongside French actress Marion Cotillard. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 37-year-old actor.
1
During his high school years in Indiana, he sold vacuum cleaners as a door-to-door salesman.
2
After seeing
1999’s Fight
Club as a teen, he started a real-life version, and claims he and pals would meet at a “big grassy field in the middle of the night and beat the s**t out of” one another.
3
After the 9/11 attacks, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.
4
He was medically discharged from the military after fracturing his sternum while mountain biking — shortly before his unit was shipped off to Iraq.
5
His first move to Hollywood was an “embarrassing” failure because his car broke down and he ran out of cash. “I had said goodbye to friends and family, like, ‘So long, guys! I’m out of this s**thole town, on to something!’ Literally, like, four days later I was moving back in with my fridge,” he recalls.
6
In 2008, he founded Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that performs theater for U.S. military service members.
7
He was forced to apply to Juilliard’s drama program twice because he failed to get in on his first try.
8
Early in his acting career in NYC, he appeared in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions — and also worked as a busboy and a waiter.
9
He nearly passed on auditioning for Girls because he thought “TV’s the devil” but was swayed by a sample script and appeared in all six seasons of the series.
10
In 2013, he married former Juilliard classmate Joanne Tucker.