Adam Driver walked out of an interview with NPR’s talk show “Fresh Air” earlier this month after listening to a clip of his own acting.
During a break from the interview, “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross played a clip of Driver, 36, singing “Being Alive” from the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company” in Netflix’s movie “Marriage Story,” prompting Driver to leave the interview, .
The radio host’s team knew that Driver notoriously does not like listening to recordings of himself acting and suggested that he put in headphones if any clips were played back. However, Driver, who was in NPR’s New York studios for the interview, walked out when Gross played the clip from the show’s base at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia.
“We don’t really understand why he left,” Danny Miller, Fresh Air’s executive producer, told Daily Beast. “We were looking forward to the interview — Terry thinks he’s a terrific actor, he was a great guest when he was on [‘Fresh Air’] in 2015 — so we were disappointed that we didn’t have a new interview to share with our listeners about ‘Marriage Story.’ ”
Driver has expressed his discomfort with listening to clips in the past, including on a previous “Fresh Air” interview in 2015, Daily Beast points out.
“Yeah, no, I’ve watched myself or listened to myself before, then always hate it,” Driver said in the🍨 2015 interview. “And then wish I could change it, but you can’t. And I think I have, like, a tendency to try to make things better or drive myself and the other people around me crazy with the things I wanted to change or I wish I could change.”
Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” was released on Netflix Dec. ﷺ6 and stars Driver and Scarlett Johansson.