Despite her not entirely sunny memories from their time working together, Lena emphasized that her experience of Adam’s prior behavior doesn’t provide a full scope of his temperament.
“I think that that was all of our first job, so I wouldn’t say Girls would be a road map for how anyone behaved anywhere else,” Lena said during an April 11 appearance on The New York Times’ The Interview. “It was very like, ‘Seven strangers sent to live in a house in Seattle—what’s gonna happen?’”
In fact, she joked things could have been much worse, adding, “One thing that’s miraculous is no one dated and no one punched each other.”
What’s more, as a director and actress, Lena respected Adam’s craft.
“I love watching him,” she added. “I learned more from him than anyone I’ve ever stood across from on camera. I feel like in a way, that was the best I’ll ever be at acting and I don’t know if I could even pull that off again because so much of it came from what was being handed to me.”
When it came to what she remembered about Adam’s on-set behavior, Lena admitted she would change how she personally responded to it.
“Were I to go back, I would so not take that behavior personally,” she said. “I would understand everyone is just doing what they need to do to make it happen.”