Adam Driver Walks off NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ to Avoid Listening

“Marriage Story” actor Adam Driver walked out of a taping of NPR’s “Fresh Air” with host Terry Gross earlier this month after a clip of him singing from the Netflix movie was performed throughout his interview.

“We don’t really understand why he left,” this system’s government producer Danny Miller stated in a press release. “We had been wanting ahead to the interview — Terry thinks he’s a terrific actor, he was an incredible visitor when he was on (“Fresh Air”) in 2015 — so we had been disenchanted that we didn’t have a brand new interview to share with our listeners about ‘Marriage Story.’”

The clip that was performed comes late within the Netflix film when Driver’s character sings Stephen Sondheim’s “Being Alive” in a karaoke bar.

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Ironically, Driver had instructed “Fresh Air” about his apprehension listening to himself again in 2015. “Yeah, no, I’ve watched myself or listened to myself before, then always hate it,” Driver stated on the time. “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.”

Knowing this, Driver was invited to take away his headphones whereas the “Marriage Story” clip performed after which an engineer would cue the actor when it was over to proceed the interview.

“But this time around, after the clip concluded we were informed by our engineer in NY that he had walked out of the studio, and then left the building,” Miller added. “We still don’t understand why Adam Driver chose to leave the interview at that point.”

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Back in October, Driver instructed New York journal about comparable conditions: He hid within the inexperienced room throughout a screening of “BlacKkKlansman” and obtained nauseous in the course of the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” premiere.

The actor has had a busy promotional tour schedule between November’s “The Report” on Amazon, “Marriage Story” on Netflix and Disney’s “Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker,” which opens Friday.

Driver did attend the premiere of “Rise of Skywalker” on Tuesday evening in Hollywood and even took the stage together with his co-stars. No phrase on whether or not he stayed within the viewers in the course of the screening.

The Daily Beast was first to report the story.