Adam Driver recently walked out of an interview with NPR's Terry Gross "after expressing displeasure at the idea" of listening to a clip of his performance in Marriage Story, The Daily Beast reports.
The executive producer of NPR's Fresh Air confirmed to The Daily Beast that the Oscar-nominated actor walked out of an interview earlier this month while a clip from the film was playing, reportedly the scene in which Driver's character sings "Being Alive."
"We don't really understand why he left," the producer said.
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The interview never aired, with NPR instead running a previously-recorded conversation with Conan O'Brien.
The Beast notes, however, that Driver's reluctance to watch or listen to himself act has been well documented and actually came up in a previous interview with Gross, during which Driver said he didn't want to listen to a clip because "[I] always hate it." According to a New Yorker profile of Driver earlier this year, he "swore off" watching his own movies for a time after "I hated what I did" in Inside Llewyn Davis, with the piece saying Driver's "reluctance amounts to a phobia."
Driver's performance in Marriage Story, especially in the "Being Alive" scene, has drawn widespread acclaim, and he's one of the frontrunners for Best Actor at the 2020 Oscars.
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