‘F*** you, next question’: Adam Driver stuns fan with rude response after being asked why crash scenes in new Ferrari film looked ‘cheesy’

Adam Driver has stunned fans after saying ‘f*** you’ to an audience member who called crash scenes in his latest film ‘cheesy’ during a paid question and answer session.

The 39-year-old hit back at suggestions that the action scenes in the film – which received negative reviews – were ‘harsh and drastic’.

An irritated driver responded bluntly: ‘F*** you. Don’t know? Next question.’

The response prompted awkward laughter from the audience at the Camerimage Film Festival in Poland on Sunday.

The lead actor disappeared immediately after the interview and “ghosted” all the fans who were waiting for him, according to one festivalgoer who said Driver was “bored and rude.”

The viral video captured the moment the cheeky audience member said, “What are you thinking about [the] crash scenes? They looked quite harsh, drastic and, I have to say, cheesy to me. What do you think?’

Driver – who has been nominated for four Emmy Awards and two Academy Awards – clearly had no interest in answering the scathing question, as he took a long sip of his water before giving his gruff answer.

In addition to Driver playing the title role, the star-studded cast includes Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone and Sarah Gadon.

The driver couldn’t contain his emotions in August when Ferrari received a seven minute and thirty second standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival – where he was promoting the biopic – but not everyone has given the film a standing ovation.

The Venice Film Festival was boycotted by many stars during the SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Ferrari actors (and writers) were able to attend without breaking the strikes because the film was granted an exception for being made by an independent, Neon, and not a studio.

This isn’t the first awkward interview moment for Driver, who skipped an NPR interview entirely.

Driver was scheduled to record an interview for NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross in 2019, but fans of him and the show will never hear it.

The actor left midway through the interview after the host tried to get him to listen to an excerpt from his Netflix film Marriage Story.

According to NPR sources, the drama arose when Terry wanted to play a clip from late in the film, when Adam sings Being Alive from Stephen Sondheim’s iconic musical Company, but the star “expressed his displeasure” upon listening to the clip.

The Fresh Air team suggested he take off his headphones once the clip finished playing.

Piers Morgan slammed the star for being ‘extremely rude and disrespectful’ in light of the controversy over his NPR interview – while Jameela Jamil came to Driver’s defense, saying his rude behavior could be due to ‘mental health’ and that he was “just anxious.”

Director admitted this in an interview with The New Yorker that his performance in the 2013 Coen Brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis made him never want to watch his own performances again — and that’s why he walked out of his NPR interview.

On an episode of The Graham Norton Show, Driver confessed that he found Comic-Con “scary” because he couldn’t get coffee without being recognized.

He told Norton: “I didn’t know the rules. I couldn’t go out for a coffee without a mask in case I was recognized and when I opened my window there was a band playing the Star Wars theme on repeat. It was scary.’

The A-list actor and American veteran spoke to Variety at the New York Film Festival about a particularly “terrifying” scene he had to film for his recent film, in which he plays legendary sports car entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari.

At one point in the film, he had to drive a vintage open-wheel sports car that had been modified to connect a camera.

“It teleports you back in time and you realize that if you go left or right the wrong way, you’re dead,” the Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker star explained.

He added: “At least there are seat belts in the newer cars.”

The ’65 movie star further emphasized how dangerous the car felt, adding that driving it felt like being in a “moving coffin.”

Driver and Mann made it clear during a press conference at the festival that the reason drivers didn’t wear seat belts in the past was because “get[ting] thrown out of the car’, was ‘considered safer’ than being dragged around in the aforementioned ‘moving coffin’.

Mann added some more context to the thought process of no seat belts back in the day, adding, “The idea was that you would rather be thrown out of the car than dragged through the car.”

The iconic director is known for his crime dramas – including Miami Vice, Heat and The Last of the Mohicans – has been nominated for four Academy Awards, but has yet to take home the trophy.

His most recent film received a 74 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and a 6.7 out of 10 on IMDb.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film three stars and described Driver in the film as “a remote and unattractive paterfamilias.”

The film follows Enzo’s life in 1957 as he prepares his company to participate in the famous Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile motorsport race held on public roads.

Bilge Ebiri – a film critic for Vulture – gave a favorable review of the driver’s performance: ‘As Enzo, Adam Driver somehow manages to do the impossible. Ferrari was 59 years old when the events of this film took place; the actor is a full 20 years younger.

“He has convincing cheeks and worrying lines, and he definitely goes to town with his Italian accent.

‘You can’t take your eyes off him. In the hands of a less confident actor this could have been a disaster, theatrical, awkward and surreal.

‘But Driver turns Ferrari – this stiff, solid wall of a man, who towers over everyone around him and always demands our attention – into something indelible, a force not so much of nature as of steel, asphalt and death .’

Greg Potts’s film review for Top Gear refuted Ebiri’s claims that the driver’s age did not work for the role, as he is ‘clearly too young to play a nearly 60-year-old Ferrari’.

The same review criticized the film for an “excessive onslaught of CGI people traveling through the air” in the film’s crash scene.

Another review from IndieWire had similar opinions about the film’s CGI, saying that the crash scene is “probably the most glaring and impact-boring use of post-production CGI effects in a film that is primarily practical”.

The Emmy Award-winning director had the cast sign up for “race driving 101,” where they test drove modern Ferraris before filming began.

He explained that “I wanted everyone to have an experience driving these cars on a race track,” for an added layer of authenticity when they began production.

Ferrari will hit the big screen on Christmas Day.

The highly anticipated film had a budget of $110 million and began production in April 2022 after multiple decision changes over who would star.

Christian Bale was originally set to play Ferrari, then Hugh Jackman, but Adam Driver was ultimately confirmed for the role.