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Minnie Driver says marrying Josh Brolin would have been "the biggest mistake of my life". The 54-year-old actress - who has 15-year-old son Henry with former partner Timothy J. Lea - got engaged to Josh, 56, back in 2001 but the pair called things off just five months later and Minnie feels it was the best decision for everyone. Speaking to The Times magazine, she said: "The one time I was engaged, it would have been, I think, the biggest mistake of my life." Minnie - who also had a high-profile romance with Matt Damon - explained that the relationship of her parents, Gaynor and Charles, affec...
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Minnie Driver has admitted it "annoys her no end" that she was vilified for speaking out about her Hollywood experiences, 30 years before the #MeToo movement. The 54-year-old star - who has 15-year-old son Henry with former partner Timothy J. Lea - was "crucified" for speaking out about misogyny and the way she was treated in Hollywood, including being asked to fake an orgasm in front of 17 executives for an advertisement audition, and branded a troublemaker, and while she thinks the industry has seen a host of positive changes in recent years, she is still upset that she wasn't takens eriousl...
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Minnie Driver bought a mobile home in Malibu after a chance encounter in a coffee shop. The 54-year-old actress lived in Hollywood and wanted so badly to live in the Santa Monica beach city but just couldn't afford it until an employee in a coffee shop introduced her to her parents who had made a home in a trailer park. Speaking on the 'Table Manners' podcast, she told hosts Jessie and Lennie Ware: "Well, that was all I could afford in Malibu. This is my 23rd year there. I couldn't afford one of the $60 million homes then, now they're $120 million in Malibu. I used to surf. I lived in Hollywoo...
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Minnie Driver wishes she could have comforted her younger self when she was heartbroken over her and Matt Damon’s break-up. The actress, 54, dated Matt, 53, from 1997 to 1998 after they played love interests in ‘Good Will Hunting’ but their romance came to a halt when the actor announced he was single during an appearance on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ – and Minnie was famously seen looking heartbroken in the audience when Matt won an Oscar for his titular role in the film just after their split. Minnie told the ‘Jennifer Hudson Show’ about wishing she could have gone back and spoken to her young...
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David Ayer thinks there are similarities between 'The Beekeeper' and classic action movies such as 'Die Hard'. The 55-year-old filmmaker has helmed the new action thriller that stars Jason Statham as Adam Clay, a man living a quiet life as a beekeeper who embarks on a deadly vengeance mission, and explained that the picture has the feel of iconic 1980s films from the genre. Asked how he got involved in the project, David told Collider: "I got this amazing script from Kurt Wimmer, and Kurt got Jason involved, and I've always been interested in working with Jason. I just saw so much potential an...
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Minnie Driver believes 'Friends' contributed to Matthew Perry's "inner struggle". The 'Good Will Hunting' actress forged a friendship with the late actor - who died in October aged 54 - when they starred in a production of 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago' in London in 2003, and she recalled his frustration at being unable to break away from being known as Chandler Bing, his sitcom alter ego. Writing for The Guardian newspaper, Minnie shared: "That summer, he was also loving exploring this world outside 'Friends' [which finished a year later in 2004], very deliberately living and working as an ac...
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Minnie Driver looked sad when Matt Damon won his Oscar for ‘Good Will Hunting’ as she was “devastated” their relationship had ended weeks before the ceremony. The 53-year-old actress played Matt’s love interest in the 1998 film, which won the now 53-year-old an Academy Award for best original screenplay alongside his 51-year-old writing partner Ben Affleck. In a resurfaced clip of the moment the pair scooped the trophy, Minnie is sporting a sad expression, and when one social media user said she looked “so sad” she opened up online about her heartbreak over her and Matt’s split. She said: “Mat...
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Minnie Driver once faked an orgasm to get a job. The 53-year-old actress was asked about the most "embarrassing moment" of her career so far and revealed that in the early days, she was trying out for a chocolate bar advert and was horrified to have been asked to act as if she was orgasming in front of a load of male TV executives. She said: "When I was starting out, in the early 90s, I had to fake an orgasm in a room full of male ad execs at an audition for a chocolate bar ad. It was grim!" Meanwhile, the 'Circle of Friends' star - who has been in a relationship with filmmaker Addison O'Dea, ...
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Neil Gaiman will voice a talking mongoose in the dark comedy 'Nandor Fodor'. 'The Sandman' writer is the latest addition to the flick being directed by Adam Sigal from his own script and joins an ensemble that includes Simon Pegg, Minnie Driver and Christopher Lloyd. The movie is based on true events and follows British-American psychoanalyst Nandor Fondor (Peg) on his search to discover the real Talking Mongoose Gef. Gaiman is voicing the mongoose with Driver starring as Fodor's assistant Anne who accompanies him into uncharted territory. Tim Downie, Ruth Connell, Paul Kaye, Gary Beadle and D...
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Minnie Driver's biggest fear is "something happening" to her son Henry. The 'Good Will Hunting' actress - who has a 13-year-old son from a brief relationship with producer Timothy J. Lea - as "all the light" in her life, and admitted she gets scared for his safety. Asked about her biggest fear, she told Stylish magazine: "Something happening to my son." And when it comes to her greatest love, she added: "My son. He's all the meaning and all the light." The 52-year-old star revealed while she isn't afraid of death, she hates the idea of leaving her son behind having lost her own mum in March th...
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