Minnie Driver says she remains to be ‘defined’ by relationship with Matt Damon
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ritish actress Minnie Driver has stated she remains to be “defined by a 25-year-old relationship” with actor Matt Damon, who was her co-star within the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting.
Driver performed Skylar, who dated Damon’s character Will, and the actors went on so far in actual life, earlier than Damon introduced he was single throughout an Oprah Winfrey interview in 1998.
Talking about her relationship with Damon, Driver advised Good Morning Britain: “Matt is amazing and has had this amazing career and I’ve had this amazing career and it was this, this lovely fragment of sweetness when we were really young, and everything was beginning.”
She went on: “We do tend to establish women within the context of who they have been in relationships with. I find that a bit annoying and reductive.
“But for me, the answer has always just been to do more. You write books, you make more music, you make more films and television, you answer all of that noise with your brightness and your interest.”
When Good Will Hunting was launched it acquired an Academy Award for greatest authentic screenplay, amongst different gongs.
In spite of her many movie and TV credit, the actress stated that she by no means felt like she “fit” the Hollywood perfect.
Driver stated: “The box, which is the sort of expectation, I never quite fit into.
“I don’t really think I fit into it in Hollywood or anywhere and in a way, getting older is about realising that that’s so fine and actually so great and idiosyncratic and that we try to typicalise everything.”
Talking in regards to the “nonsensical” concept of the “difficult” girl, Driver added: “It is created to suppress women.
“Particularly in the 90s, you were over sexualised and underappreciated and not expected to speak out and if you did speak out about anything, you were branded shrill, feisty, difficult, outspoken. I love and also loathe those words when they are used in the context of women.”
The Circle Of Friends actress additionally mentioned her 2022 memoir, Managing Expectations, which explores themes of motherhood, relationships and performing.
Driver’s different credit embody TV exhibits The Witcher: Blood Origin, Will And Grace, About A Boy and the 2021 film musical Cinderella.