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 Minnie Driver
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime For many great actors, their moment when they have arrived in Hollywood is a zeitgeist to a new plateau in an acting career. However, some actors choose to press on and continue to make their impact in the roads less traveled and one such actor is actress Minnie Driver. Hailing from London, England, she made an impact in Hollywood with a role in 1997’s Good Will Hunting, which garnered her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. Since then, Driver has continued to make an impact with major and supporting roles in films like An Ideal Husband, Return To Me, Ella Enchanted, and The Phantom Of The Opera. She has also made a surprising turn as a singer-songwriter with the release of her debut album Everything I Got In My Pocket, of which the title track became a top 40 hit in the UK. Minnie’s also made an equally surprising turn on television with a popular recurring role on the sitcom Will & Grace, as well as with her current one as Dahlia Malloy on the FX drama The Riches, which garnered her an Emmy nomination for Best Actress In A Dramatic Series. Now, the 38 year-old actress embarks in what is possibly the most intense role of her career in the film Take. In the film, Minnie plays Ana, a struggling mother, who must confront the man who has forever altered her life. She first discussed with us how she got aboard on such a challenging role. “It was really, Charles Oliver, the producer, sent it to my agent and they sent it to me,” Driver recalls, “Sometimes, those things really slip through the cracks because an agency doesn’t always necessarily want you to do the lowest budget movie that comes along. I had worked with great people who recognize the profundity of this character and how it turned out.” Driver adds that it was Oliver who ultimately made her feel confident in taking on such a low-profile, high-intensity role. “It was a total crapshoot, a first-time director,” Minnie says, “Believe me, I’ve done a couple of movies with first-time directors that nobody saw them and they were terrible and there was a reason no one saw them. Charles Oliver, there was a reason, he turns out to be this virtuoso who had this incredible story to tell and he knew how to tell it in a way that wasn’t melodramatic. It’s slow-paced sometimes I feel, but I’m not sure that’s necessarily a bad thing. I feel like I understand the choices he made as a director and just having met and talked with him.” “I think I was shooting the pilot of The Riches. I was in New Orleans when I had this conversation with him,” she adds, “I was kind of out of my mind doing this crazy role and the thought of going into this part was so tough, going from one deeply emotional place to another, because I pretty much came out of that and went into ... |
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