The British actor shot to fame in Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, but didn’t fit the Hollywood mould – and she’s fine with thatMinnie Driver first realised the film industry might be a strange place for a woman who didn’t fit its tiny mould when she was standing in some mud.
A ditch, in fact, that had been dug for her, on a hill, so that she looked shorter than the actor she was snogging.
“I was hock high in a bog, as they say in Ireland,” she says merrily, in an accent that instantly reminds me of that scene in Good Will Hunting where she tells a dirty joke and spits out her drink.
This was on a different film, the first but not the last time it happened.
She was young, new to the game.
“I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, this is just
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