Minnie Driver has loved a kind of longevity in Hollywood not many actors have, however there’s one expertise she considers to be the “finest” of her profession: Good Will Searching. The 53-year-old star seems again on the movie fondly, which comes as no shock because it earned her an Oscar nomination in 1998.
“That genuinely is a traditional,” she tells Yahoo, explaining she and the younger solid — together with the Academy Award-winning movie’s writers and co-stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon — “did not actually know” what sort of magic they had been creating on the time.
“We had been simply children simply having a good time making this actually a unbelievable story,” she continues, including they had been “exhausted, laughing, hilarious, cracking jokes on set.”
Driver, who’s selling her new podcast, The Lesser Lifeless, continues: “We had been simply having a good time and being in love and loving one another and I do not know, it was nice.”
Whereas making Good Will Searching, the actress met and fell in love with Damon on set, and whereas the 2 went on to have one in every of Hollywood’s extra notorious breakups, that clearly hasn’t tainted her view on the mission 25 years later.
“It repeatedly seems on kind of within the prime 100 films, finest films ever made,” she says of the 1997 movie. “It was nice.”
Good Will Searching led to a different “iconic” second in Driver’s life. The Circle of Pals star went on to attain her first Oscar nomination for Finest Supporting Actress. She calls the ruby-red Halston costume she donned “an iconic second in my life.”
“It is aged rather well,” she notes. “Like, I may put on that at this time. I believe it is in some museum someplace.”
Now, Driver enters a style she’s beforehand shied away from in her decades-long profession. The actress voices a personality within the upcoming supernatural audio collection The Lesser Lifeless. Set in New York Metropolis in 1978, the thrillers follows a colony of vampires led by Driver’s matriarh.
“It’s totally authentic and intelligent, and I might by no means performed a personality like this earlier than,” Driver says, noting she would not search out any such style except the mission is “genius and sensible.” The actress declares that “violence and horror” is “not my factor,” particularly if it is “gratuitous.”
“I haven’t got a lot of an urge for food for … the creation of violence,” Driver explains about her earlier hesitation of doing a mission on this style.
“What I put out into the world is vital to me,” she continues, noting how this scripted audio collection falls into the class of being “a extremely, actually good story” and she will justify her character’s violence.
Driver says it is a “pinch me second” that she’s “nonetheless right here working.”
“I am not hooked on something. I’ve saved some stage of sanity. I haven’t got 5 husbands and my nostril continues to be my nostril! I really feel like these nostril are the pinch me moments,” she laughs, “That I am truly simply nonetheless right here and recognizable.”
Driver provides, “And belief me, I do imagine, like, ladies have had it tough. Girls ought to do no matter it’s that makes them really feel snug. However for me, I simply suppose having a stage of sanity this far right into a profession in Hollywood — I am astonished by that!”
The Lesser Lifeless will debut March 27 solely on Wondery+.
