Minnie Driver was only 26 years old when she auditioned for the role of Skyler in Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting. It’s a performance that would earn Driver an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, but it’s one of the shows I’ve been telling recently. telegraph It almost never happened because producer Harvey Weinstein thought “no one wants to fuck her.” The driver said Weinstein sent this sexual note to the film’s director.
“I remember feeling so devastated that I realized, ‘Wait, just think about the source for a minute. That’s an unspeakable pig — why on earth are you so worried about saying that damned you’re not sexy?’” But there are ramifications to that: I probably won’t be hired because people don’t They think I have the right sex.”
Driver added, “How shocking to think I was lucky [who escaped him] Because he didn’t think I was having sex. And how amazing and wonderful it is that it has turned out and the young men and women of my industry will not experience it.”
Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape. But it wasn’t only the disgraced film producer who objected to the driver’s appearance. The actor recently said shearing That the producer in the film also didn’t think it was sexy enough for “Good Will Hunting,” which Driver found similarly “devastating.”
“Being told at 26 that you’re not sexy when you probably just got over your teen’s anxiety, and you start thinking, you know, ‘Maybe in the right light and the right shoes and the right dress, I’m all for you,'” said the driver. “When a producer—a man, a woman, or a non-binary person—distills an actor into what they consider to be his nationality, it ignores that person.”
Driver is making press tours in support of her new memoir “Managing Expectations,” which was published May 3.
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