Why did Minnie Driver's career go straight down the shitter?

She's odd looking and seems large and ungainly.

I suspect she's hard to cast.

She has a face like a 50p coin.

She's not someone I ever would have pegged as Irish.

She's English

R1, she was good enough for Matt Damon!

R4, doh!

Good actress with a gigantic lollipop head, a draft horse's body and considerable height (she is almost 6 feet tall). There are many other actresses who are just as talented as she is but don't have the build of a wrestler, so she is passed over in favour of more conventionally attractive and feminine thespians.

They threw series at her and none were any good, really, except The Riches was conceptually clever. She's surprisingly likable but also forgettable.

This will explain it fully.

Her Chalamet Jawline is unattractive.

She’s a you-know-what!

Her best work was in Will and Grace. Ultimately Americans got sick of her bratty British accent

she has a face that's just begging to be slapped

[quote] she was good enough for Matt Damon!

Not for long, fag. I dumped her on Oprah.

Her Sea Stories album is quite good. Especially Beloved and Lakewater Hair. Her third album was a covers album. I hope she does a fourth.

Because her head is shaped like a Christmas present

I liked her in that FX show about the con artist family.

Love Minnie! Maybe she could do more theater?

Catherine Zeta-Jones rather stole her thunder, didn’t she?

I had no idea she sang. I just listened to a few of her songs, very nice voice.

I liked her in Circle of Friends and on Will and Grace

Is it a dwarf?

Square head. It's hard to cast. But she's very talented and quite delightful. Weinstein hated her.

She’s a woman over 50. Hollywood decision-makers have had sufficient.

R23 Weinstein seemed to have an intense hatred towards British actresses in particular. I wonder if they were more likely to stand up to him or something. Though of course he hated all women and many men too.

She seemed like a VERY unlikely star to begin with

She's actually worked steadily.

She should troon out to gain interest. She's got the jaw and height for it.

[quote]R19 Catherine Zeta-Jones rather stole her thunder, didn’t she?

Well, it’s always like that, isn’t it? When the younger generation of actresses comes along?

It seems to me that the way to do celebrity is to get in, get your Fuck You money, and vanish before you’re eaten alive. Maybe she agrees.

She was no Vance!

Is she hiding walnuts in her cheeks?

I’m ready to play her in the biopic. Same head.

Ahh, R19, you got there before me! Hahaha! What I thought of immediately.

I mostly know her as the mom from The Riches. She didn't outshine Eddie Izzard but she held her own. That was a decent show.

R25 but Weinstein's wife is English. Maybe the masochist in him married a nationality he despised just to cheat on her so voraciously.

OP who ever found her appealing!?

She is instantly forgettable. Born the same year as Heather Graham, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Connolly and fellow Brit Rachel Weisz, to name just a few. And of course Minnie had to disclose she the victim of sexual assault, but as with most bandwagon jumpers, can't quite remember the full details or whether she was 16 or 17.

She's flat out hideous! Try sharing a driveway with her!

R38 It's a common misconception that rape victims must accurately remember every single detail of the rape and the rapist or they're lying sluts. Memory is a tricky thing. Maybe she was assaulted near her 17th birthday and can't remember if it happened before or after her birthday. Nice to know there are people like you still repeating the same old bullshit.

R11 Isn't she a white ethnic? I know she is part Italian. Otherwise what did jew mean?

R40, bit like Minnie repeating the same old bullshit. Did you read the article? Some dude grabbed her by the elbow to take her onto a dancefloor, she refused, he hit her. That's not sexual assault (if indeed it did happen), but physical assault. Sexual assault sounds so much more.........dramatic...And of course in terms of Harvey Weinstein, she had to be the one woman in ALL of Hollywood he didn't try it on with....because lo and behold, he said she was unattractive. This from the guy who'd plow anything. She's a bullshit merchant.

Her passive aggressive clapping while refusing to make eye contact with Damon (who had dumped her by this point) is priceless.

Oh wow R43. Hadn't clocked that before. She was lucky he'd even date her in the first place.

She's flat out hideous.

Look at her eyes @ R42. She reminds me of GI Jada

Matt Damon

Unusual looks. I like her.

I loved her in Speechless. Great show.

She’s striking. She was great in The Governess.

Didn't she want a singing career at one point around the time she was dating Josh Brolin. Babs tried to help.

[quote][R38] It's a common misconception that rape victims must accurately remember every single detail of the rape and the rapist or they're lying sluts. Memory is a tricky thing. Maybe she was assaulted near her 17th birthday and can't remember if it happened before or after her birthday. Nice to know there are people like you still repeating the same old bullshit.

I was sexually assaulted by a man I'd met online for a hook up when I was around 25. I went to his house, I had a drink and tried to politely leave without saying IT'S BECAUSE YOUR PHOTOS ARE 10 YEARS OLD AND YOU SMELL but he ended up forcing me against a wall by my throat and trying to pull my trousers down and put my hand on his cock. At some point I managed to push him off and get out of the house.

I know which part of the city it was in, I remember he had a red front door, I can't remember the house number or street address, I remember part of his gaydar profile handle and that one of his photos was of him with a surfboard but I can't remember his name.

Separated at birth

She’s talented. I got the impression she headed back to England shortly after Ewan McGregor accused her of ‘going Hollywood.’ This was years ago and she continued to do American stuff but her overall profile was greatly reduced.

The first time I saw her in a movie, I thought she looked just like Judy the Frog, from HR Pufnstuf.

ugly as sin.......

Look at the face.

OP, have you seen her "act"?

And that mouth is like a python's.

r21 I may have to rewatch Circle of Friends, it has been years. But I remember rooting for her in that movie, she was very likable in that part.

I wonder if she ever ate out Matt's and Ben's young fragrant asses together while Matt and Ben were making out. s

I feel like Minnie should embrace and own who she is and how she looks a bit stronger. She doesn't have to be pretty to be a great actress. I hope she takes some good parts that are right for her. I wouldn't want to be a woman of a certain age in Hollywood. Hehe. actually I wouldn't want to be a woman any age, ever.

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the one and done people are a sorry lot

It’s curious that Driver played some bitches early on in England, then somehow became a (less interesting) nice girl.

She got to fuck Matt Damon.

Minnie Driver never became a less interesting anything - there's not a part that Scarlett Johansson played that Minnie Driver wouldn't have been better at or done more with. We know why she didn't get most of them.

Speaking of Rachel Weisz - just what's so great about her other than the way she looked 25 years ago? I can't remember a moment of anything she's ever done on screen. She really should have played Ralph Fiennes housekeeper in Schindler's List.

I like Minnie. I fully expect a third act from her.

Rachel and Scarlett, not so much.

R65 Rachel isn't the most exciting actress but she's fine, she's capable.

[quote]r65 Rachel Weisz… really should have played Ralph Fiennes housekeeper in Schindler's List.

I expected more from Embeth Davidtz. But I did notice she turned up for a season of IN TREATMENT.

She a bitch!

Wtf R42 are you talking about? No actress is going to pretend they were so unattractive that even Weinstein didn't want them. If anything, an actress is going to do the opposite... It is entirely believable that Weinstein didn't want her in that film due to her looks and frankly, I have a feeling many producers didn't want her in their films for the same reason.

Why was Matt Damon attracted to her?

Just yesterday I passed up her solo CD in the 49cent bin..... and what was the point of this song again from Phantom? ugh

Anyone remember her in GoldenEye, singing "Stand By Your Man"?

R60, she has a face big enough to take them both on and toss their salads simultaneously.

Why is the sudden answer "Weinstein RUINED her!" for every middling looking/middling talent actress that didn't become a superstar?

[quote]She used to be everywhere

Yeah, for about two seconds.

We saw her flying from Tampa to LA and she had an angry looking rash on her face And, she rode coach!

She should be a shoe in for character roles now. She was never leading lady pretty.

I always found Matt and Minnie a puzzling couple. What was she doing in "Good Will Hunting" anyway? The only thing I remember about her is her eating a hamburger with her huge mouth and telling a long and unfunny joke.

[quote] I always found Matt and Minnie a puzzling couple.

She was clearly that big fagola's beard!

She looks like a librarian now.

Face is well-maintained, but the hands tell the real story.

R79 Deo LiCaprio - fag!

Her Father was a fraudster and responsible for what was called the biggest corporate collapse in British business history.

she's a known social climber that pulled too much of the "I'm not like Hollywood" routine..

she's also kind of dumb but thinks she's smart and has a bigger ego than her career. . . so, pair that up with the "I'm not like other girls/celebs routine and being a guppy when it comes to biz deals.

it's probably more that she's just personally unlikable -- she was pretty hated in the UK, too --- ok in short bursts but socially exhausting. Most think she's fake and they recognize she's a climber, so they don't trust her. Frankly, shocked she hasn't become a reality star by now... with her physically large bobble head.

Most thought she should have pushed harder for a music career.. she likely would have had one but she didn't want to become known as as a "country" star in her debut and they were promoting to her much as the actress Minnie Driver that could sing rather than a multiinstrumentalist singer, songwriter.

Her career overall is pretty half assed. She won't fight for a role and she's only as good as the surrounding actors.

Minnie loves doing rimming.

Them big jaws and cheeks though! Brrrrrrrr....

[quote]ugly as sin.......

Not half as ugly as her more successful (not) brother, Adam.

R87 Minnie has the bigger cock of the two

R42 Heavy Whalestein supposedly didn't try to oump,get sucked by,or lick Kate Becksinsale. He got off on treating her like a misbehaving child.