13. Minnie Driver
Young Again
BBC
4.6 • 651 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Kirsty Young asks actor Minnie Driver what advice she would give her younger self.
Driver has fashioned a 30-year career in the entertainment industry since becoming a Hollywood star in movies including Circle of Friends and Grosse Pointe Blank. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Good Will Hunting, and she revisits that famous Oscar night with Kirsty. Driver also discusses her unconventional childhood, being left to fend for herself in Miami as an 11 year old, sexism and misogyny in the film industry, and the teacher who inspired her.
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| 0:00.0 | Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy. |
| 0:05.1 | My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC. |
| 0:08.7 | It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, |
| 0:13.5 | moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous. |
| 0:19.1 | And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music |
| 0:21.7 | means we can tell those stories like no one else. |
| 0:24.5 | We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative. |
| 0:28.6 | So whether you want an insightful take on music right now |
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| 0:40.2 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:46.2 | Hello, I'm Kirsty Young. Welcome to Young again, the podcast that asks fascinating people, |
| 0:51.8 | what advice would you give your younger self? |
| 0:55.0 | My guest today is an actor, writer, musician who has beaten her own unique path through the thickets of the entertainment industry, |
| 1:02.7 | fashioning a 30-year-long career and a voice that appears undimmed by the vagaries of Hollywood. |
| 1:08.9 | I've just finished reading her beautifully written memoir and as a result, |
| 1:13.5 | I don't know, I have about 300 questions I'd like to ask. So let's crack on. In this edition of Young |
| 1:18.2 | Again, I am in conversation with Minnie Driver. You said Minnie that someone once gave you the advice, |
| 1:25.1 | don't look back, never look back. |
| 1:29.7 | How comfortable are you examining your past? |
| 1:34.6 | I think it depends on what day you catch me. |
| 1:41.0 | Some days it feels safe to look back and not feel that anything was lost. |
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