Alan Cumming
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Minnie questions Alan Cumming, actor, singer, and director. Alan and Minnie discuss the many times they’ve shared the screen together, how Alan’s dog wound up in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (and replaced the Queen), and how his life was shaped by his relationship with his father.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. I got a call in the post office from my agent in London going, |
| 0:19.6 | I want to see you for a Bond film. |
| 0:21.2 | Oh my God. |
| 0:22.4 | And I was like, oh, am I going to be a Bond film? or wherever you get your podcast. I got a call in the post office from my agent in London going, |
| 0:39.0 | they want to see you for a Bond film. |
| 0:40.2 | Oh my God. |
| 0:35.3 | And I was like, oh, am I going to be a Bond girl? And she was like, no, you don't fuck anyone and you don't kill anyone, so you're not a Bond girl. You just sing a country and Western song. I was like, great, I'm in, I'm in. And then you were in Golden Eye too. |
| 0:35.8 | That's right. |
| 0:37.9 | Actually, my God, look what I've got. |
| 0:38.8 | It's next to me here. |
| 0:40.9 | A Golden Eye Pinball machine. |
| 1:27.5 | You're on it. You're on it. Wait, you bastard. I've seen one of these. I'm on the fucking pinball machine. Wait a minute. Where are you? Oh, there you are. Oh, my God. I made it on the pinball machine. Oh, I'm underneath you. Okay, Alan, I can't even believe it. I can't believe that you have the pinball machine. And I also know the other thing about that film is that it's a video game. I didn't know about that until years later. And I had an assistant called Landon at the time and I said, Land, I'm in a video game he was like, yeah, I know. |
| 1:28.9 | If you piss me off, I go home and shoot you in the balls. |
| 1:36.9 | Hello, I'm Mini Driver |
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