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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Constance Wu

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions Constance Wu, actress and author. Constance shares lessons from the one teacher who believed in her, the love story she had to step away from, and why her daughter isn’t fooled by empty La Croix cans.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:05.0

There's something about a fitted sheet.

0:06.5

It feels personal and it also feels just like bad design

0:10.0

and that nobody thought it through

0:12.0

and that there were all kinds of ramifications that piss me off.

0:15.0

I've looked up on the internet how to do it and I guess there's a way

0:19.0

but it's not really exactly how I would want it to be.

0:22.9

No, it's not neat.

0:26.1

Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. Welcome to Mini Questions Season 2. I've always loved Proust's

0:32.9

questionette. It was originally an 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions

0:39.8

aimed at revealing the other player's true nature.

0:43.3

It's just the scientific method, really.

0:46.2

In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make observations about which

0:51.2

truths appear to be universal.

0:52.9

I love this discipline.

0:55.1

And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point?

0:59.2

What greater depths would be revealed if I ask these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines?

1:08.6

So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own seven questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story.

1:15.4

They are.

1:16.3

When and where were you happiest?

1:18.0

What is the quality you like least about yourself?

1:20.7

What relationship real or fictionalized defines love for you?

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