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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Courteney Cox

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions Courteney Cox, star of Friends, Scream, Shining Vale, and more. Courteney shares why her temporary breakup with partner made their relationship stronger, why she’s more interested in where we come from than where we’re going, and tells the story of a steak on her Instagram.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:08.0

Were you out and about at the weekend at all?

0:10.5

Or did you just stay home?

0:11.7

I never am out and about.

0:14.4

I go out.

0:16.5

I mean, I don't like going out.

0:18.3

And then when I do, it's usually to one restaurant.

0:20.6

And that's it.

0:23.1

Hello, I'm Minnie Driver.

0:25.5

I've always loved Proust's questionnaire.

0:27.9

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

0:34.0

aimed at revealing the other player's true nature.

0:39.6

In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. And it made me

0:45.0

wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed

0:50.5

if I asked these questions as conversation starters. So I adapted Proust questionnaire,

0:56.1

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

1:00.7

They are, when and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself?

1:06.1

What relationship real or fictionalized defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person, place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honored and humbled to have had the

1:29.8

chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all seven of these questions. We've whittled

1:35.3

it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising or created

1:41.9

the most fertile ground to connect.

1:45.2

My guest today is the actor Courtney Cox.

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