Jameela Jamil
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Minnie questions Jameela Jamil, actor, activist, and podcaster. Jameela shares how a Nat King Cole song changed her idea of love, how breaking her back as a teenager led to the greatest year of her life, and why she will feel generally pretty good about herself as long as she can pee without help.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | You know what? I always wanted my whole life. |
| 0:10.4 | I always wanted my voice to sound like yours. |
| 0:12.2 | I realized that when you were talking, I was like, I've just loved your. |
| 0:15.1 | We always call it a dirty laugh, which is so awful of the English and sexist. |
| 0:19.0 | My mother, she was like, you have to hear this actress |
| 0:21.2 | laugh. She was like, she's the dirtiest laugh I've ever heard. And she introduced me to your laugh. |
| 0:26.5 | It is a dirty laugh. My dad and my mother both had dirty laugh. So I've got the genetic |
| 0:31.8 | coding for filthy laugh. Double dirty. Yeah. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. |
| 0:41.7 | I've always loved Proust's questionnaire. |
| 0:45.4 | It was originally an 19th century parlor game, |
| 0:48.3 | where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other player's true nature. |
| 0:52.2 | In asking different people the same set of questions, |
| 0:55.1 | you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. |
| 0:58.8 | And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? |
| 1:03.0 | What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters? |
| 1:08.3 | So I adapted Proust questionnaire, and I wrote my own seven questions |
| 1:12.1 | that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are, when and where were you |
| 1:16.7 | happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or |
| 1:21.9 | fictionalized defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person, place or experience has |
| 1:29.2 | shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's |
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