Minnie Driver
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What do you feel the meaning of life is? Purpose? Happiness? Does it matter if we’re not sure? In this chat, Fearne and actor Minnie Driver explore how it might gently fluctuate as we go through different stages of our lives.
Minnie also talks about her innate ability to articulate emotion, something that was often agony during her childhood, but has now allowed her to parent her own son in a deeply empathetic way.
Minnie’s memoir(ish) is out now; it’s called Managing Expectations.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that breaks down life's big |
| 0:07.5 | questions so they don't feel quite so overwhelming. Today I am chatting to mini-driver. |
| 0:14.7 | My mum dying suddenly the temporal nature of life. I know we know that but I didn't |
| 0:20.8 | know it. I just didn't know it. And now the idea that there is sort of an end, there is |
| 0:27.2 | like a sort of ultimate horizon. Weirdly, just made me, I've just appreciate all of it. |
| 0:34.4 | The stuff that feels distant, the stuff that feels close up, the stuff I can't quite reach, |
| 0:39.7 | the stuff that is here and now. It all feels like it is just part of this whole experiential |
| 0:45.9 | enterprise that is living and being alive. Mini is an actor and a singer but most importantly, |
| 0:51.8 | she's a storyteller. She's obviously told the stories of the characters she's played, |
| 0:56.8 | beautifully over the years but it's the story she tells about her own life that I think |
| 1:02.6 | are the most fascinating. Those are the ones she's written in her memoir, Ish, Managing Expectations. |
| 1:10.1 | Many came round to mind a couple of weeks ago, which let me tell you was surreal and we went |
| 1:15.2 | very deep quite quickly in this chat. I love talking to her about what she feels the meaning |
| 1:21.4 | of life is and I think we actually came to a really hopeful, peaceful conclusion. We also talked |
| 1:27.8 | about how she feels, understanding her own bigger motions has helped her better parent her son, |
| 1:33.8 | which I found so interesting because it's so important to get to know ourselves so that we |
| 1:38.7 | can be happier but also so we can show up in a more positive way for the people we love to. |
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