Minnie Driver

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Jameela welcomes actress Minnie Driver (About a Boy, Good Will Hunting) for a vulnerable and candid conversation about modern parenting, the superpower of growing older, and what #metoo and #timesup did and didn’t change for her and her peers working in Hollywood. You’ll also hear some sage and life changing advice she received from Carrie Fisher and plenty more. Listen to Minnie's podcast Minnie Questions where you find your podcasts and follow her @driverminnie

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0:00.0	Mini Driver love of my life.
0:07.0	Love of my life.
0:10.0	Hello, welcome to I-Way. How are you?
0:12.0	I'm all right. I love that I'm the lover for your life. That's great.
0:16.0	I won't tell James.
0:17.6	Yes, James knows. James knows that you are the benchmark that he has always been trying to live up to. He resents you massively. You should
0:26.6	never meet. Never be in the same room because he will fight you. He doesn't care that you're all
0:30.9	and I'll fight him. I'd love to fight him. You're both really tall. I think it could actually be quite a good fight.
0:36.7	How have you been, mate? I've been all right. I mean, you know, dealing with the con, really feels like still dealing with the fallout of COVID, really weirdly, not the, not the disease itself, but the long-reaching effects of it in the people around me that I love in myself like this it
0:58.4	really um it feels like it hammered that isolation hammered so many people that I love.
1:04.8	Right.
1:05.8	So yeah, but other than that, you know, all right, trying to be as present as possible,
1:11.8	dealing with my new aligners, which are making me lisp, so apologies for that, everyone.
1:17.1	That's all right. It's funny, like, so because over the course of the pandemic, I started this
1:21.5	podcast at like sort of week one of lockdown or something week to of lockdown and we went through a period of people wanting to talk about it and then by about 2022 people were like no one wants to hear about the pandemic anymore everyone wants to move on from it but now what I'm finding is that we get to
1:36.3	2024 and people feel not gaslit but almost a bit like the lack of ability to talk about it and us kind of moving on from it as staunchly as we have, almost as if it never happened, is making then some people feel like they should blame themselves for whatever hangover they've still got because
1:55.8	we're not talking about the fact that by 2022 we could not possibly have processed what had happened
2:01.2	because it was very much so still. So it's only now that the
2:05.5	impacts are starting to like really hit us and we're not talking about it and then
2:10.7	all these Tik-Tocks are just about like putting up more and more boundaries or doing this or doing that and there's like a lot of pathologizing happening but no one really talking about the sort of collective grief or collective.
2:23.0	I mean, for some people it really was incredibly traumatic.
2:27.0	I wasn't isolated because I live in a house with all my flatmates,
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