Mother’s Day with Minnie Driver
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This Mother’s Day, a special talk with actor Minnie Driver. On the heels of her debut essay collection Managing Expectations, she discusses the role of luck (3:40), her bifurcated upbringing (5:12) and how it shaped her view of motherhood (11:28).
As we walk through the 1970s, Minnie describes discovering acting in boarding school (12:00), her proclivity for running away (13:02), the story of her performance (16:05), the aftermath of Circle of Friends (21:16), an unnerving series of commercial auditions in her 20s (21:16) and what they taught her about misogyny in Hollywood (30:32).
On the back-half, she tells a tender story from the making of Good Will Hunting (35:06), the media pressure she faced following the film (40:40), finding refuge in songwriting (43:10), and how having her son, Henry, changed her course (46:20). To close, we sit with her mother’s final days (54:10) and how she defines love at age 52 (57:52).
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Remnickin each week on the New Yorker radio hour. My colleagues and I |
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| 0:22.0 | To get the context behind events in the news, climate change and many more. |
| 0:22.5 | To get the context behind events in the news, |
| 0:25.3 | listen to the New Yorker radio hour, |
| 0:27.5 | wherever you get your podcast. Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam for actor and author Minnie Driver. |
| 1:15.0 | Over the past 25 years, she's been a force in films like Circle of Friends, Big Night, Goodwill |
| 1:21.0 | Hunting, Gross Point Blank, owning Mahoney, and Motherhood. |
| 1:25.4 | She's also done excellent work on television in everything from Will and Grace to Modern Love. |
| 1:31.5 | As of late, she has two new projects. The first is called Many Questions with |
| 1:36.7 | Many Driver. It's a podcast in which she poses seven big questions inspired by the famous Proust questionnaire. |
| 1:44.0 | If you're so inclined, I went on our show earlier this year, |
| 1:48.0 | you can listen to that wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:51.0 | Before you jump into mine, listen to her episode with Viola Davis. |
| 1:55.4 | It's really, really excellent. |
| 1:57.4 | And then you can listen to mine. |
| 1:58.4 | I just want to come second to Viola. |
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